Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 2 | I smelled a sewage sort of smell during the night and another passenger reported it to the crew . |
| 3 | They get some man to do it at the moment . |
| 4 | THE publisher 's comment on this book compares it with The Organisation Man and Future Shock , claiming that once in a while a book so accurately captures ‘ … the essence of its time that it becomes the spokesman for that decade ’ . |
| 5 | It is one thing to draw money from the public in terms of council tax and it 's another thing to spend it in the way you intend to do it . |
| 6 | This status exempts it from the need to obtain full FSA authorisation , but only while its FSA-regulated business is limited to " arranging deals in investments " . |
| 7 | Yinka , a World Championship Finalist twelve months ago , overcame glandular fever earlier this year to make it to the Olympics . |
| 8 | So the bet is that the prime minister now has two years — with luck , much calmer than the past one — to start putting a programme into law , followed by another year to sell it to the people in the run-up to re-election . |
| 9 | Right , now this time do it with the calculator . |
| 10 | When you become more proficient , you may want to retrim ; at this stage correct it with the stick , or just let it crab , since this will help to reduce problems during the more difficult slowing down phase . |
| 11 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 12 | It effectively charges it because if you 've got six thousand allowances and you withdraw that amount putting it against the total income it means that you 're actually paying tax on those by deduction . |
| 13 | This is not only the case of small linguistic communities vulnerable to quite modest demographic changes , such as the thinly-populated hills and coasts of Welsh-speaking Wales , or Estonia , whose 1m or so Estonian speakers would in any case place it at the very lower limit of populations capable of maintaining a modern linguistic culture at all levels . |
| 14 | Any attempt to evade it for the sake of the ‘ purity of the ‘ socialist ideal ’ ’ , 'he warned , would simply lead to a further expansion of the bureaucratic apparatus and to the dictatorship of the producer . |
| 15 | But because of its fierce realism and deep antipathy to authority ( whether it comes in the guise of nationalism or Catholicism , ) this culture is likely to resist any attempt to include it in the cosy consensus of Dublin as Europe 's cultural capital . |
| 16 | If the jurisdiction were discretionary , no refusal to exercise it nor any failure to exercise it by the House of Lords would constitute a breach of Article 6 , but , again , if the appeal goes ahead , it must be by a process which the Convention recognises as fair . |
| 17 | If only he could get enough room to swing it against the Eye … |
| 18 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 19 | She did n't in any way splash it across the newspapers because that ruined her sister 's chances . |
| 20 | However , if the marble has enough energy to take it to the top of the hump then it will , of course , roll down the other side . |
| 21 | Alternating euphoria and despair , intense struggle and the depths of apathy are found in Chopin 's piano music , which from exile in Paris celebrated Poland 's folk music and at the same time elevated it to the role of a respectable and specifically bourgeois art form . |
| 22 | But the aim now is not necessarily to liberate sexuality ( the sexual drive ) , but to eroticize the social while at the same time releasing it from the grip of sexuality especially as manifested in the ideology of sexual difference . |
| 23 | The early Earth had little atmosphere to shield it from the searing heat of the sun at mid-day , or the freezing cold of night . |