Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] [noun] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But its formula of the Son 's ‘ consubstantiality ’ with the Father was slow to gain general acceptance , despite Constantine 's efforts to impose it . |
| 2 | Roxburgh 's licence to live it up could be a matchwinner for a Scotland side who have lost in Switzerland and scraped a lucky home draw with Portugal in their opening Group One matches . |
| 3 | It was ‘ insanity ’ on IBM 's part to believe it could continue growing at 15% per annum , taking on more people and buildings as it went , he added . |
| 4 | They chose Guy Fawkes ' night to do it and the gesture went unnoticed — he found a lesson even in this . |
| 5 | A lawsuit in 1625 disclosed that Richard Warner , a soap-boiler of Bristol , had a mill in Caerleon , Monmouthshire , and by offering double wages , had secured some of Webb 's workers to build it . |
| 6 | Immigration has so far played a relatively minor part in the election campaign , and Mr Baker 's decision to raise it now will be seen as a further attempt by the Tories to prevent their support slipping , particularly among skilled workers and their families . |
| 7 | Right : 4wd Matra MS84 defied even Jackie Stewart 's ability to make it competitive . |
| 8 | Dignan 's attempt to reformulate it in a ‘ progressive ’ way could therefore be seen as partisan , and therefore necessarily outside the ambit of a ‘ rights ’ approach . |
| 9 | At one point the local authority threatened to put a schedule of dilapidation on the place to force Jarvis 's mother to repair it . |
| 10 | But time was running out and with just two minutes remaining , Nigel Mott secured the points as he headed home Paul Biddle 's cross to make it two nil . |
| 11 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 12 | Aye so it 's Sharon 's turn to buy it , can , Elliott can not get cheap stuff from the , where Ian works ? |
| 13 | Our offer secures Wheway 's future and I urge Wheway 's board to recommend it . ’ |
| 14 | Still , there may be more working against that film than Schnabel 's will to direct it . |
| 15 | Passage of the new measure ( which had already been approved by the Senate in September 1989 ) precipitated an unprecedented constitutional crisis because of King Baudouin 's refusal to give it the royal assent . |
| 16 | She had only to look at Mrs Jebeau 's face to see it ; in fact , she could smell trouble in that direction . |
| 17 | Despite Brett 's attempt to prevent it , the firebombs had been detonated . |
| 18 | She felt she was blushing all the time on these trips , at the conditions of life they were intruding upon , at Jannie 's plans to turn it to their advantage , at Jannie 's evident affection for her . |
| 19 | Labour ex-Cabinet minister Lord Healey warned : ‘ Lady Thatcher 's type of nationalism is the greatest single danger to peace in the modern world , and Mr Major 's failure to confront it head-on as such a danger has made a civil war in the government party a danger to Britain and to Europe as whole . ’ |
| 20 | Brown doubts Microsoft 's pledge to reduce it to 8Mb in the final release will produce a very usable system , certainly not one that could run multiple applications concurrently . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , they say , Windows NT will be fundamental in Microsoft 's strategy to move it business from desktop personal computers — MS-DOS already runs on about 90% of the 140m machines worldwide — to mid-range and high-end systems . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , they say , Windows NT will be fundamental in Microsoft 's strategy to move it business from desktop personal computers — MS-DOS already runs on about 90% of the 140 million PC machines worldwide — to mid-range and high-end systems . |
| 23 | And promptly had the stuffing knocked straight out of her when , his aggression not letting up , ‘ You 're sure your name 's not Mrs Barnaby Stewart ? ’ he grated — and Fabia 's attempt to bluff it out promptly folded . |
| 24 | And now it would be Mosley 's job to reconcile it all , to guide this 20th century sporting monster towards the next millennium . |
| 25 | It was also transmitted south-westwards , into Egypt and along the coast of North Africa , where it would come into much more direct contact with the coalescing orthodoxy of Rome — and , despite Rome 's attempts to suppress it , exercise a more discernible influence on the evolution of Christianity in Western Europe . |
| 26 | Charles of France might shrink from fomenting a direct war , but he would be glad to use every oblique weapon against the upstart king who had deposed his son-in-law , and sent his little widowed daughter back in clumsy state , but without her dowry , which had been fed of necessity into King Henry 's treasury to keep it solvent during his first year of kingship . |
| 27 | Louise took a couple of inches off Clare 's hair to tidy it up and get rid of the split ends . |
| 28 | We got charge accounts at Bloomingdales and stores like that , so we were always dressed fabulously and we were always sitting around in fabulous restaurants , charging for fabulous meals with all manner of people , which was all Tony 's plan to make it look like the most successful rock and roll company going . |
| 29 | Ok … your final task for the day is to name your ‘ brilliant ’ midfield … and we 'll have a little comparison shall we … in fact Ill use Leeds ' reserves to make it fairer . |