Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event the presumption is rebuttable and will be fairly easily rebutted where a developer needs to retain ownership of the road in order to build it or to dedicate it as a public highway . |
| 2 | For example , a disabled plaintiff may require a motor car equipped with special devices to enable him to get in and out of it or to control it on the road . |
| 3 | The defendant supplied the product otherwise than in the course of a business and the defendant did not produce it ( or own-brand it or import it into the European Community ) with a view to profit . |
| 4 | If you have already developed osteoporosis , they may be able to treat it or refer you to a specialist . |
| 5 | If you have already developed osteoporosis , they may be able to treat it or refer you to a specialist . |
| 6 | Johnny Kirk , whose family had been connected with the ‘ mayor-making ’ over the years , said they did not want to make a big production of it or turn it into a tourist attraction ; they wanted to keep it as it was , ‘ a local event for local people ’ . |
| 7 | The draftsman should therefore consider whether the landlord should have the right to enter the demise for other purposes also ( eg testing the property , taking samples from it or measuring it for the purpose of rent review ) . |
| 8 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 9 | But er , know I , I do n't think I ever heard anybody think about it or say anything about a , an air raid like , you know . |
| 10 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 11 | Yeah but I thought in the case of like Petula Clark and Lulu it was because they won it that got them into the scene sort of thing . |
| 12 | The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can . |
| 13 | So what was it that pushed them into a far more extreme position towards Mary than that of 1558 ? |
| 14 | Ideally , Praxis would like IBM to adopt the installer , productise it and bundle it with the RS/6000 , though it is ‘ far too early ’ to say whether this might happen , says the firm 's Stephen Robertson . |
| 15 | The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter . |
| 16 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 17 | Expand it and throw it onto the ground on the other side of the wheelbarrow . |
| 18 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
| 19 | ‘ If we want a lively and thriving democracy we have to enable people to have information in a way in which they can deal with it and use it in a way which enhances their understanding of the subject . ’ |
| 20 | Indeed , as Amiss saw with fascination , his first act on sitting down to breakfast was to open the tabloid at page three , fold it and prop it against the sugar bowl in such a way that the topless pin-up of the day was there to be looked at every time he got bored with the Telegraph . |
| 21 | I can pick the cigar up just with my eye-power and push it and pull it in the air any way I want ! ’ |
| 22 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'll have to snap him out of it and keep him to the exercises or he 'll ruin himself . ’ |
| 24 | Harper spend f226 on repairing it and sold it to a finance company . |
| 25 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 26 | De Valois saw it and accepted it for the repertory . |
| 27 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 28 | So , Sir , because of that quality of the Queen 's Speech , I support it and recommend it to the House . |
| 29 | And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through . |
| 30 | With care he lifted it and took it to the mouth of the chamber . |