Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see this thing did you buy this separately or did it come in the Walkman ? |
| 2 | Is it when a person needs help to lift a glass to his or her lips , or does it depend on the degree of dehydration ? |
| 3 | Does the amp respond or does it buckle under the strain ? |
| 4 | Or does it start on the approach side of the roundabout ? |
| 5 | Does the spider begin in the centre and move outwards down the spiral , or does it begin at the outside and work inwards ? |
| 6 | There could be no other reason , and yet that did not accord with the placidity of his face and his voice , nor did it match with the image Harry was beginning to form of him . |
| 7 | Correct me if I 'm wrong , but I can not remember major riots and civil disorder against the old rates system , nor did it contribute to the downfall of a Prime Minister . |
| 8 | The ‘ snake ’ did not have any provision for strong currency nations to help the weak , nor did it provide for the harmonisation of national economic policies . |
| 9 | Nor did it agree with the fear expressed by Lord Hewart . |
| 10 | Leeds City Council does not expect within its plan period nor does it expect within the period of the North Yorkshire alterations , commuting will disappear . |
| 11 | This view was not widely held , nor does it accord with the observational data on the men 's practice while doing beat duty . |
| 12 | Nor does it apply to the colliding electromagnetic wave solution of Bell and Szekeres ( 1974 ) in which impulsive gravitational waves are generated by the collision . |
| 13 | Second , where there is a reference to time , for instance the past reference of former in ( 36 ) , it does not apply to the putative referent of the noun phrase , who still lives ; nor does it apply to the intensional entity , which is still available to any speaker of the sentence ; rather it applies in some way to the status of the property inherent in the noun ( king , in this example ) . |
| 14 | Nor does it deal with the historical obligation for British Rail to maintain hundreds of listed buildings . |
| 15 | And I 'm going to have this white frill sp er erm roll , and I 'm going to roll the fabric I 'm going to leave all the pleating , not cut into that , but cut the valance platform and fold it over if you understand me and make it go over the the pole . |
| 16 | Their activity amazed and baffled even the sceptical Bernier : ‘ They tell any person his thoughts , cause the branch of a tree to blossom and to bear fruit within an hour , hatch an egg in their bosom within fifteen minutes , producing what ever bird may be demanded , and make it fly around the room . ’ |
| 17 | She came to the last button and , plucking up all her courage , slipped the dress off her shoulders and let it drop to the floor . |
| 18 | Adam blew the feather into the air and let it drift to the floor . |
| 19 | She unzipped her dress and let it slide to the floor . |
| 20 | One says he do n't think so , and someone else makes a crack about reggae , and I realize this gun I had pointing at her seems to have drooped like soft rubber , so I relax my arm and let it point to the floor . |
| 21 | Stella dropped the torch and let it roll into the wings as the children brought their palms together to save Tinkerbell . |
| 22 | Collect the spray can then walk to Candy Most Dandy and spray the bin , grab the spray paint and let it rip on the plant pot . |
| 23 | Terror gripped her so completely that she was incapable of opening it and let it fall to the floor where — she very nearly followed it in a faint . |
| 24 | Then he unpinned the length of chiffon and let it fall to the floor . |
| 25 | She watched as if dreaming as he untied his kilt , all he was wearing , and let it fall to the warm ground beneath them . |
| 26 | He lit a book match and let it fall among the tangle . |
| 27 | I come to its edge and see it cool amongst the rushes , a place of little fish and soft green grass . |
| 28 | But does it apply to the case of the housewife ? |
| 29 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |