Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was already half full with stagnant rain water , so Mildred filled it to the brim , then carried it back to the yard window-sill , collecting her broomstick on the way . |
| 2 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 3 | However , no sooner was the intrigue launched than Baldwin killed it by the simple expedient of deciding to remain in office and meet Parliament . |
| 4 | And if Robin gets it in the neck I shall get it in the neck and I shall be getting it in the neck because of you ! |
| 5 | The regional tourist boards should now be strongly supporting the need for the national framework , for guidance and assistance that can only come from a central body — yet they dare not speak too loudly for fear that their reduced funding will be cut even further if DoNH reallocates it to the national level . |
| 6 | Cos Paul put it on the next day . |
| 7 | It took a further five minutes before Blenkinsop made it to the phone , but to Amiss 's relief , he appeared to be both sober and reasonable : indeed he was giving a rather creditable imitation of a normal club secretary . |
| 8 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 9 | The music is lost , but Cavalieri 's contemporaries agree that it was he who , as Peri put it in the preface to his Euridice ( 1600 ) , ‘ before anyone else made our music ’ ( i.e. the ‘ nuova maniera di canto ’ ) ‘ heard on the stage ’ . |
| 10 | Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself . |
| 11 | As Leonard expressed it in the poem which — in title and texture counterbalances the title of the book : |
| 12 | But you ca n't argue with the propulsion of ‘ No Hard Shoulder To Cry On ’ , the inventiveness of ‘ Slow Rider ’ and the odyssey inscribed in ‘ Safe Surfer ’ ( though you do worry when Cope loses it in the mid-section ) . |
| 13 | Moses ' staff changed into a snake when Aaron threw it to the ground before Pharaoh . |
| 14 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 15 | She caught hold of the cart tail as Jotan drove it into the mouth of the tunnel . |
| 16 | As Crombach puts it in the foreword to Irvine and Berry ( 1981 ) ‘ the progress is as much in the psychology of the investigators as in the investigations being reported ’ . |
| 17 | As Tomsky put it at the Fifth Congress of Trade Unions on 2 October 1922 : ‘ Without the strengthening and support of transport there can be no construction of socialism . ’ |