Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Belinda , love , can you remember exactly how you are , and go and get your brush and brush your hair round so that it lies spread out on the chair ? ’ she said . |
| 2 | I do n't think it needs to go down under the barrier act . |
| 3 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |
| 4 | Wanchai used to be the hostess-bar district , but it has moved up in the world and is now home to one of the colony 's classiest new hotels , The Grand Hyatt ( ) . |
| 5 | Now it has gone back towards the middle and as of this moment , drug abuse worldwide is worse than ever . ’ |
| 6 | No one has ever given a satisfactory explanation of why Mr Ford said what he said — and it has gone down in the history books as just another Ford pratfall . |
| 7 | It has shot up in the recent hot sun , while the grass at the city 's other cemeteries has been burned off . |
| 8 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 9 | So it has come up with the idea of a tape ‘ loop ’ to delay the broadcast of ‘ live ’ debates for long enough for an engineer to hit a panic button until the offending words have passed . |
| 10 | While British Rail says it ca n't afford to help disabled travellers at Leominster , it has come up with the cash to improve a commuter line that 's been plagued with delays and breakdowns . |
| 11 | The operating agreement it has set up with the Manchester Metrolink — due to start running along several sections of former BR track today — could provide a good foundation . |
| 12 | Over the years it has settled down to the equivalent of ‘ dinner for two ’ , thus about £60 in 1990 in Greenock . |
| 13 | which provided the telephone lines in these trials , is now involved in another experiment in which it has teamed up with the CBS television network . |
| 14 | It has taken over from the Appeal committee the task of raising money to support the teaching of Law in Somerville . |
| 15 | I mean eventually eventually , sooner or later and it might be later if somebody else will still it has to come out of the profit margin . |
| 16 | If this state of affairs continues the state will be denied an important source of legitimation for its own authority — namely the promise ( which it has held out in the past ) of a steady increase in the level of material well-being enjoyed by the population as a whole ( Poggi , 1978 ; Winkler , 1975 ; Poulantzas , 1978 ; Habermas , 1971 , 1976 ) . |
| 17 | It becomes the subject of countless official reports , inquiries and learned articles , and it starts to crop up in the soaps . |
| 18 | The example of the police radios shows the relative permanence of being allocated a piece of spectrum — radios and other broadcasting equipment , whether for entertainment or communication , are designed to sort out what it wants to pick up from the rest of the signal . |
| 19 | Although it might be a temptation to say hot air , because you do put hot air in , but it says goes in at the top of the furnace . |
| 20 | And it says come down onto the wet pale sand , |
| 21 | In the general excitement — the novel has scarcely begun — it gets borne in upon the reader that Stavrogin 's conduct is not the only thing to be puzzled by . |
| 22 | Sometimes it gets blown along by the wind . |
| 23 | It gets parcelled out among the society he moves in , or rather flits in and out of , while himself belonging elsewhere , which means nowhere . |
| 24 | If a pulse follows too hard on the heels of its predecessor it gets mixed up with the echo of its predecessor returning from a distant target . |
| 25 | As Sabra , a woman in her forties , told me ‘ If I go out I usually do have my Dupatta round me , but at work I ca n't wear it in case it gets caught up in the machines , so I just wear a scarf on my head when I leave the house — something is needed to save one 's Izzat ’ . |
| 26 | It 's a circular route all the time , it keeps going back to the town centre |
| 27 | Like Durham , it appears to grow out of the rocks above the river bank . |
| 28 | and it seems to carry on up the stairs |
| 29 | And that is , that it seems to look back to the writings of Darwin . |
| 30 | ‘ If it means stumbling about in the dark I sympathize . ’ |