Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now doubtless to some people this is an everyday situation and so they have no problems in tackling it as a mathematical exercise . |
| 2 | You have to catch it on a certain place |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law . |
| 10 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 11 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 12 | Going it alone in difficult times is not to be recommended , but if you wish to try it for a few weeks then there is no harm done , simply time lost if you are unsuccessful . |
| 13 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
| 14 | ‘ You do n't see a carpenter saying he wo n't build a house because he does n't like what 's next door and he 's going to wait until there 's a house with 8.3 rooms and the sun has it at a certain angle and then he 'll pound his nails and he wants billing above the plumber . ’ |
| 15 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 16 | Stonehenge still has a very special air in spite of the official attempts to destroy the place ; York Minster has it , and Chartres has it to an incredible extent . |
| 17 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 18 | A bailor has it against a mere bailee at pleasure even if he never himself had actual possession of the goods and only acquired title by virtue of an illegal but completely executed contract of sale . |
| 19 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 20 | More the kind of face-lift marketing men give an old product when launching it with a new package , less a shift of political culture and strategy rooted in the configurations of modern social change . |
| 21 | Since launching it in the late 1980s , Microsoft has sold over 25m copies . |
| 22 | If it 's not , you can turn the old one upside down and replace it as a temporary measure until you get the right one . |
| 23 | As early as February 1920 Trotsky had put before the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party a plan to end grain requisitioning and replace it with a fixed tax in kind ; also to allow the peasants to sell their surpluses on the ( to be revived ) market . |
| 24 | Labour 's manifesto was also launched and Mr. Kinnock promised to abolish the Community Charge immediately and replace it with a modified version of the old rates system based on ability to pay . |
| 25 | Never leave a chip pan unattended ; better still , replace it with a thermostatically-controlled deep fryer . |
| 26 | Many public librarians therefore prefer to discard a damaged book and replace it with a new copy of the same title or with another book altogether . |
| 27 | Scott Bader are to close their Stratford Road premises in Birmingham and replace it with a new centre backing onto the Merryhill Estate in Brierley Hill . |
| 28 | A PROPOSAL to demolish the bungalow at Wyards Farm , Basingstoke Road , Alton and replace it with a new home has been agreed by district planners . |
| 29 | To upgrade to multiple CPUs and new , faster microprocessors including the 50MHz SuperSparc when it is available in volume , users can pull out the Sparc module and replace it with a new one . |
| 30 | ( including taxes and the cost of accessories ) at the date the damage occurred and such loss or damage is insured under this Policy the Corporation will subject to the consent of the Policyholder and of any other interested party known to the Corporation replace it with a new motor car of the same manufacture and model subject to its being available in which event the Corporation shall become entitled to possession and ownership of the lost or damaged motor car . |