Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Paisley had based his assertion about the danger to himself on a warning from inside the security forces and this fact meant that he could not establish the credibility of it by revealing the source of his information . |
| 32 | I managed to avoid a lot of it by having some tasks of my own . |
| 33 | It would even be possible for people to watch a political or parliamentary debate at home on television , and then register their vote or opinion at the end of it by pressing a button or making a free phone-call . |
| 34 | After I 'd explained the problems , Mazzin tried to wriggle out of it by going on about blindfolds . |
| 35 | So , so the people that are not making any money out of it by doing it are selling it to them very cheap so it is their own fault ! |
| 36 | She tried to get out of it by standing up and stretching as if the conversation was threatening to bore her stiff . |
| 37 | Stewart could argue that it was little more than a playful cuff and Christophi certainly made a real meal of it by falling dramatically to the ground clutching his face . |
| 38 | Nicola took a run at the slope and gained a third of it before dropping nearly to all fours to grab at little ridges and tufts of grass . |
| 39 | The shifts in pace , in tone , in level , come at us without warning , so that even as one part of the brain tries to grasp at this or that , to make sense of it before moving on , the rest responds to the exhilaration of being swept along the verbal equivalent of a ghost railway . |
| 40 | Because of the vast range of the information potentially bearing on a decision individuals do not attempt to collect and assess all of it before deciding , but settle for a more manageable sample . |
| 41 | Whatever the specialised interests of visitors to this region , they can gain a reasonable general orientation of it before starting their particular excursions , by taking the 3 hour boat trip from Luzern to Fluelen or vice versa . |
| 42 | Gooch was so disillusioned by his last full tour to India that he barely unpacked his bags at home in Essex at the end of it before joining the first rebel tour to South Africa . |
| 43 | When you have to get up from a settee , it will take less effort if you first come to the edge of it before attempting to stand . |
| 44 | The man known as Helvetius might have produced gold which withstood the tests of assayers , but Bernard Trevisan was duped out of a fortune before finally performing the magnum opus , and Thomas Norton prepared the Elixir twice and was twice robbed of it before dying in poverty . |
| 45 | During field-work there was only one incident related to sexual abuse , and this was dealt with by policemen , and while they showed something of a blasé attitude towards it in feeling that the victim was ‘ hardly touched ’ and the offender ‘ did n't do anything anyway ’ ( FN 2/11/87 , pp. 5–6 ) , they pursued the case thoroughly . |
| 46 | There 's nothing like it for pushing the world aside . ’ |
| 47 | There 's nothing like it for losing sight of the real point . |
| 48 | When it was loose at night he gathered it in his hands and buried his face against it before kissing her , and it seemed to give him more satisfaction than the hurried , clumsy act of love which followed . |
| 49 | Not only that , as men of power , pillars of the community , they are most likely to believe that they can get away with it without getting caught . |
| 50 | But they 've gone along with it without recognising that there will be a cost and members opposite have consistently criticised the European parliament for having a number of buildings from which to operate . |
| 51 | We sense there is more to it than that , but we have not known how to come to grips with it without giving ammunition to our opponents . |
| 52 | for them do with it except to become governesses |
| 53 | Sam put the Madonna to his lips and made the sign of the Cross with it before putting the chain about his own neck . |
| 54 | Once you decide to get rid of a Windows application , it 's vital to make copies of any important data you 've created with it to make copies of any important data you 've created with it before embarking on a ‘ slash and burn ’ policy . |
| 55 | ‘ Clearly they hate each other 's company and they deal with it by looking away from each other . |
| 56 | The facts are that if you propose an idea , four times out of ten someone will take issue with it by pointing out snags and difficulties ( see Difficulty stating on page 52 ) . |
| 57 | Gilligan repeats this problem when she parcels up the unconscious and sexuality in a bundle with carer-infant relations , and deals with it by labelling it ‘ Chodorow ’ . |
| 58 | She had managed to cope with it by listening to the radio , playing tapes , even turning on breakfast television until its unremitting triviality had threatened to drive her even madder than she had felt herself going already . |
| 59 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 60 | But we see here how Jesus , apart from anything else , deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people . |