Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karajan ( DG ) has often been taken to task from making an adagio meal of Shostakovich 's andante here , but Flor turns it into a snail 's banquet ( beautiful Concertgebouw wind playing notwithstanding ) . |
| 2 | We have to put a shelf mark on the books so that we can shelve the book , but that tells us quite a lot about the subject , and if you start putting those three things together the librarian , as manager of his library , can start to put all this information together — in fact , the computer digests it for him — to give him an overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 3 | In fact the computer digests it for him to give him and overview of how effective his operation is , when he should be buying extra copies , when perhaps he should be thinking of not buying quite so much , or being a little more selective . |
| 4 | Thus the term irony is used in something approaching its usual acceptance when Brooks associates it with Yeats 's appeal to the Greek sages in ‘ Sailing to That Yeats should speak of the ‘ artifice of eternity ’ evidently undermines in a sense the appearance of passion and sincerity with which he invokes the Greek sages , and thus can be said to bring about a kind of ironic reconciliation between his aspiration of a life free from Nature , and his rational awareness of his human limitations ( Brooks 1949 : 173 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ At the end of the day , a system is only as good as the user wants it to be , ’ says Peterborough Software 's David Laking . |
| 6 | Printer Sharing is handled in much the same way — the owner makes a printer available , and a remote user specifies it as a network printer in the Printers control panel , attaching it to , say , LPT3 on his own machine . |
| 7 | I 'm just not persuaded Marcus has it in him to be at that level of intensity ’ |
| 8 | Radon occurs naturally in rocks such as granite , and can move readily through porous rock and soil and can seep into buildings causing dangerous concentrations to accumulate ( inhaling radon causes it to be deposited in the lungs so increasing the risks of lung cancer ) . |
| 9 | According to the 1929 Encyclopaedia Britannica , one theory of consciousness holds it to be inherent in every atom of the body . |
| 10 | Some scientific ‘ wets ’ will not want to soil their hands with ‘ blood money ’ ; but in these days of financial stringency , every professor owes it to his department to get in there and pitch for Pentagon pennies . |
| 11 | And David says it for all of us , I was born in sin and shapen in inequity . |
| 12 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 13 | And the partnership 's life is a short as a task completed or as long as a connected , improving spiral of programme sustains it through renewal . |
| 14 | Two versions of the tune appear in the collections of Captain Francis O'Neill of the Chicago Police , a contemporary of Honeyman , and Alastair Hardie includes it in his Caledonian Companion , where he acknowledges its publication in Kohler 's Violin Repository of 1885 . |
| 15 | The social stigma of alcoholism sees it as a disgrace rather than a disease that is beyond the control of the sufferer and for this reason ( and their own " denial " — which will be explained later ) friends and family may be reluctant to accept the true nature of the diagnosis . |
| 16 | The infliction of pain upon a horse affects it in a very profound way . |
| 17 | Susan Clements borrows it for discussing some issues to do with drug and alcohol teams . |
| 18 | Handy Andy swings it for Blues |
| 19 | A bit of a luck break there off Oldfield takes it to Collimore . |
| 20 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |
| 21 | Each side takes it in turn to bat . |
| 22 | This appears reactionary because Freud states it in such general , ahistorical terms . |
| 23 | Andy clears a way through the undergrowth and we drag the man beneath the thorns and soft fruit of the brambles and the glossy leaves of the rhodies , into the green darkness ; his rucksack catches on the branches above and Andy takes it off him , pushing it ahead of us . |
| 24 | The second exception was established in Tuberville v. Stamp where it was held that liability extended to a fire originating in a field as much as to one beginning in a house , but if the defendant kindles it at a proper time and place and the violence of the wind carry it to his neighbour 's land , that is fit to be given in evidence . |
| 25 | Like Grisone , they believe that the horse regards it as a reward when the rider or handler stops punishing it ! |
| 26 | Defoe mentions it in his Northern Tour , 1724 . |
| 27 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
| 28 | Given the analysis as Freud presents it in Group Psychology , however , there is no reason why this should occur between members of different sects of the same world religion . |
| 29 | My cousin from Coleraine sends it to me , may God bless her and keep her . |
| 30 | The label on the tin recommends it for church furniture and floors ’ . |