Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision has caused considerable controversy and been criticized as an excessive response to the problem , but Mayor Jean Baylaucq justified it on the grounds that the bears constituted a threat to animals and humans . |
| 2 | Bert Burnell sees it in the number of passengers travelling on each of his routes . |
| 3 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 4 | The captain of the Rebecca Sims described it in the ship 's log as a brownish-grey reptile at least 45 metres long . |
| 5 | Now remove the yarn from the yarn guide and on Silver and Knitmaster machines reposition it on the yarn guide on the other side ( on the side that is now nearest the knitting ) . |
| 6 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 7 | Lifting the spoon from the bowl , Tuan Ti Fo placed it to the boy 's lips , tilting it gently . |
| 8 | Christian Lacroix 's C'est la Vie dress : Sylvie Guillem wore it on the night |
| 9 | The word came from the dressing room that it was Martin Foyle ; I saw Andy Melville kick it into the net — what did n't I see ? |
| 10 | During production , or soon afterwards , the Alexis Master adapted it for the use of St Christina of Markyate ( born c .1096 , q.v. ) by adding the Alexis and Emmaus drawings , intended to echo incidents in Christina 's own life . |
| 11 | As the New York Daily News put it on the eve of the ballot : ‘ The Muck Stops Here ! ’ |
| 12 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
| 13 | Leonard , who plays more golf in the summer than bowls , partners Irish international senior skip and Lisnagarvey club mate Noel Graham in their bid to win the Irish pairs title for the first time since the brilliant Fisher and Ringland combination won it for the Lisburn club in 1970 . |
| 14 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 15 | According to Smith , the illness was described in the language of the day as a putrid fever with buboes on the face and body , which caused Dr Crawford to compare it to the plague . |
| 16 | The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million . |
| 17 | Mr Elkington rammed it into the bottom of one of his ineffective ditches and , to his astonishment , water burst up like a geyser . |
| 18 | In 1848 Prince Windischgrätz turned it into the headquarters of his General Staff ; it then became a special school for the Communist Party and is now being restored as the Academy of Music . |
| 19 | If that is how Cardiff High School was when Goronwy Rees knew it in the year of my birth , then it was not very different eleven years later . |
| 20 | Viscount Dunedin expressed it in the following words : |
| 21 | The existence of such an educational establishment aroused widespread interest amongst the intelligentsia , causing Dr Samuel Johnson to inspect it at the end of his tour of the Hebrides in 1773 . |
| 22 | So the Old Parsonage remained until the American Mr Stucley bought it from the church in the 1930s , thereafter leaving it to the National Trust . |
| 23 | Endill ran to the cart as Mr McDoodle brought it to the house . |
| 24 | Many of its people were farmers too , though several were merchants as well — two drapers , a mercer , a haberdasher and a wax-chandler , and in 1584 Archdeacon Robert Johnson chose it as the location of one of the two grammar schools with which he endowed the county . |
| 25 | He had heard Yorkshire people substitute it for the word ‘ self ’ , as in : ‘ I 've been there me sen ! ’ |
| 26 | Tom knight sees it in the occupancy levels in his hotels . |
| 27 | ‘ I asked Sir John to burn it to the ground but Rachel played him like a piece of string around her finger . |
| 28 | ‘ That legislation has yet to be introduced to Parliament , ’ said Mr Naish adding that delays could give rise to further problems and he had urged Mr Howard to get it onto the statute books as urgently as possible . |
| 29 | Mr Karim said : ‘ After being served with a writ , Mr Lamb threw it in the dustbin . |
| 30 | Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water . |