Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the heroin shows up in the flour , Gary wants to return it to the mob . |
| 2 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 3 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 4 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 5 | Unlike age , sex and social class , ethnicity as such has not been used as a census category ( though the OPCS plans to use it in the 1991 Census ) . |
| 6 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 7 | You need a bit of luck in these games and while England have had it over the years , Wales have n't . |
| 8 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 9 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
| 10 | Dolly had reduced it to the size of an irregular-sided marble . |
| 11 | The row centres on subsidies to French farmers — whose votes are vital if Delors hopes to make it to the French Presidency . |
| 12 | Joseph had made it through the gate , but was cornered by the populace in an alley . |
| 13 | Rocky may get his chance if England midfielder David Batty fails to make it for the Boro game . |
| 14 | In despair at the greasiness of her hair , Daisy had washed it in the river — how the hell had women coped in biblical times ? — and it had dried all crinkly . |
| 15 | They said the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , had discussed the proposal with the Egyptian president , Hosni Mubarak , in Cairo on Wednesday and Egypt had put it to the United States . |
| 16 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 17 | They later discovered he 'd broken his leg in a road accident 6 weeks earlier , and although Odey had taken it to the vet he 'd ignored advice to have it operated on . |
| 18 | Charles tried to make it down the stairs with his eyes closed to allay the pain . |
| 19 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 20 | He had n't been in the lodge since Helena Naulls had left it on the death of her husband . |
| 21 | Barry had flung it into the hedge . |
| 22 | President Carter had applied it in the form of an embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union after the Christmas 1979 invasion of Afghanistan ; and it was to prove as ineffective as the Arab oil embargo . |
| 23 | With a gang of laddish stooges grooving alongside to encourage him , Barry continued to lord it over the stage , munching an apple whilst reclining against the drum riser or simply feigning sleep flat on his back . |
| 24 | To begin with , the Gnomes thought it a fine idea to be part of the traditional Fidchell and Bith of the Bog-Hat told how the Wolfkings had played it during the Winter Solstice with solid gold figures studded with ivory and pearl , which the Gnomes always had the supplying of . |
| 25 | Greg had brought it from the side-table for her . |
| 26 | We 've got it in , Geoff 's got it in the car we 're gon na try again on the way home . |
| 27 | Carbon tet 's main use is as a feedstock for CFC production ( and this is clearly going to dwindle away ) but ICI does sell it to the laboratory suppliers for repackaging . |
| 28 | What if Ben had left it with the man in Lancaster ? |
| 29 | Madeleine had recorded it in the baby book . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , Frank Kermode has applied it to the fictions of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark ( ‘ no matter what the characters say they all speak in some version of her voice ’ ) , while linking it with Bakhtin 's distinction , well-known now both in Russia and in the West , between the ‘ monologic ’ and the ‘ dialogic ’ imagination . |