Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When young children have to be looked after it reduces the opportunities that parents have to take part in the social round . |
| 2 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 3 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 4 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 5 | Regular users of it wrap the edges round wooden batons , secured with a few tacks , leaving these to rest on the ground , and rolling it up on the batons when the season is over . |
| 6 | There was , in particular , a renewed surge of spending on state schools , part of it to finance the rapid completion of the comprehensive secondary education system now being finished under the aegis of Shirley Williams , a right-wing member of the government but also a critic of private schooling . |
| 7 | because making a thing of it creates the wrong atmosphere for talking about sex ( justification of opinion ) . |
| 8 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 9 | A long pole was fitted to the front of it to control the swaying . |
| 10 | In this case we square the whole key and take a centre part of it to allocate the records to buckets . |
| 11 | She imagined she was cupping this white-hot power in her womb , and that the walls of it contained the fire . |
| 12 | There were men half-hidden by piled-up mountains of coloured balloons at some of the street corners , a relic , Ward said , of the magnificent feathered headdresses of the Aztecs , and with the stillness of evening the dust haze had gone , so that the huge square of the Zócalo had a brooding sense of peace , the cathedral 's twin towers still touched with the sunset 's warmth and the great mass of it dominating the presidential palace . |
| 13 | To appreciate Althusser 's work one must first of all understand why so much of it takes the form of an exposition and defence of Marx 's writings . |
| 14 | I had to study something of it to put the exhibition together . |
| 15 | Spots of it stained the thighs of her robe . |
| 16 | The shock of it surprised the dog , when then bit the farmer ( modestly forbids me to mention where , but do give it some thought ) . |
| 17 | This is due to the use of a special microlouvre film , which only allows the person seated directly in front of it to see the information displayed on the computer 's monitor . |
| 18 | This is due to the use of a special microlouvre film , which only allows the person seated directly in front of it to see the information displayed on the computer 's monitor . |
| 19 | Thus Gandalf says at the start that the Ring will ‘ possess ’ and ‘ devour ’ any creature who uses it , while Elrond later goes further and says ‘ The very desire of it corrupts the heart ’ ( I , 281 ) . |
| 20 | His drawings of it convey the sense of someone singing at his work . |
| 21 | Maxwell 's electromagnetic theory involved an aether occupying all space , whereas Einstein 's radical recasting of it eliminated the aether . |
| 22 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 23 | The shock of it choked the scream that tried to form in her throat . |
| 24 | But if the black hole has been emitting for the last ten or twenty thousand million years , the chance of it reaching the end of its life within the next few years , rather than several million years in the past or future , is really rather small ! |
| 25 | Baker said on Sept. 10 that $12,000 million was to be provided by Saudi Arabia , the UAE and the Kuwaiti government , half of it to defray the costs of foreign forces , and half to assist Egypt and Turkey [ see below , but also p. 37728 for Saudi measures against Jordan , the other state most seriously affected by the economic impact of the Gulf crisis ] . |
| 26 | They set themselves the task of creating a full-scale replica of it using the original Roman techniques . |
| 27 | Erm thought patterns being actually understanding laying it out and seeing the way it works which obviously structured thought patterns but it 's the basis of and grasping erm actually delivering it your delivery erm of it using the cluster but the coaching was invaluable , it was constructive criticism we all know what was wrong and it it just helped yesterday for someone not to be coaching just to help you through it erm and I think all those three things became invaluable really mean because most of those leads on to the other ones structured erm so the sort of thought patterns the coaching and the was very good |
| 28 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 29 | The skirt developed for the Super 4 was more efficient than its predecessors : less of it touched the sea , so less power was wasted in overcoming water resistance . |
| 30 | His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " . |