Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its alleged that Mr Middleton repeatedly whipped the animal to frighten it into jumping clear . |
| 2 | We are in negotiations with the local authority for planning permission , and we hope to obtain it for housing on some of that land . |
| 3 | The spate of recent disturbances , aggravated by high prices , housing shortages and the cut in food subsidies imposed during the Gulf war , led the government 's opponents to accuse it of ignoring the poor . |
| 4 | The champions refused to meet it after selling the 26-year-old to Blackburn for just £25,000 six years ago . |
| 5 | They argue , somewhat surprisingly , that it is a mistake to meet it by trying to ‘ upgrade the imagined simulation in hopes of finally winning Searle 's concession that at last its states have achieved intrinsic intentionality ’ . |
| 6 | The convenience of picking up a power-tool without having to plug it in has brought a new freedom to woodworkers . |
| 7 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 8 | I managed to absorb it without falling off the chair . |
| 9 | He said this , not because he thought it was likely she would tire herself , but because he was aware of a certain lack of sympathy in his own nature and tried , conscientiously , to redress it by saying the things other people said . |
| 10 | Where the PC has no real expanded RAM , using EMM386.EXE to provide it for cacheing is wasteful of resources . |
| 11 | So , some other understanding of alienation is required to validate it as the dynamic which establishes a proletariat and a property-owning bourgeoisie as Marx 's two antinomies predestined to engage in that life-and-death struggle ; and Marx seeks to provide it by postulating alienation as intrinsic . |
| 12 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 13 | She covered it with her hand immediately as if she was trying to hide it from prying eyes . |
| 14 | It was suspected that there must be a link between the murders and Dovaston set out to find it by devising a computer programme that could provide a statistical profile of who the murderer was likely to be . |
| 15 | ‘ In the end it 's all about the way you organise all your output and you have to relate it to satisfying the client , ’ Mulvie said . |
| 16 | Derrida himself , therefore , does not in any sense abjure history ( or totality ) but rather attempts to reinscribe it by writing histories that set up supplementary figures whose logic simultaneously invokes and works against historical totalities . |
| 17 | He had no doubt that his mother was in her bedroom and that if she heard him she would come into his room and it would start , he knew it would : the upbraiding of Martin , and he would n't be able to stand it without checking her . |
| 18 | There was also speculation that the delay was caused by Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley because she wanted to launch it after returning from a trip abroad . |
| 19 | Although it was once thought only Confucian scholars could outwit a kuei , a deterrent popular amongst all Chinese is to set it to solving a riddle . |
| 20 | And at least he could rely on Freeborn to answer it without initiating a philosophical discussion about the basis of the self . |
| 21 | Drucker ( 1985 ) , in writing about innovation , poses the question , ‘ How can managers expect to plan for — or count upon — a process that is itself so dependent on creativity , inspiration , and old-fashioned luck ? ’ and then goes on to answer it by saying ‘ There are , of course , innovations that spring from a flash of genius . |
| 22 | How close it approaches a food item is dependent on several factors , because the bream , in common with other bottom feeding fish , has the facility of extending lips which it uses to suck and blow a food item to clean it before consuming it . |
| 23 | For Germany now had the chance to bring her new strength of purpose to bear against her real enemy — at which point Nietzsche introduced a reinterpretation of politics in cultural and philosophical terms which was to become characteristic of his mature thinking : the " real enemy " was modern superficiality , and Germany 's chance was to destroy it by relearning " tragic cognition " from the Greeks . |
| 24 | When the area of tension stresses ahead of the crack tip reaches the interface , it will try to open it by pulling the two sides apart . |
| 25 | Rationalization refers to people 's efforts to construct an explanation for their fallibility which allows them to own it without feeling bad about it . |
| 26 | The problem is that , to speak of noise , to give it attributes , to claim things for it , is immediately to shackle it with meaning again , to make it part of culture . |
| 27 | He also felt that the evidence of abuse was unconvincing but given the involvement of other agencies in this area it was beyond his remit to challenge it in compiling his advice for the Statement . |
| 28 | However , its brain was minuscule and Hercules managed to trap it by pretending to be an army and getting the animal confused and tangled in foliage . |
| 29 | The lead manager would in turn invite a small additional group of banks to aid it in organising the issue ( the managing group ) . |
| 30 | Nor did most people who heard the record — some of them were tempted to buy it after seeing Ken in Cinderella . |