Example sentences of "'s [adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem of transforming Darwin 's pangenetic theory to square it with cytology in general , and with Weismann 's theory in particular , was taken up most systematically by De Vries ; and later developments leading to the theory of the gene were to owe much to his solution : ‘ intracellular pangenesis ’ . |
| 2 | A strategy set out in this format does not guarantee good advertising : that depends on the ability of the creative team , helped by the rest of agency account group , to produce a good idea ; on the ability of agency and client to recognize it as such : and the team 's combined ability to turn it into a real , working campaign . |
| 3 | There seemed no going back on it without having to retail some further lie and anyway I was sick at heart — without The Fat Controller 's gyroscopic girth to encompass it my world was spinning out of control . |
| 4 | He has yet to receive his cheque but has received a letter from BR 's legal department to say it is on its way . |
| 5 | The first thing that strikes you about this program is Top Level 's evident desire to make it as friendly as possible . |
| 6 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 7 | PAUL STEWART is now a 2.3 million midfield player at Liverpool but he is the first to admit it needed a referee 's red card to make it all happen . |
| 8 | In February , it swept past Jupiter with British instruments on board , harnessing the planet 's gravitational field to hurl it into an orbit enabling study of the poles of the Sun in 1994–95 . |
| 9 | Alan snatched up an osier basket and hung it on the cockerel 's rusty head to hide it . |