Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They made it respectable to talk about it by linking grants with the proper adoption of equal opportunity policies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Boys would come from as far away as Shepherd 's Bush and Bayswater to play on it between fighting rival gangs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Security is an overall office function , and the Computing Sub-Group , in its earlier discussions on security , has preferred to deal with it by ensuring that offices are kept as secure as possible , rather than by guarding individual pieces of hardware . |
| 8 | He told his colleagues about his great aunt 's Daimler , which had travelled at the ‘ sensible speed of thirty miles an hour ’ , and was sufficiently spacious to enable one to descend from it without removing one 's top hat . |
| 9 | If you deviate from it , and it 's terribly easy to deviate from it by rejecting certain thoughts , oh that 's silly , that 's not relevant , that 's too obvious , that 's objectionable , erm , that 's too Freudian , you know , if you say that kind of thing to yourself you get nowhere . |
| 10 | Sometimes I was so affected by a particular view or landscape that I 'd wait for the athletes to run into it before taking a photo . |
| 11 | Find out ways to tolerate the apparently unchangeable circumstance ; to live through it without becoming upset or ruffled , remind yourself that it wo n't last forever . |
| 12 | The world is what it is , and will remain so ; and you learn to live within it by adjusting yourself rather than it . |
| 13 | But if elected on June 8th , he plans to pay for it by leasing the city 's international airport for 30 years to a private-sector manager . |
| 14 | A hearing may be adjourned if either you or the Council say anything to the Committee , or produce something in writing which the other did not know about beforehand , and it is so important that you or the Council want time to think about it before proceeding . |
| 15 | If Bloom is every kind of Dubliner it is because it falls to him to transact the unfinished business , to enact it and to get beyond it without dazzling gifts . |
| 16 | He decided not to pander to it by asking for the admirers name . |
| 17 | As a result , the United States encouraged the British and the Russians to join with it in signing a treaty with Iran promising that all three countries would withdraw their troops within six months how useful the United States could be against Iran 's old exploiters . |
| 18 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |