Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun prp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The operation was running smoothly as the yacht rounded the North Foreland when it seemed certain that a landing would be made somewhere in the Thames Estuary . |
| 2 | It ‘ betrayed ’ Isildur to the arrows of the orcs ; it ‘ abandoned ’ Gollum , says Gandalf , in response to the ‘ dark thought from Mirkwood ’ of its master ; it all but betrays Frodo in the Prancing Pony when it slips on to his finger and proves his invisibility to the spies for the Nazgûl then present . |
| 3 | We scrambled over the chockstone of the Eye onto the plateau and wandered over shimmering snowfields to drink from the icy waters of the Garbh Uisge where it emerged from a shadowy blue tunnel before tumbling from the plateau . |
| 4 | It was achieved in a mood of almost stunned boredom amongst English opinion , confident that the dismantling of the United Kingdom as it had endured since 1707 or 1536 would not in fact take place . |
| 5 | Given Khoneinis constant Anti-American rhetoric , this was quite a success for the United States and it led Ambassador with the new regime . |
| 6 | You look at a mail box in the United States and it looks like it 's been abandoned , just barely bolted to the ground any more . |
| 7 | A lead in volume of unit production was soon established by the United States and it has been maintained ever since . |
| 8 | Appalachian English is one of the surviving non-standard regional dialects of English in the United States and it 's associated with the residents of the Appalachian mountain range . |
| 9 | Even more surprisingly , this little black and white indictment of the National Health Service did almost as well in the United States as it did in Britain . |
| 10 | Although to be fair neither was the East End while it remained full of such people as the Trumpers and Shorrocks . |
| 11 | The depth of these deposits varies from less than 10 m to more than 200 m and the major drainage system is that of the Huanghe River , which is also known as the Yellow River since it carries a huge volume of yellow silt from the Loess plateau into the Yellow Sea . |
| 12 | The boat was mooring up on the River Severn when it rolled over , trapping two of them underwater . |
| 13 | The crime for which Jean Campbell was charged was one of wilful murder of her own three-year old child by throwing it over the Old Bridge in Glasgow into the River Clyde where it drowned . |
| 14 | These six streets formed almost a straight line , but from the medieval stone bridge , still having the old ford on the Fisherton side , the road curved to the Iron Bridge which crossed one of the branches of the River Avon as it flowed out from Water Lane . |
| 15 | But before that , to the north , numerous small rivers and tributaries — including the likes of the Bruar Water , the Banvie , the Tilt and the Fender Burn have all fattened the River Garry before it feeds into the Tummel and on down into the Tay . |
| 16 | Newcastle Emlyn Castle was built in approximately 1240 within a loop on the River Teifi and it saw action in 1648 when it was blown up by Cromwell 's men . |
| 17 | on delivery from BREL York to Ilford , new class 321 emu No 321334 is reflected in the waters of the River Ouse as it passes Offord Cluney , near Huntingdon , on 31 March 1989 . |
| 18 | Combwich ( pronounced ‘ Cumidge ’ ) is a quiet , picturesque community clustered round a bend in the River Parrett as it meanders on its way from the sea to Bridgwater Docks . |
| 19 | The way goes on to cross the B1152 and follow the River Thurne until it goes past Acle and on to Halvergate Marshes . |
| 20 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 21 | I liked the Les Paul because it had a lot of knobs ! |
| 22 | A fifth of all the party 's gains were made in the West Midlands and it achieved double the national swing in the region , writes David Graves . |
| 23 | Practically sprinting the last few yards to the cottage , he pushed inside and dumped her belongings on the kitchen table before dashing out again and after the Land Rover as it groaned and grunted its way up the track to the colonel 's house , presumably driven by the garage mechanic . |
| 24 | The following morning , a peerless sunny Sunday , incredibly the larks were singing on the Mort Homme and it seemed quite impossible that there could be an attack that day Suddenly , a single shell landed , and the tornado descended . |
| 25 | One man died on board the Reine Mathilde when it caught fire on April 9 , sailing between Caen in France and Portsmouth , England , although not directly as a result of the fire ; arson was not suspected . |