Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Hungary 's Democratic Forum , whose Hungary-first populism puts it on the right , also objects to the pace of reform that the Free Democrats want .
2 He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed .
3 A first attempt to introduce it in the 1850s failed .
4 And the hump-backed blueness behind her spread a flat sheet of flesh as the first sunbeam touched it in the valley of shadow .
5 And then he did it again in 1944 , that time from east to west , the first man to make it across the top of Canada in both directions .
6 Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home .
7 On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track .
8 Unisys Corp claims that the launch of its Communications Access Processor for linking Unix computers onto an SNA network last July ( UX No 396 ) — and which last week made it into the UK — has attracted ‘ rave reviews ’ .
9 But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table .
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