Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible for a company or group to acquire further ACT capacity by purchasing a company that has it . |
| 2 | Just look at that ( stabbing a piece and holding it up in mid-air ) . |
| 3 | Season to taste with salt and white pepper , then cover the sauce with greaseproof paper to prevent it from forming a skin and allow it to cool completely . |
| 4 | Hence , another key aspect of spatial user interface design is that it must seek both to structure and filter human perception of space and spatial relationships when expressing an operation and passing it to a GIS . |
| 5 | Now work out the following by forming an equation and solving it as shown in the last example . |
| 6 | This involved designing a questionnaire and applying it to quantitative observations of a sample of companies in the same type of industry in each country . |
| 7 | The difference is that , with the invention of new techniques , the gap between postulating an entity and identifying it physically is much shorter than it was in Mendel 's case . |
| 8 | Just as at Northampton he questioned the merit of the Southern League after shaping a team that mastered it , so after his later Championship triumphs at Huddersfield and Arsenal , he was to question the league system that was the framework of those triumphs . |
| 9 | He feinted left , drawing a punch and slipping it , then played the bluff and went in fast , going left again . |
| 10 | that you would be allowed to do notes drawing a note and use it . |
| 11 | At night , a person may not be able to get out of bed in time , or they will dislike using a bedpan or find it difficult and messy . |
| 12 | I mean , that 's just a , a brief using a frame and re-cutting it . |
| 13 | Extracting water from deeper aquifers involves drilling a well and lining it with slotted steel or PVC pipes surrounded by a packing of pea-sized gravel . |
| 14 | He recalled once buying a foal and taking it home on the bus ! |
| 15 | It just means buying a telephone and plugging it in . |
| 16 | ‘ If they keep their bikes in garages , they should consider removing a wheel and putting it in the house . |
| 17 | As casualties occur you can remove any of the models fighting and replace them with any models from a rearward rank — so you can change the ratio of nets to clubs by , say removing a club and replacing it with a net . |
| 18 | It 's a technique of scanning an image and enlarging it through a battery of airbrushes controlled by a computer . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll be faced with enormous problems but it 's a matter of having a dream and following it through . ’ |
| 20 | Just the strange things that again you know it 's it 's having an idea and recognizing it that it would be useful . |
| 21 | The New Hall collection , though primarily painted works made for hanging , extends these preoccupations : Laura Godfrey-Isaacs 's ‘ Fleshy Face ’ meditates on the feminine-coded colour pink with mordant hyperbole ; Judith Cowan 's ‘ Skin and Blister ’ ( rhyming slang for ‘ sister ’ ) transforms a common saucepan into an authoritative sculptural form ; Maggi Hambling takes a shocking newspaper image of a Gulf woman in a chador wielding a bazooka and suffuses it again with blooming pink , the garish , violated hue of feminine cosiness . |
| 22 | On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles . |
| 23 | Decisions are usually reached by consensus , rather than by a senior manager taking a decision and selling it or imposing it on his subordinates . |
| 24 | After fornication with a woman then the one who would join would show his love of the Unholy by taking a child and killing it . |
| 25 | I think the idea of taking a fox and having it ripped apart legitimized by our society is a bad message to pass onto our children ! |
| 26 | Just slipping and dropping a wing while loading it into the trailer will cause hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage , and although most gliders are insured , every accident eventually results in higher premiums and higher costs for gliding enthusiasts . |
| 27 | ‘ If I can give a player an extra metre it 's the difference between winning a ball and losing it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Nice one , Greg ! ’ chortles the yellow shirt , folding a bra and putting it back in the drawer . |
| 29 | Still he knelt in front of her , and Maria sat forward , lifting a hand and laying it open-palmed against the side of his face for a moment before tracing the angle of his cheek with gentle fingers . |
| 30 | When Jesus is arrested in Gethsemane , at least one of his followers is actually carrying a sword and uses it to lop off the ear of an attendant of the High Priest ; in the Fourth Gospel , the man with the sword is specifically identified as Simon Peter . |