Example sentences of "[vb base] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We can take the old sole off and replace it without changing the shape of the shoe or damaging the structure .
2 He said his party would abolish mortgage interest relief and replace it with housing cost relief so that tenants as well as house owners could benefit .
3 Then ice the whole thing and decorate it by drawing on doors and windows .
4 So it 's use the red obviously the title and the red 's for your introduction to say what you 're going to say then say it by using your greens and then say what you 've said by going back to the red and coming back to your objective .
5 ‘ Because you associate it with depriving yourself , I think you 've got to drop the word ‘ diet ’ from your vocabulary .
6 Any signatory of the convention is required to register a formal difference with the secretariat if its own laws preclude it from observing a standard while failure to implement a recommended practice only stimulates a request that the secretariat be informed .
7 To remove the drill , insert a drill drift into the slot in the spindle and tap it in using a hammer or piece of wood .
8 I solve it by pointing my eyes towards C , bringing my body into line with my eyes , and walking forwards .
9 They solve it by using some of their numbers as jars .
10 Combining the benefits of a budget account with a borrowing facility , the Revolving Budget Account helps to tackle unexpected bills and allows you to buy what you want when you want it without having to set up further loan arrangements .
11 This is placed between two staves and moved to wherever you want it by using the cursor keys .
12 Always inspect each hook closely before you use it ; test it for breaking or bending ; reduce or remove the barb where necessary , and work on it with a fine oil stone until it is as sharp as you can get it — this should not actually be necessary with the new chemically sharpened hooks .
13 Animals that are venomous secrete toxic matter and inject it by biting or stinging or by some other means .
14 ‘ And you show it by putting in for a transfer behind my back , ’ he roared , his face as black as thunder .
15 Indeed the only reason that modern living things are able to survive in the presence of oxygen , is that they contain a variety of compounds that prevent it from reacting with materials such as fats : compounds that include vitamins C and E , and uric acid .
16 Sludge — another corrosion by-product — can block the inlet or outlet to the radiator and prevent it from heating up .
17 Bell Atlantic Corp is asking the US Department of Justice to waive restrictions that prevent it from providing video programming services — it wants to provide the services across the US without regard to local access transport area boundaries of its local territory .
18 Part of the reasoning behind the move was the search for an effective policy to contain the violence within Ireland and prevent it from spreading to Britain .
19 These valves also serve to trap any water which may accidentally pass the blowhole , and thus prevent it from entering the lungs , which would cause choking or drowning .
20 Much of it is below sea level and only innumerable drainage ditches prevent it from reverting to its natural state .
21 At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity .
22 Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category .
23 Two reasons prevent it from continuing to provide this function .
24 The wetness of the rags does not accomplish much but the wood gets heated and the rags may insulate the hot wood and prevent it from cooling too quickly .
25 The Tunisian government confirmed on Sept. 11 that , while it stood by the unanimous March 1990 Arab League decision to transfer the headquarters to Cairo [ see p. 37334 ] , the move to speed up the transfer " could hamper this body and prevent it from shouldering its responsibility " .
26 On the global scale , the oceans that cover almost 70 per cent of the world prevent it from becoming intolerably hot by day , and freezing cold by night .
27 If private property is to be legitimate within the framework of a liberal society it is also necessary to show that there are constraints which prevent it from becoming a source of power which threatens the liberty of the individual or rivals the power of the state .
28 ‘ Is that what you mix it with to get crack ? ’
29 1 The trick of making eyes smoulder is to apply solid colour sparingly , then smudge and spread it by softening the edges .
30 Put it in writing as ammunition .
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