Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun sg] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demands to abandon an existing shibboleth in order to replace it with an even older one . |
| 2 | Keeping in moisture to protect it against all manner of evils . |
| 3 | GUIL : ( Returning in time to take it up ) But with much forcing of his disposition . |
| 4 | I was told that the money that was threatened for housing associations which was an important element in structure , the government has in fact included it in the forthcoming budget , so that is encouraging , that aspect of it . |
| 5 | These various substantives evoke a state or quality which disposes the support to perform an action ( willingness , desire , impudence , ability , etc. ) , an action he performs which prevents or could prevent him from realizing it ( hesitation , refusal , reluctance , etc. ) , something he needs in order to realize it ( right , permission ) , a circumstance in which he finds himself which favours something 's occurrence ( chance , occasion ) , etc. — all of which evoke a situation existing before the infinitive event , and so imply a reference to a prior position of the support . |
| 6 | Now on the seventeenth of September Mr met Peter on the defendant 's firm er for the first time at his office , where they had er a general discussion about the business and about what needed to be done in order to secure it and er the plaintiffs at that stage told Peter that there should be er no problems over finance as he understood the bank were willing to assist and at that stage he wanted to move as quickly as possible to exchange contracts on the business erm , for two reasons . |
| 7 | It was a problem as early as I Thessalonians which was partly written in order to meet it . |
| 8 | And the system 's built in intelligence enables it to cross check files . |
| 9 | ‘ Some pupils came in time to like it ; not simply because the outbursts were part of Lewis ‘ act ’ , but because he was conscientious teacher , who was concerned , as the Great Knock had been , to wage war on sloppy language and sloppy thinking . |
| 10 | Judging from entries made in burial registers it appears that three days was the average length of delay . |
| 11 | Cornwall and Devon have some of the hilliest countryside in the country , and the agility of a mountain goat is needed in order to traverse it — hardly suitable for someone who is elderly , and may well become frail . |
| 12 | ‘ In this landscape so wondrous , a tingling anticipation embraces us and we run in delight to receive it . ’ |
| 13 | To this end it announced that the electoral commission was to be reconstituted in order to free it from political influence and manipulation . |
| 14 | Her party dress was alongside , bagged in polythene to protect it from dust . |
| 15 | Once it spreads into other functions , it acquires what we usually call ‘ prestige ’ , in the sense that those who wish to advance in life consider it to be in their interests to use standard-like forms . |
| 16 | McDonnell Douglas Corp has given up on its idea of floating its McDonnell Douglas Information Systems International Ltd Pick and Pick-under-Unix business on the London International Stock Exchange , and instead has agreed in principle to sell it to its management , who will retain effective day-to-day control , backed by a few blue-chip investors including Baring Capital Investors Ltd . |
| 17 | However , I would suggest that this is due more to luck than judgement , having noticed that the nut has been heavily shimmed in order to raise it , compensating for string slots which are cut much too deeply . |
| 18 | About half the rear of the guitar is covered by shielded black plastic ; this includes the battery compartment which houses a single PP3 battery , wrapped in foam to stop it rattling around . |
| 19 | It should be stored in the fridge , wrapped in foil to keep it moist . |
| 20 | It , too , must now be separately assessed in order to distinguish it from that part of general damages that bears interest — namely , damages for pain and suffering and loss of amenities ( Pickett v British Rail Engineering Limited [ 1980 ] AC 136 ) . |
| 21 | It is clear that the narrower a pulse becomes , the greater the bandwidth a system must possess in order to handle it properly . |
| 22 | Love You and your partner face new challenges in your relationship — use them as a way of finding out just how deep your feelings are for each other , and how much you are prepared to sacrifice in order to make it work . |
| 23 | But first the causes of the Famine should be given in order to put it in perspective . |
| 24 | To return to your educational interests , what sort of changes would you like to see in education to make it more applicable , perhaps , to twentieth century women ? |
| 25 | Amongst these must be the facility to zoom in and out of text , all at an editable level , such that you can magnify , say , three point text to take up as much of the screen as you choose , or , conversely , diminish 72 point text to as small as you can read in order to edit it . |
| 26 | So in the two things that can happen in conversation to give it To make it stop running smoothly are overlapping and interruption and like some of them are quite difficult to tell apart but usually it 's If you 're transcribing stuff it 's fairly obvious . |
| 27 | If an object is annexed to land in order to enjoy it as a chattel ( eg a carpet nailed to the floor ) it will not become a fixture but will remain a chattel . |
| 28 | It must then be updated in order to associate it with the name and issue number of the product package for which it is to provide a reference . |
| 29 | And just think of the calculations involved when a fielder runs to catch a cricket ball — he does n't necessarily realise he is doing it but he has to work out how high the ball is , how fast it is travelling , its precise direction and how quickly he has to run in order to catch it . |
| 30 | It is with the legitimacy of this discretion , and particularly with the form that the rules of company law should take in order to control it in the public interest , that this book is principally concerned . |