Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It is also the same week that the Bank of England ( whose governor was last year awarded a £22,000 pay increase ) admitted that it had been over-optimistic when three months ago it predicted the recession was ending . |
2 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
3 | And it went to seven months because they did have a downturn in the business so it pushed the quantities back a bit . |
4 | Some years ago it decided the damage must be repaired , and Derek Owen , a landscape surveyor with the company , who retired recently , was put in charge of that repair . |
5 | Two years ago it slashed the gift to £24,000 in protest at the Tories ' high interest rate policy . |
6 | It was a tragedy , but in many ways also it typified the kind of commitment which has characterised Salvationists throughout Army history . |
7 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
8 | Come holidays abroad it became the thing to sport a deep tan . |
9 | Use the stand alone system so it gets the date that we 're going to collect it , it can say all the things that we 've said , it 's , you know , we wrote to you some time ago and , and er we , we did n't get the money if you do n't , as you said , if you do n't send us this money we 're gon na sounds like a threat does n't it , if you do n't send this money within the next three months we 'll automatically collect it together with your regular premium due on the date |