Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was still a little awe in her wide grey eyes and it added to the astonishingly innocent look that intrigued everyone . |
| 2 | Set off with the towing Julie 's car and the tow rope just snapped in two , and it jerked both cars and it cut off the fuel . |
| 3 | For a long moment he held her tightly against him as if he was afraid she might try to elude him , then when he seemed sure of her his hands encircled her waist , moulded her hips and moved upwards , unbuttoning her shirt , pulling it from the waistband of her jeans , then slipping it from her shoulders until it fell to the floor . |
| 4 | Mike is one of those shiny people who carry a square of bright blue sky above their heads while it rains on the rest of us . |
| 5 | In occasional clearings the American boys caught sight of slender natives in conical , palm-leaf hats bending over fishing lines or snares for river fowl , but they rarely looked up ; only the naked , potbellied children paid any attention , staring at the Avignon with brown , expressionless eyes as it swung past the low banks on which they stood . |
| 6 | Standing in the back of one of the pick-ups as it sped across the hard sand , with the dust spiralling out behind us across the vast plain , it seemed that a whole new world was opening up . |
| 7 | Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads . |
| 8 | It criticises and deconstructs its own formulations as it struggles against the dominant system of meaning . ’ |
| 9 | Ginguene 's most valuable next sentence suggests that the director 's baton had been waved all the time : it ‘ indicated by its strokes the end of each so-called bar and , by the various signs that it traced in the air , the various interpolations or divisions of that bar . ’ |
| 10 | While the price of doing business in Russia is high — the cost of office space in Moscow , for example , is rocketing — Hall reckons Sun kit will cost less in the Commonwealth of Independent States than it does in the rest of Europe , where customers are used to paying a premium for computer products . |
| 11 | But Christianity had so forgotten an earlier period when it was open to discussion and even mockery of its views that it reacted to the modern onslaught with what often amounted to fear and paranoia . |
| 12 | The phenotypic effects of a gene are normally seen as all the effects that it has on the body in which it sits . |
| 13 | But we shall now see that the phenotypic effects of a gene need to be thought of as all the effects that it has on the world . |
| 14 | I know I 'm so they they eat you see they 've eaten fish and chips and it goes through the air conditioning and it comes into the studio you all you can smell is fish and chips . |
| 15 | At home the children all slept together and the new baby with its parents till it came off the breast . |
| 16 | The train groaned and eased its aches as it drew into the small station . |
| 17 | In some ways , a comparison between Nissan and Toyota in America and Nissan in Britain reveals as much about those two countries as it does about the firms . |
| 18 | The driver spun the wheel as the Mercedes reached the end of the row of parked cars and it skidded sideways , the left corner of the rear bumper crumpling in a flash of sparks as it glanced off the wall . |
| 19 | Secondly , what would happen to the profitability of Britain 's least successful credit operators if it reacted to the credit demand signals of customers as rapidly as it responds to their credit risk signals ? |
| 20 | The Marxist value system arose in this vacuum of values and it arose from the multiplying effect that machinery had on man 's labour . |
| 21 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 22 | Sales of its Unix products will , for instance , outstrip revenues from the DEC versions that it markets over the next year or so , it reckons . |
| 23 | The steering worried me more on Brecon 's narrow tracks than it had on the motorway . |
| 24 | It is the result of conscious planning by multinational corporations and banks and it results from the conscious actions taken by the US and UK governments in building the post-war world . |
| 25 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) In determining whether a lease is one to which section 11 applies — ( b ) a lease which is determinable at the option of the lessor before the expiration of seven years from the commencement of the term shall be treated as a lease for a term of less than seven years , and ( c ) a lease ( other than a lease to which paragraph ( b ) applies ) shall not be treated as a lease for a term of less than seven years if it confers on the lessee an option for renewal for a term which , together with the original term , amounts to seven years or more . |
| 27 | A Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into credit cards recommended the abolition of the ‘ no discrimination ’ clause in agreements between banks and their retailers when it reported in the summer . |
| 28 | And the ability of many insects to see the infrared and microwave emanations of particular molecules or of particular plants , for instance , is intriguing in its wider implications as it relates to the overall balance and economy of nature . |
| 29 | In general terms , a landlord ( like a vendor ) should disclose to the prospective tenant any defects in title that may not be obvious to the tenant unless it was clear that the tenant knew of the defects when it entered into the agreement for lease . |
| 30 | On 3 June last the painting was badly slashed in five places when it fell from the wall and caught on the scaffolding used by the restorers ( see The Art Newspaper No.20 , July-September 1992 , p.1 ) . |