Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | They need to be at their best tomorrow to beat Orrell and make it to the semi-finals . |
2 | THE estranged wife of a cheating council boss told last night how she took his £22,000 Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of the town hall where he works . |
3 | The 28year-old blonde jumped into his Hregistered Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of Gosport town hall in Hampshire . |
4 | Burning and looting the countryside as he went , Edward took Caen and subjected it to a brutal sacking . |
5 | ‘ Anybody could have driven it to Exeter and dumped it at the station without leaving traces that would be discovered by anything short of a pukka forensic examination . ’ |
6 | He pushed the wadding carefully into the cartridge before taking it from Benny and placing it on the garden wall . |
7 | The local East Midlands electricity board could take power generated at Corby and feed it into the local grid . |
8 | Despite high fences and danger warning signs , children managed to get into the remains of Lyppard Grange at Warndon in Worcester and use it as an adventure playground . |
9 | The British Foreign Office analysed the constitution of North Korea and compared it with the constitutions of other communist states . |
10 | The American occupation misunderstood the nature of the unrest in south Korea and attributed it to the machinations of the communists . |
11 | Maufe imported Dutch brick under instruction from the Dutch Mr Detterding and set it round the flints , which were ‘ knapped ’ , that is , cut to make a smooth face rather than left whole . |
12 | Police intercepted the Peugeot and chased it into the lower Shankill , where the gunmen jumped out . |
13 | Police intercepted the Peugeot and chased it into the lower Shankill , where the gunmen jumped out . |
14 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
15 | The Second World War set back Stalin 's hopes of completely rebuilding Moscow and replacing it with a new Soviet city , centrally planned and co-ordinated like the economy . |
16 | Then he charged to the other end to anticipate a precise through ball from McMahon and reach it just before the advancing Lukic and flick it into the empty net . |
17 | At first , he says , people did not understand what she wanted , but she came to learn about the Masai and write it in a book . |
18 | So he accompanied the engine to Brooklands and installed it in the owner 's aeroplane . |
19 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |
20 | Schwarz rammed a magazine into the butt of a Walther PPK and handed it to the Irishman . |
21 | I parked Armstrong on Soho Square and hoofed it round the corner into Dean Street , keeping an eye out for the fly-posters to see if anyone interesting was playing in the vicinity . |
22 | Shoppers fled after a man carried the device into the post office in Castle Street and left it on the counter . |
23 | It 's a sobering thought that in a million years or so , the Thames will break through somewhere around Poplar High Street and turn it into a proper island . |
24 | The next day he reported its receipt to the House of Commons and forwarded it to the Treasury with some papers explaining the background to the competition . |
25 | This route begins from Glen Nevis and you can take your car up to the head of the Glen and leave it in a packed car park , if you can find a space between the ice-cream vans and hot-dog vendors . |
26 | The first congress of the ruling Popular Front , held in Ouagadougou , the capital , on March 1-4 , decided to draft a constitution for Burkina Faso and put it to a referendum within six months . |
27 | Three things I 've always wanted to do : go to Machu Picchu , put my foot in Lake Titicaca and make it with an oriental chick . |
28 | The Peacock Committee was convinced that it was no longer possible to recommend ‘ no change ’ to either the licence fee system or the funding structure of broadcasting as a whole ; the differences between the two sources of revenue would create recurring crises for the BBC and put it at a competitive disadvantage compared to the ITV structure . |
29 | They drove back to the Hall , and Diane grilled a beefburger for Jed and put it on a bun . |
30 | They brought out the launcher and fastened it to its base , and Diane spread out some plastic sheet for Jed and weighted it with the box of clays . |