Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scrapes it round the edge of the light metal ashtray until the tip of the fag is a perfect cone , then smokes it carefully . |
| 2 | A superficially similar case may differ from this one in some subtle matter of detail the relevance of which we will only recognize when we encounter it in the concrete . |
| 3 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a license to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-on-Unix package . |
| 4 | The much-rumoured pact will see Insignia admit it has a licence to Windows source code and the right to modify it at the application programming interface level to improve the performance of SoftPC , its Windows-under-Unix package . |
| 5 | I might have to modify it in the light of circumstances . |
| 6 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 7 | I mean she loves it with the kids |
| 8 | Now doubtless to some people this is an everyday situation and so they have no problems in tackling it as a mathematical exercise . |
| 9 | He insisted on tackling it with a knife and fork . |
| 10 | I admit my man was out of order tackling it in the way he did , for which he will be disciplined , I assure you . ’ |
| 11 | I think the game I think the game has done well in tackling that problem but I do n't think we as a society have done very well in tackling it in the country at large . |
| 12 | You have to catch it on a certain place |
| 13 | Accounting for the use of this form in any context will always imply relating the particular meaning actualized in the context to the permanent potential significate postulated for it in tongue , and will consequently involve : ( 1 ) showing that the common denominator of a before/after sequence is present ( the constant element evoked by to ) , and ( 2 ) showing how the speaker has fit the particular experience he is talking about into this potential by intercepting the operation of actualizing it at the appropriate moment ( the variable element expressed by to ) . |
| 14 | These become almost like rituals as the cat grows older — little routines that reward the animal because they involve it in a social interaction with its owners or their guests . |
| 15 | It has seized and deformed it , in each region twisting it into a latent value-system which , put into an abstract , depersonalized form , has in one place produced the French revolutionary ideal , in another Anglo-Saxon liberalism , elsewhere communism , Muslim fundamentalism , social democracy , Buddhist socialism , and many other secondary forms . |
| 16 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 17 | She drove the corkscrew in , twisting it like a knife in an enemy , stretching her shoulders back and pulling , with no result . |
| 18 | The big hand was on my neck again , twisting it like the focus grip of some humanoid camera . |
| 19 | He drove the corkscrew forward , burying it in the man 's right eye , shoving down hard on it , twisting it in the socket , ignoring the spouting vitreous liquid that erupted from the riven orb . |
| 20 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 21 | It seemed to be standing in the snow , a little metal cap protecting it against the biting breeze , but as we approached closer , my stomach turned . |
| 22 | Our pattern will be displayed as we originally designed it in the Fair Isle option , but we are about to make some changes . |
| 23 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 24 | If we want to see the glory of God ( which no man can do in all its unmediated radiance , and live , Exod. 33:20 ) then we must seek it in the person of Jesus . |
| 25 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 26 | Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate . |
| 27 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 28 | Only decent thing in the room , if you ask me ; he must have won it in a raffle . |
| 29 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 30 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |