Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Expand it and throw it onto the ground on the other side of the wheelbarrow . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I can pick the cigar up just with my eye-power and push it and pull it in the air any way I want ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'll have to snap him out of it and keep him to the exercises or he 'll ruin himself . ’ |
| 15 | De Valois saw it and accepted it for the repertory . |
| 16 | But he had written all over this one — the handwriting was unmistakable — before tearing it and throwing it on the floor . |
| 17 | So , Sir , because of that quality of the Queen 's Speech , I support it and recommend it to the House . |
| 18 | With care he lifted it and took it to the mouth of the chamber . |
| 19 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 20 | The aim is to arrange the rig in such a way that the wind can blow under it and release it from the water . |
| 21 | About 1890 , 100 years after his grandfather had presented the horn , Sir Charles Tennant , aware of the family tradition connecting the horn with Robert Burns and his poem Tam O' Shanter , decided to trace it and return it to the family 's safe-keeping . |
| 22 | Pinched some of my old Dad 's plum brandy and soaked raisins in it and left 'em in the clearing . |
| 23 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
| 24 | I washed and sterilised it and put it on the hall table , beside the front door . |
| 25 | They must carbon-date it and put it under the microscope , and we must examine Aziz carefully and get him to say where he found it . |
| 26 | If it is a real big son , great , we stuff it and put it in the front room . |
| 27 | I took the cheque , folded it and put it in the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 28 | She says that her husband suggested they buy it and put it in the bedroom ! |
| 29 | In the chip shop we bought some fish out the fryer and put in the top and straight away got them bloody tongs picked it up and poured the bloody grease off it and put it in the bloody bag thought it was terrible . |
| 30 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |