Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this , BCAR have an Auster V operational from Old Sarum airfield , Wilts , with plans for it to visit the D-Day beaches in 1994 during the 50th anniversary celebrations . |
| 2 | The editor added that a girl had remarked to him that ‘ she thought that many of the supposed erotic pictures in It degraded the female ’ . |
| 3 | In the 1580s the Turkey Company and the Venice Company were founded , and in 1592 they combined to form the Levant Company , which learned enough about the riches of the Indies for various members of it to organize the East India Company , which had about £68,000 trading capital for its first voyage and a charter granted on 31 December 1600 . |
| 4 | Regular users of it wrap the edges round wooden batons , secured with a few tacks , leaving these to rest on the ground , and rolling it up on the batons when the season is over . |
| 5 | Spots of it stained the thighs of her robe . |
| 6 | The big predator snapped up David 's trout bait within seconds of it hitting the water under an over hanging willow tree . |
| 7 | Part three , The Apple Pickers , withered on the bough and never appeared , though Sharp went on telling the story in an American accent , hints of it piercing the fog of half a dozen Hollywood scripts . |
| 8 | His drawings of it convey the sense of someone singing at his work . |
| 9 | I hope it helped a little , because the chances of it surviving the winter were probably slim . |
| 10 | According to Mark Raymond , senior analyst at consultancy DataPro , ‘ The action will clearly strengthen the chances of it becoming the industry standard , but it is not certain that it will influence the IEEE ’ . |
| 11 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 12 | She imagined she was cupping this white-hot power in her womb , and that the walls of it contained the fire . |