Example sentences of "[verb] it [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earth is trying to move on a straight line through space-time , but the curvature of space-time produced by the mass of the sun causes it to go in a circle around the sun . |
| 2 | PI KI SKAB WE The parasite that afflicts man and Tig Gag in its various larval stages and , while burrowing in the brain of the Tig Gag , causes it to speak like a man |
| 3 | Has it fallen off the roof ? |
| 4 | It 's quite likely she calls a taxicab every time and has it waiting round the corner out of sight . |
| 5 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 6 | Nor has it dealt with the question of a new citizenship law , though the Solingen atrocity has revived debate about this . |
| 7 | Has it occurred to the Secretary of State to discuss that with the CBI and perhaps also to nudge his colleague , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , to try to change that trend ? |
| 8 | Has it occurred to the Minister that the problem is that there are plenty of young people camped out in the open air , but that they do not have any work ? |
| 9 | How much has it changed in the costume and the ploughs , nowadays compared to when you were young ? |
| 10 | Zeroing it amounts to the application — within section 1(1) ( a ) — of a false trade description . |
| 11 | When you are in a situation where you have to clean up after your dog it is advisable to encourage it to defecate on a surface which will make the task easier . |
| 12 | Wherever you are out with your dog try to encourage it to defecate in a place where you can clean up easily afterwards . |
| 13 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 14 | For a market economy to work it depends on the existence of certain values . |
| 15 | Stepping down at the end , he lay on the bed of nails and rolled across it to the foot of the ladder , which he climbed , pausing on each blade to detach a yellow paper prayer flag and send it fluttering to the ground . |
| 16 | He flung the bedcovers off and stood up , shaking and staring wildly into the darkness , trying to identify the threat , knowing it had to be the Corsican and bracing himself for the shotgun blast that would cut him in half , disembowel him , blow his head off , send it bouncing across the floor of the bedroom . |
| 17 | The eggs , even before they hatch , require great care , reducing the time a parent bird can spend finding food for itself and keeping it sitting on the ground or in the branches of a tree where it is exposed to much more danger than it would be in the air . |
| 18 | He twisted down into the chair , holding his head and keeping it averted from the window . |
| 19 | Excluding its OEM partners , which include Fujitsu Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Fuji Xerox Co , Nippon Steel Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and other powerful players , Sun had an 11.4% share of the market last fiscal , putting it in fourth place , but if the OEM sales are included it shoots to the top with a 22.7% share . |
| 20 | At 0630hrs a PBY spotted a Japanese midget submarine as it approached the harbour defences and shot and depth charged it to sink in the harbour . |
| 21 | She nodded and sipped : he leaned his head forward and she brought the glass to his mouth : he finished it and she let it fall on a bush of discarded clothing as he swooped down with his hand , lifted her dress clear over her waist and then , as she struggled to help him , tugged it over her head . |
| 22 | The next day Julia woke with all the trivial but uncomfortable symptoms of a developing cold , and she wondered whether she had caught it dawdling by the edge of the icy lagoon . |
| 23 | In 1856 he exhibits on his lawn a stuffed crocodile he has brought back from the East : enabling it to bask in the sun again for the first time in 3,000 years . |
| 24 | Each Mechonoid was moulded in fibre-glass on a circular base and , like the Dalek , fitted with castors enabling it to roll along the floor . |
| 25 | Phhor stinks it stinks like a sewer |
| 26 | The outside world first became aware of the word ‘ orang-utan ’ in 1641 , when a Dutchman called Nicholas Tulp used it to refer to an ape brought to Europe . |
| 27 | Smell it hanging in the air , |
| 28 | We found it buried in the grass and it obviously been put there deliberately to maim . |
| 29 | I found it folded in a corner , still heavy with the perfume of the Sheikha who had given it to me . |
| 30 | After a brief search , I found it tucked into a corner , guarded by the pikes and pennants of the Twenty-First Lancers . |