Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] 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 you 're not out walking around this lovely area of the Borders try seeing it from the back of a horse — the Westertoun Riding Centre will take you out on anything from an hourly ride to a half day trek through the Lammermuir Hills .
3 This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) .
4 Some shops have taken it off the shelves .
5 This interest only loan ties the profits from a unit trust savings plan to repay it at the end of term .
6 It shows that the street has been given to the car and attempts have been made to adjust the child : on finding that the child can not be adjusted parents have removed it from the street .
7 You need a bit of luck in these games and while England have had it over the years , Wales have n't .
8 Even so , few companies have embraced it with the down-and-dirty relish of Converse — another spot features a girl getting the brand 's logo tatooed on her bottom .
9 ‘ Now that buyers have seen it on the Paris catwalks , it 's appearing again on the high street .
10 The relationships of Cuscuta are still uncertain ; on the basis of its flower structure , most taxonomists have placed it in the Convolvulaceae , the bindweed family , but Arthur Cronquist , in his Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ( 1968 ) , gives it its own family , the Cuscutaceae .
11 But when editors have seen it in the States they 've been very impressed but find it difficult to use .
12 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 .
13 Some people get awarded it before the trial period is up .
14 People have done it in the past and have regretted it .
15 Only nine people have made it to the top in winter — and one died on the way down .
16 It is very difficult to ascertain whether the many companies which use ROI do use it in the way proposed .
17 Anyone else wanting to cash in on the end of the Cold War is advised to get a move on — there 's already been considerable interest in the Wroughton air yard and the agents expect to sell it by the autumn .
18 If there is a problem try to see it from the child 's point of view .
19 Others have compared it to the sensitivity of the medium and the magnetism of the hypnotist . ’
20 ‘ A conical peak impaling heaven ’ is how George Borrow described it , while others have likened it to the Matterhorn .
21 Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power .
22 So far only a small number of women have made it to the top .
23 Since its inception in 19894 , women have made it to the shortlist , but no further .
24 And whatever views the Exchequer Chamber may have had about their decision , succeeding generations have regarded it as the starting-point of a liability wider than any that preceded it .
25 Experts have described it as the worst case to date of pesticide contamination in Britain .
26 Several clubs have made it to the quarter final , but all have faltered , the most notable being Darlington , when they lost by a single goal to HFS Loans League side Leek Town two years ago .
27 Keeping the colour going from spring to summer is not always easy , but Jenny and Michael have managed it with the density and variety of planting .
28 The Platinum Award has become a regular feature of Edinburgh College of Art 's jewellery curriculum and for several years students from the section have made it to the finals — frequently winning at least one of the prizes .
29 I think Leeds have blown it for the league and there are sadly only one winners .
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