Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the candidate has , in a sense , asked for it by choosing to enter the precarious and high-profile world of politics , the husband or wife in the wings has every right to feel resentful . |
| 2 | He once remarked that good prose is like a window-pane , meaning that you ought to be able to see through it without seeing it ; and anyone who has ever tried to write prose like that , or to see human creatures in life or fiction like Waugh 's early fictional characters , will know how much clutter of mind and words needs first to be cleared away . |
| 3 | of course some companies do this and one or two manage to benefit from it by sending out a different type ) f product from their range each year . |
| 4 | I had come upon it in thumbing through The Writers and Artists Yearbook ; it seems to have been an Anglo-Catholic journal . |
| 5 | Beyond town , beyond the extraordinary cemetery for the pioneers who had created the place and the Indians who had tried to frustrate them , and once the shanties had petered out , the Patagonian landscape was flat and treeless and the gale howled across it without ceasing . |
| 6 | Do n't think of it as taking away one thinking of it , think of it as minus one , a number . |
| 7 | You can think of it as sharing it out between people , share that ten pound out between ten of you . |
| 8 | I could not be happy doing that , but as a pop singer I was in my element , because really all I d I did n't even think of it as singing , I thought of it , when I performed on stage as a pop singer I just thought of of it really of making love to the audience . |
| 9 | and say well think of the conductance , do n't think of it as resisting and stopping the water , how much can it get along and get through ? |
| 10 | They made it respectable to talk about it by linking grants with the proper adoption of equal opportunity policies . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For instance , the whole of the letter A could be keyboarded from OED , and then the whole of the Supplement 's A section could be merged into it before proceeding to B , and so on . |
| 13 | We would take some convincing that it can be right to depart from it by punishing more harshly than an offender ‘ deserves ’ on a standard tariff , for example by sentencing an offender to an exceptionally long custodial sentence for purposes of reform or incapacitation . |
| 14 | It seems too that analogizing is so deeply involved not only in thinking but in perception that there is no hope of escaping from it by isolating pure observations from which induction can start . |
| 15 | We shall refer to it in examining the various operations that can be carried out sequentially . |
| 16 | BSDI bases its claims of no-licence-required on representations made to it in writing by the University 's Computer Systems Research Group . |
| 17 | Can you see it by looking at it without touching it ? |
| 18 | Doctors protect themselves against even the remote possibility of failing to spot a disease and being sued for it by sending their patients for every test in the book . |
| 19 | Much also depends on the seating positions and whether the pilot is expecting the extra ‘ g ’ and prepares for it by tensing himself up . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Raindrops hit the surface of the road and danced upon it like spinning coins . |
| 24 | In the ‘ free chase ’ of Knaresborough , which had been assigned to Queen Isabella for life , they made an unauthorized perambulation and acted upon it by felling trees , planting hedges , and hunting the deer without warrant . |
| 25 | Traditionally a signet ring , with a family crest engraved on it for marking wax seals , was the only jewellery worn by a man . |
| 26 | She listened in silence while the girl , who insisted on being called Claire because , she explained , people viewed her profession with enough scepticism without her adding to it by adopting some theatrical and phoney title , informed her that she had managed to prepare her birth chart . |
| 27 | Living artists would keep adding to it by making contributions from their works . |
| 28 | Boys would come from as far away as Shepherd 's Bush and Bayswater to play on it between fighting rival gangs . |
| 29 | His Metropole is a Cathedral of such awe- inspiring magnificence that no one can look at it without feeling he is in the presence of a concept beyond human scale . |
| 30 | 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 . |