Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 2 | When the heroin shows up in the flour , Gary wants to return it to the mob . |
| 3 | Still tied together with the strands of wool we moved towards the fence intending to drape it on the wire . |
| 4 | This interest only loan ties the profits from a unit trust savings plan to repay it at the end of term . |
| 5 | Heritage groups had feared it would leave the country after the Tate Gallery failed to buy it before the sale . |
| 6 | However , the museum plans to display it in the spring in the Egyptian galleries . |
| 7 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 8 | When Maastricht was agreed 11 months ago , all countries pledged to ratify it before the end of this year . |
| 9 | They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess . |
| 10 | Rochlin ‘ feminizes ’ masculinity to just the degree required to rehabilitate it as the dominant term in the masculine/feminine binary , and he does this through the by now familiar move of positing homosexuality as the inadequate yet threatening third term . |
| 11 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 12 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 13 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 14 | The row centres on subsidies to French farmers — whose votes are vital if Delors hopes to make it to the French Presidency . |
| 15 | Unmistakable , even though I had never seen one before ; a big bird , brown and grey with a red throat , low in the water , where the wind-rippled surface managed to camouflage it in the most extraordinary way . |
| 16 | Rocky may get his chance if England midfielder David Batty fails to make it for the Boro game . |
| 17 | If the Revenue accept that the court order or agreement between the parties created a settlement on the ground that the interests of the beneficiaries are not of the same quality as the wife has a right of occupation ( see Booth v Ellard [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1443 ) Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act , 1992 , s225 provides that the gain accruing to a trustee on the disposal of settled property shall in effect be free from capital gains tax where during the period of ownership the house has been the only or main residence of the person entitled to occupy it under the terms of the settlement . |
| 18 | ‘ Whit ’ was dropped from the title but people failed to recognise it as the old Bradford Whit Walk , so the event reverted to the original name . |
| 19 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 20 | GPU alleges that the commission failed to warn it about the safety hazards of the Three Mile Island reactor . |
| 21 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 22 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 23 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 24 | Dorothy 's Wrinkled Stocking tearoom — named after broom-wielding battleaxe Norah Batty — has been overrun with trippers since BBC chiefs chose to feature it in the evergreen Pennine series . |
| 25 | She got the reel of film through customs without any trouble , and a man came to collect it at the hotel . |
| 26 | The obvious thing to do is raise income tax , but the Government pledged to reduce it in the election manifesto — just after the commitment to the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) . |
| 27 | Though its airs of faded grandeur seems to place it in the Anglo-Ireland of Molly Keane — a world of dwindling resources and sinking expectations — it is far from being another monument to the old Ascendancy ( ‘ Protestants on horseback ’ , as Brendan Behan once dubbed them ) . |
| 28 | The Cabinet in turn chose to treat it as the beginning of the General Strike . |
| 29 | ‘ The vessel , from Bangor Marina , was half-sunk , but the Hummer and the lifeboat managed to tow it into the harbour and beach it on a mud bank , ’ the spokesman said . |
| 30 | An acceptable reason for not introducing an FE funding council — although I do not say that the reason would be either accurate or right — would be if the Government intended to merge it with the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council . |