Example sentences of "it [conj] it [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual , rainwater fills up the aquifer and water flows out from it where it meets the surface . |
| 2 | Then in the June issue reader Roger James says he has used it and it caused the rubber seals to swell and advise we check that rubber seals are compatible with silicon fluid . |
| 3 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 4 | The neutrino also carries with it a large transverse energy but the particle 's properties are such that the experiments at CERN can not detect it and it escapes the apparatus unseen . |
| 5 | press it and it starts the tape , it stops the tape |
| 6 | Demagnetise it and it sucks the heat back again . |
| 7 | Early in my journalistic career I learned that one should never use a preposition to end a sentence with — remembering it because it committed the error it condemned ; whatever the consequence , I was now fully convinced that Moose Jaw was not a bad place to be from . |
| 8 | It all started with the idea of re-establishing the archive of the Verein Berliner Kunstlerinnen ( Association of Women Artists in Berlin ) which was destroyed during the second world war and developed into a journey of discovery , which has reached this point with the following achievements : 1200 women artists on record ; many works discovered ; the archive set up ; a profusely illustrated catalogue ( in fact the word catalogue does not give an idea of the range of articles contained in it since it covers the history of women artists in German-speaking countries , to art-business oriented articles , to facets of the history of the association , followed by a chronological development of the association and a full catalogue of the works on show , divided into sections , as they are in the exhibition ) ; a dictionary with short biographies of 1200 artists and 700 friends of art called Kathe , Paula und der ganze Rest — Ein Nachschlagewerk ( Kathe , Paula and the rest of the bunch ! — A Reference Book ) , which has caused something of a stir ; and of course , finally , the exhibition showing the works of 70 of the members and guests of the association over its 125 year life , which includes 250 works loaned by 100 institutions and individuals . |
| 9 | Usually , on reconnaissance escort , the Germans drove the camera plane home within ten minutes , and often they got it before it recrossed the Line . |
| 10 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 11 | They did n't have any control , certainly , and not even very much knowledge as to how the commodity — and I 'm talking about cotton , rubber , tea , copper , bauxite , coco , sugar , coffee and so on — what happened to it when it enters the market of a developed country . |
| 12 | It seems to be one of the valves sticking in its guide and the piston just tapping it as it reaches the top of its stroke . |
| 13 | The gleeful irony in the tale dominates it as it explores the character of a testy , vain man of sedentary habits changing into a comparatively humble , sensible and useful citizen . |
| 14 | In my case it 's every morning , though I do in a sense like it as it heralds the beginning of another crap day at school . |