Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the computer successfully identified it as an Exocet . |
| 2 | One inmate then aimed it at the perimeter fence of trouble-torn Lindholme jail , Doncaster , as other prisoners pelted warders with bricks . |
| 3 | His car barely made it across the finish line , spluttering and choking , before the fuel supply dried up . |
| 4 | I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that |
| 5 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |
| 6 | ‘ It is n't to say The Wedding Present just treat it like a job , it is just that they have natural courtesy and manners . |
| 7 | Cos I w he was , he was in the Post Office one day and he saw this old woman and she 'd just cashed all her giros and this bloke just nicked it in the Post Office . |
| 8 | Step 2 CAPTION — To add an icon just drag it onto the right-hand set of icons . |
| 9 | Step 1 CAPTION — To delete an icon just drag it off the right-hand set of icons . |
| 10 | The latter is a recognized field of work in its own right and some people in it might be surprised to find themselves called public relations operators , but the speciality derives from public relations and the counselling , reconciliatory and persuasive nature of the work comfortably fits it within the broader spectrum of public relations practice . |
| 11 | That bloke probably took it for a ride he said . |
| 12 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 13 | no , what I 'd like you to do is , I want you to put it on the erm , you can take it home later , put it on the windowsill with your plan , do n't lose your plan please put it on the windowsill your plan you need to have your plans with you , now you can start tidying up your mess and |
| 14 | Water splashes from a faucet into a jerrican , and when it fills the boy sluggishly replaces it from a line of empty ones . |
| 15 | Boiled cabbage almost taste it through the dusty diamonds of glass . |
| 16 | How does a woman with a large inheritance commonly bestow it on a man ? |
| 17 | The delicious Rob Walker who , in a journalistic disguise , was and is still around in the sport , must be the only other man I ever met in FI who while at the heart of the sport never took it with the grim tenacity with which the more parvenu consider the business of winning and losing . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I know , ’ said Constance , ‘ but Mum always fed it to the cat . |
| 19 | A high failure rate ensures that only those with the right aptitude for the job eventually make it to the Company . |
| 20 | Were the bishop or incumbent to prosecute the question of voidance in the church courts , a writ of prohibition soon removed it to the king 's judges . |
| 21 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 22 | The seller then sold it to the dealer for £2 . |
| 23 | Araminta almost had it as a child , but it went fair — and then mouse , poor wretch ! ’ |
| 24 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |
| 25 | But what evidence has emerged about dietary fibre certainly puts it among the ‘ good guys ’ , helping to protect us from heart disease , as opposed to the ‘ bad guys ’ like animal fats and smoking . |
| 26 | the , Russ ' erm , done , well he 's already got a wall , just make it a bit bigger , an existing wall just taking it around the back so gon na do that in the summer I 'll erm , well in the spring , yeah gives er a bit , a bit of a practice |
| 27 | Long before this time wooden huts were made in these areas , by primitive peoples , which had domed structures built over square forms supported by means of planks set across the angles of the square thus making it into an octagon . |
| 28 | Laidlaw filled the cup with hot water then placed it on the table in front of her . |
| 29 | Here the general principle is that those who receive the largest amount of money overall receive it at the least frequent intervals and rank highest in the hierarchy of power . |
| 30 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |