Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE organiser of a big karate competition in Whitby says he has no intention of giving it the chop after casualties kept the town 's hospital at full stretch . |
| 2 | Glen-Gery in the US and the pulp side should turn around this year but David Taylor at UBS Phillips & Drew thinks that by paying interest instead of receiving it the group will make a much-the-same £10m this time , and may cut dividends to 4p . |
| 3 | It 's got instant character , whereas a new guitar has n't had the years of beating on it and fiddling with to give it the character . |
| 4 | I sometimes wish I did n't think so much about what I do , and just pottered along doing it the way it 's always been done ( like the bloke in the next-door room does ! ) . |
| 5 | Now , I do n't know whether what other people would , would say about doing it the way we 're suggesting like somebody has completed levels one A , one B , and two A , therefore they 've got this and perhaps |
| 6 | Shame on the Ordnance Survey for giving it the name of Ingleborough Hill on some of their maps : it is every inch a mountain and , although not the highest in England as was once thought and is overtopped by many others , one of the grandest . |
| 7 | This will no doubt be welcome , but before accepting it the company should be sure that it is aware of all the consequences of doing so and can handle them . |
| 8 | This will no doubt be welcome , but before accepting it the company should be sure that it is aware of all the consequences of doing so and can handle them . |
| 9 | In reading it the cruelty is just about balanced by the extreme beauty of the lyrics and much of the dialogue , so that the total effect , tho ’ sinister , like a too bright dream which is sure to turn into nightmare before the end , yet is bearable . |
| 10 | It is effective chiefly in defence , since in delivering it the karateka presents only the side of his body to his opponent , thereby protecting all his vital areas . |
| 11 | ( As I can speak of red without calling it the colour of blood . ) |
| 12 | ( As I can speak of red without calling it the colour of blood . ) ’ |
| 13 | Marshall had taken to calling it the rumour factory because a disproportionate amount of time seemed to be wasted on chatter . |
| 14 | They used to called it the hump did n't they ? |
| 15 | Many of these boil down to the simultaneous call to go back to doing it the way it was , to keep on doing it the way it is , and to move forward to doing it differently . |
| 16 | The earliest large-scale sculpture we have in limestone or marble does not go with the earliest Daedalic ; but the wide acceptance of such an individual style is most naturally explained by supposing it the creation of one artist or school producing major works at major sanctuaries . |
| 17 | Not by doing it the speed he 's doing it . |
| 18 | The formal literal meaning of the words is the locution ; the act which is performed by saying it the illocution ; a third layer is the perlocution or overall aim of the discourse . |
| 19 | A WOMAN saved her guide dog from certain death by giving it the kiss of life . |
| 20 | To enhance the standing of a particular religion or religious tradition by making it the mother of science may be short-sighted in at least two other respects . |
| 21 | Arnold Palmer had already won the US Masters and the US Open , and was looking to sweep all before him by making it the hat-trick and grabbing the jewel in the crown : the centenary Open Championship at St Andrews . |
| 22 | Since the teacher has already used a stick as a sign of Beowulf 's authority he decides to give this additional prominence by making it the object to be retrieved from under the chair . |
| 23 | Indicate clearly , by shading it the diagram , the region in which K must lie , down here . |