Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ The experts say it dates to the first century , ’ Anna Sabatini had said when she 'd noticed Caroline admiring it . |
| 3 | ‘ How well this social organization serves the purposes of those who seek to impose it depends in the last resort upon the conceptions in the minds of the men and women they recruit for these purposes . |
| 4 | She was surprised to find it rising for the third time , but though it hardened she knew it would take an age to bring it to orgasm . |
| 5 | Standing up , he whirled the triple-pronged metal three times to gain momentum , then let it go on the third upswing . |
| 6 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 7 | However , if no effects processor is being used it doubles as a second master volume pot , offering yet another sound level for all three channels . |
| 8 | It can be used in either mono or stereo ; a guitar can be plugged in to access the onboard tuner and allow you to play along with a drum pattern ; it 's MIDI compatible , and with a Yamaha FC4 or FC5 footswitch you can start and stop the machine , tell it to drop in a fill pattern , or tell it to advance to the next pattern or song . |
| 9 | It can be used in either mono or stereo ; a guitar can be plugged in to access the onboard tuner and allow you to play along with a drum pattern ; it 's MIDI compatible , and with a Yamaha FC4 or FC5 footswitch you can start and stop the machine , tell it to drop in a fill pattern , or tell it to advance to the next pattern or song . |
| 10 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 11 | Yeah she had it , she was just going into theatre at the end of the programme , she was having it done for the fourth time |
| 12 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 13 | I just thought it followed on the next page there |
| 14 | Fall down and go right on the dodgems , go up and right through the wall , go down and collect the scroll , go up and push the crate right off the platform , fall down and push the crate left off the platform , fall down and push the crate right off the platform , push it left off the next platform , then right and left twice , jump on the big wheel on your right , jump off and at the bottom of the screen go right , collect the arrow , go left and up , go right and climb up on the platforms , go left and collect the star , fly right , up and right , push the crate right off the platform , push it left onto the button , go left , down and collect the star . |
| 15 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 16 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 17 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 18 | The overiding feeling among local people is one of relief that the party is over — what many are asking though , is why it was allowed it to start in the first place . |
| 19 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |
| 20 | they said that if I did n't get it done within the next fortnight it would close up . |
| 21 | I know the time is slipping and I hope to get it done in the next two weeks . |
| 22 | You got to get it out to get it ordered by the first week of January . |
| 23 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 24 | You had a turn out then and I think it lasted till the next spring , not like taking curtains up and down like people do now and hoover for the carpets , course the carpet would be taken out and beaten as you as you know , they were n't they were slung onto a line and beaten with anything that was handy . |
| 25 | Labour 's Shadow Chancellor John Smith responded , explaining why the great poet would definitely have joined Amnesty had it existed in the 18th century . |
| 26 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 27 | What does it do with the first spiral ( 5 ) as it makes this new spiral . |
| 28 | really so why , why does it go to the next |
| 29 | One wonders how often our players play in tournaments for if one looks at the tennis results in the daily newspapers one seldom sees the letters G.B. behind the player 's name , and if we do , seldom does it appear past the first round . |
| 30 | So how are you going to make it look like a third ? |