Example sentences of "[noun sg] and it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Ultimately , their efforts brought those ‘ Peace People ’ the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1977 , but controversy over that award added to the movement 's inability to sustain its momentum and it faded from the newspaper front pages .
2 She picked it up , misjudged its weight and it fell to the floor with a thud .
3 The room was rippling with the sounds of their scuffle as they fought in bitter silence , knocking into wooden furniture , she trying to get away , he trying to get her to the bed until they fell against a nightstand and it crashed to the floor .
4 The rear wall of the churchyard loomed ahead of the figure and it sprang for the top .
5 During the course of the evening , the larger fish bumped the small one in the side and it floated in the tank , dead .
6 As the fish enters the gullet , the mucus clings closely to the skin of the fish as well as the walls of the gullet and it closes behind the disappearing tail , thus preventing any salt water from entering the stomach .
7 I chucked it out the window and it landed on the ledge .
8 It concentrates the will to God who transcends all particularity and it acts like the kind of short prayer that the Cloud-author recommends : " take bot a litil worde of o silable ; for so it is betir of two , for euer schorter it is , the betir it spirite … is worde schal be ridest on pees or on werre " .
9 And it it really is covered by the passages in erm erm , just , I just reiterate that that that expressly referring your Lordship to it , professional duty except in so far as it may be necessary to elucidate the rules that that was at page eight hundred and forty one at the bottom and it goes over the page to eight four two and then proceeds to general proposition to those two experts ordinary witness may not may not give their opinions towards matters legal or moral obligation .
10 And you know the bit where erm she 's in bed and the hand comes out from behind the pillow and it goes over the back of her head and she goes , she goes , she was so cute she goes , she goes , what a pile of shit ! and when , you know when she cleans up all the cornflakes ?
11 This exception is directed at rationalizing the British Leyland case and it allows for the fact that persons who buy items of equipment may need replacement parts in time and should be able to obtain spare parts in a free market at reasonable cost .
12 and it worked , and it got over to Australia , it got unpacked and it still worked when it got to Australia , and it went on the stand and it stood on the stand for a week or however long it was .
13 You 've got the first stanza which is four lines , has got five lines has four lines ca n't see straight the first stanza has one sentence and it ends at the end of the stanza but then you have one , two , three , four , five more stanzas and you do n't get a full stop until the last stanza half way through .
14 Based on the MLT results , the Well Evaluation group is now trying to minimise the lower layer 's formation damage and it focuses on the reactivation of the lower portion of the upper layer 's production capability .
15 There is another , concomitant , reason for suspecting widespread scepticism about ‘ official ’ versions of the war and it lies in the proliferation of global media networks .
16 Other regions of Scotland were to follow that lead and it led to the formation of the the Scottish Golf Union which , today , has 16 member areas .
17 They just put it on you see with a brush and it was a paste you see , all over the coach , and then they had a hose and they washed all that X mover off you see , the X mover was an acid and it ate into the you see , bodywork .
18 A single cushion had been hurled across the room and it lay on the edge of the fireplace .
19 During the pressing operation , the first juice to emerge from a grape is called the cuvée and it comes from the central zone of pulp .
20 And on that side , what we fireplace it used to be what we used to call a boiler , you used to fill it with water and it used to the fire used to heat it for you to take it we used to call what we used to call ladle it out into a a bowl to wash your pots with or wash your floor with or anything with .
21 Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts .
22 It is formed directly from soft tissue ( mesenchyme ) and not by ossification of cartilage and it belongs to the rare class of bones known as membrane bones .
23 It went on the bench and it went on the floor .
24 and then thump it with a huge mallet and it splits along the natural lines of the grain .
25 It … it was full of beer and it flowed over the ribbons and spoilt a hat and the mistress of the room was very angry and told Mama I had n't to be brought back again , so Mama left . ’
26 Edwards 's health having deteriorated during 1814 , he determined to sell his library and it went under the hammer of R. H. Evans on 15 April 1815 , the 830 lots bringing £8,432 .
27 That is a plausible argument and it points to the importance of economic factors and the prevailing division of labour in shaping sibling relationships .
28 Rare Bear had melted the piston in the No 2 cylinder and it looked like the rod in the No 1 cylinder had bent , tilting the entire jug about four or five degrees .
29 A tractor and trailer was being driven across the bridge , when a wheel came off the tractor and it veered through the stone parapet .
30 The murder weapon was a frozen spike and it melted in the steam room .
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