Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moon was low now and the light , wherever it slanted through the trees , seemed thicker , older and more yellow . |
| 2 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 3 | As it tumbled through the air it stretched out its arms . |
| 4 | The dog landed awkwardly on its hindlegs , losing its balance , and he looked away sharply as it tumbled under the wheels . |
| 5 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 6 | It tumbled against the German mark — ending perilously close to its critical floor in the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 7 | She released her hair from its restraining band ; it tumbled in heavy red-gold waves past her shoulder-blades , and she shampooed it with her favourite herbal shampoo . |
| 8 | The two changes which took place in law and constitution before 1980 were at least permitted by the clerical church in that it agreed with the abolition of the special position of the Roman catholic church , and did not oppose the limited introduction of contraceptives . |
| 9 | It agreed with the United States that Resolutions 242 and 338 were the benchmarks for a peaceful solution , but sharply disagreed over their interpretation . |
| 10 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 11 | Mahwah , New Jersey-based Israeli company Defense Software & Systems Inc says it agreed with Israel Corp Ltd for a joint venture to be incorporated in the US to hold an 80.1% interest in Tower Semiconductor Ltd , the name chosen for the company being formed to own and operate National Semiconductor Corp 's existing facility in Migdal Haemek , Israel , running it as an independent semiconductor business . |
| 12 | It was announced on Sept. 12 , 1989 , that the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC , had ended a long-running dispute when it agreed with various Indian groups that skeletal remains would be returned where evidence linked them to specific tribes . |
| 13 | It agreed with the clock . |
| 14 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 15 | On 18 June 1486 it agreed on ‘ a peace to be concluded with the King of Scots … so that a diet [ conference ] be taken upon treaty to be made of marriage … . ’ |
| 16 | On the latter basis , it agreed to the LRT acquisition of two lines covering several miles at Croydon , so acquiring a link between two stations on differing London lines — Wimbledon and West Croydon . |
| 17 | Either it must achieve the reductions it agreed to by using technological means to remove the sulphur from domestic coal , or , if it chooses to see low-sulphur coal being imported , or gas burned in power stations , it must endure reductions in emissions closer to those agreed by West Germany , the Netherlands , France , Belgium and Denmark . ’ |
| 18 | On 3 March 1919 he presented a paper to a conference of management committees of London societies , on the basis of which it agreed to the principles of amalgamation ( Barnes nd , 1940 ) . |
| 19 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 20 | However , it agreed to a demand that Gdlyan and Ivanov be dismissed from working in the Procuracy , and in a resolution it warned them that their parliamentary immunity from prosecution could yet be withdrawn if they persisted in making " groundless " statements attacking the country 's leaders . |
| 21 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 22 | It agreed to the sale because a refusal would merely have delayed it until the six months ' residential qualification had been achieved by the co-tenant , the committee was told . |
| 23 | It agreed after a difficult session ( marked by objections from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union over terminology ) to recommend the dispatch of an EC-based mission to Yugoslavia to supervise the fragile ceasefire , and also to send a CSCE " good offices " mission to assist political dialogue . |
| 24 | Resentment and resistance followed , notably in the Pilgrimage of Grace ; and although the Crown was able to ride that storm , it agreed in 1540 partially to replace the Statute of Uses with a milder act , the Statute of Wills , which in effect allowed landowners to avoid feudal incidents on two-thirds of their lands . |
| 25 | Last week it agreed in principle that Switzerland could take part in projects where its participation would strengthen the research effort . |
| 26 | Despite the many problems which still faced the proposal to introduce an EC-wide company charter , the Commission defused some of the more acrimonious disputes surrounding company taxation , when it agreed in April 1990 to drop plans for an EC-wide system of personal and corporation tax , in favour of a policy of co-ordinating the various existing systems . |
| 27 | At the beginning of last year it agreed in principle a 15-year deal covering fuel supplies and reprocessing at a cost of £2.7 billion , but the contracts have not yet been signed . |
| 28 | Although the NUR still has some members among drivers , it agreed in 1983 that it would stop recruiting them . |
| 29 | The League 's management committee has decided to invite the two candidates it agreed upon on Monday for interview , but the head-hunting process which has caused so much vexation is threatening the ultimate embarrassment . |
| 30 | The League 's management committee has decided to invite the two candidates it agreed upon on Monday for interview , but the head-hunting process which has caused so much vexation is threatening the ultimate embarrassment . |