Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Norwegian-owned Kvaerner Govan yard on the Upper Clyde is using Scott Lithgow 's 1,000ft dry dock while it fits out the Havis , the last of its batch of four liquefied petroleum gas tankers . |
| 2 | Meanwhile police are trying to find out who was driving the car when it travelled down the country lane to Stonebench . |
| 3 | They followed the car as it tore down the M4 , finally reaching Bristol . |
| 4 | In the opening sequence he is seen hanging on to the top of a jeep as it careers down the rock of Gibraltar . |
| 5 | In my personal opinion I prefer the original ending because it keeps up the style and tone of the rest of the novel and also keeps the characters the same . |
| 6 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 7 | ‘ When I bought this hat , I 'd just had a horrible haircut so it covered up the mistake nicely . ’ |
| 8 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 9 | The famous Chapter 5 of the first book , which deals with the transformation of labour from a stage where it is a ‘ part of life ’ to a stage under capitalism when it takes on the imaginary form of a thing separate from the labourer , when it can be bought and sold , is worked out in Formen , in the discussion of tribal , oriental , and ancient societies which it contains . |
| 10 | The next developments involved spectroscopy. the study of the sharp coloured lines resolved by a prism when it splits up the light emitted by a heated specimen . |
| 11 | The desert boiled around his lorry while it rumbled down the slope . |
| 12 | Place a greaseband round the trunk of apple trees to catch the wingless female winter moth as it crawls up the tree from the soil in an attempt to lay its eggs . |
| 13 | cos it makes a fun funny humming or buzzing noise because it picks up the vibrations through the table otherwise . |
| 14 | And the birth control pill is an interesting example because it brings out the controversy and misunderstanding which there can be , because for many many years there was a great deal of talk about the risks from the birth control pill . |
| 15 | Maxine ( 4.10 ) : Wet sand wo n't go through the funnel because it soaks up the water and sticks together . |
| 16 | She stared , hypnotised , not daring to move again as he resumed his task , and she fought her physical responses , rigidly blocking out the sensual touch of each curling finger as it hooked up the criss-crossing lace . |
| 17 | This not only disturbed the Junker sense of social stability , but played havoc with their income since it opened up the estates to the market force of unfettered labour : the Junkers were obliged to acknowledge a world that they had been desperately trying to shut out . |
| 18 | High-level ozone is a life saver because it screens out the UVB ; but low-level ozone is a serious pollutant , causing respiratory and other health problems for many people . |
| 19 | Their common aim is to help introduce a more just and democratic society ; to bring into being the social transformation that was announced by the government as it took over the leadership of the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980 . |
| 20 | The trip was hazardous , as bilge-water created a stability problem and the Coastguard searchlight was now a hindrance as it lit up the flying spray . |
| 21 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 22 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 23 | During the course of that time , the light from Lucifer 's atmosphere would have grown in strength until it blotted out the stars and enveloped both Bridge and Lift in a flaming glare . |
| 24 | She stood in a large yard with a glass of white wine in her hand and it spilt down the front of her red dress when she jumped at the banging noise of a firework . |
| 25 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the greenhouse effect is so efficient that this energy becomes trapped to the extent that it drives up the surface temperatures to the observed values . |
| 27 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 28 | The bottom end of the rope was fixed to the back of the van and it took up the slack and held the tree in tension to give the saw ease of movement . |
| 29 | Furthermore , this pattern of decisions is recognized as of very special interest because it makes up the state of equilibrium . |
| 30 | This manifested itself quite dramatically on a few occasions when , the holding screws having sheared , the rail curled up behind the tank as it moved down the slope . |