Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something with the consistency of cement began to splatter from Peters ' ripped torso , but still he clung on to it in the renewed savagery of his hunger . |
| 2 | There 's a little row that goes down beside it round the back , I never knew there was . |
| 3 | Crowds of spectators were thronging the sides of the narrow road which led down from it into the village and , after Vitor had hurriedly found a parking place , they joined them . |
| 4 | I 'm actually going to go in for it in the Telegraph 's competition , so I may as well use the same team for our one if it gets going . |
| 5 | Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others . |
| 6 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 7 | Gedge and Solowka became interested in Socialism and actually tried to discover more about it outside the school . |
| 8 | He 'd run to follow it , missed it at the traffic lights , almost caught up with it at the next . |
| 9 | We only found out about it in the British press when we arrived in Wales . |
| 10 | Never slam a door in temper , you may need to come back through it in the future : kick yourself instead . |
| 11 | The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’ |
| 12 | It is surrounded by buildings , the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse . |
| 13 | ah well , we , we did er , that house we did in , in er Kingsley , well the other side of Kingsley by Northwich for er , he 's the managing director of Tarmac for the North West Division and there he bought this house at Kingsley and er we added on to it on the kitchen was a complete wing that we built , a single storey and the roof spars had to show we had to put imitation |
| 14 | So clearly now , the , there 's some merit in looking afresh at it in the light of five B , being able to match the kind of funding that 's available there . |
| 15 | Having quoted the opening of Gormenghast in 1.4 as an example of an opaque style , we shall now return to another passage which occurs shortly after it in the same novel . |
| 16 | I measure sixty paces along the wall and then walk away from it to the nearest tree . |
| 17 | A GARAGE owner lost £4,000 takings after he drove off with it on the bonnet of his jeep . |
| 18 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
| 19 | A well was sunk in the back garden , and water could be pumped up from it into the kitchen . |
| 20 | Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again . |
| 21 | The most popular halting place on the Mallaig road occurs midway along it at the village of Glenfinnan where romance is allied to scenic beauty of a high order . |
| 22 | I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two . |
| 23 | Their prey this morning was Lawn House , lying just below it on the hillside . |
| 24 | Scotland seem to have got away with it at the moment . |
| 25 | Managers need to be alert to the influences that in combination persuade staff to take ( and condone others taking ) short cuts through the safety rules and procedures because , mistakenly , the perceived benefits outweigh the risks , and they have perhaps got away with it in the past . |
| 26 | When the car goes wrong , who ends up underneath it in the snow ? |
| 27 | And there were pillars going out from it to the rocks er grouted into the rocks . |
| 28 | Watch out for it on the ski slopes — if red is the choice , at least you 'll see it coming ! |
| 29 | But he paid dearly for it in the first place did n't he ? |
| 30 | Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment . |