Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [vb pp] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tragic feature of deaf education , which has bedeviled it from the beginning , is the disagreement among educators about the best method of teaching the deaf and dumb . |
| 2 | Roy Jenkins , chancellor from 1968 to 1970 , acknowledged the strain when he said : ‘ I think it is the most back-breaking job in government and indeed it has broken the back of nearly everyone who has held it since the war . ’ |
| 3 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 4 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
| 5 | She 's written it on the top of the letter . |
| 6 | So er that was good to remember and she 's got another wedding cake in August I do n't know where she 's got it on the production line . |
| 7 | I suppose she 's put it in the other room . |
| 8 | It 's been bought by the man who 's run it for the RSPCA for the last eight years . |
| 9 | Who 's left it in the |
| 10 | He has raced it at the Nurnburg Ring incorporating a five day trip and intends to explore the delights of this new venture to the utmost . |
| 11 | He has raised it with the contractor . |
| 12 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 13 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 14 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 15 | He has proved it beyond the shadow of a doubt . |
| 16 | ‘ In charge of ’ means that once a person takes a vehicle on a road or public place he normally remains in charge of that vehicle until he has taken it off the road or public place again . |
| 17 | But he has thrown it to the wind which will swirl round Windsor Park tonight by naming no fewer than THREE centre forwards in his side to face Latvia . |
| 18 | Of course , that 's right it 's cos it 's got it on the . |
| 19 | In other words it 's not part of its standard employment allocation but it 's put it in the local plan so that people know , the locals know , that that field over there those fields over there erm are not guaranteed for ever as countryside but on the other hand they 're jolly well not gon na be released unless it 's for something extremely special for which there would be a statement carried through from the structure plan , elaborated on no doubt at local level , which set the rules . |
| 20 | And it 's stuck it in the paper somewhere that er Branson has given money and er oh you know lots of other people in big business have given money . |
| 21 | He 's got he 's got an excellent department , and he 's kept it within the bank 's old fashioned , nineteenth century guidelines . |
| 22 | a contracting business , and he 's done it by the skin of his teeth . |
| 23 | he 's barred it from the house . |
| 24 | If you have n't done any business , you 've no income , so he 's left it in the pot , so he can draw another one thousand two hundred . |
| 25 | erm he 's been in it twenty years and er he 's had it on the market for some time . |
| 26 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |