Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The painting of the boarding will improve its appearance and will waterproof it and protect it against the elements . |
| 32 | He described the heap of rubble from which it and the rest of the building had risen and how he and the owner , who came up for weekends , had taken eight years to finish it and turn it into the Mirimar which we now perceived it to be . |
| 33 | I grab it and squirt it at the gape of her frightened mouth . |
| 34 | I turned it and played it to the net , though it did n't come in easily . |
| 35 | Typically the customer selects the equipment from the supplier , and the finance lessor buys it and leases it to the customer on rentals calculated to pay off the purchase price plus interest . |
| 36 | When property passes on death , it will go in the first instance to the executor appointed by will , or the administrator appointed by the court , who are charged with the duty of dealing with it and transferring it to the persons entitled ( see p. 114 ) . |
| 37 | Worst of all , her self-image was low with the best years of her life fast disappearing , taking her previous good health with it and leaving her with the excess baggage . |
| 38 | she 's walking the through it and stuffed them in the ground ! |
| 39 | It provokes an answer , anticipates it and structures itself in the answer 's direction . ’ |
| 40 | And if he should record the note electronically , would he then bother to save it and retain it until the end of his life ? |
| 41 | Whenever there has been a whiff of financial scandal in the past , the Opposition , very much to their credit , have raised it and brought it before the public , and there has been a great hue and cry about it . |
| 42 | When they reached the next chamber he extinguished it and exchanged it for the torch . |
| 43 | She sucked her teeth , took another ticket down at random , glanced at it , crumpled it and tossed it into the disposal by her left knee . |
| 44 | Aye it was bought it and presented it to the island . |
| 45 | The backing sheet is then removed from the film before wetting it and applying it to the window . |
| 46 | He pushed her back into the room and , seizing the case , opened it and upended it over the bed . |
| 47 | She folded it and stood it in the comer behind the music centre . |
| 48 | I could have turned a blind eye , but to grab it and to throw it to the hounds I think was absolutely abysmal . |
| 49 | I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back . |
| 50 | In fact I suggest John Major snips it out , frames it and hangs it in the Cabinet room to remind himself and some of his more heartless colleagues of just how much Belinda and hundreds of other children need this wonderful hospital . |
| 51 | He purchased a stamp from the counter clerk , licked it and affixed it to the envelope . |
| 52 | No matter how wide the terms of the clause , the courts will limit it and modify it to the extent necessary to enable effect to be given to the main object and intent of the contract . |
| 53 | Bernice grabbed it and shoved it through the dispensing slot . |
| 54 | He took off his glove , signed it and gave it to the boy . |
| 55 | Then one day a visitor called and gave me his card , so I just took it and gave it to the master in the drawing room . |
| 56 | And why should the palm be so thickly clotted , almost as if another 's hand had lifted it and smeared it into the blood at the throat ? |
| 57 | ‘ I suggested the Bank collect the paper , shred it , bale it and deliver it to the mill , ’ said Hugh . |
| 58 | For when God freely wills to take on Himself the world 's suffering , He does so in order to absorb it , to transform it and to overcome it by the positive power of His eternal and unchanging love . |
| 59 | the gathering up of all this scattered craft knowledge , systematising it and concentrating it in the hands of the employer and then doling it out again only in the form of minute instructions , giving to each worker only the knowledge needed for the performance of a particular relatively minute task . |
| 60 | She was carrying a small spear and only just had time to raise it and thrust it at the Scarag . |