Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was half full of water and the ice had cut through the wood flow down the river , cos the water was coming in like hell and er cos one thing I had to do about it , had like a chain in the , in th in the boat , so we pulled the chain out , I pulled the chain out first and go just got the , the erm hull just above water so I bail the boat out with a bucket chuck it down the side right quick . |
| 2 | I think I a bit put it in the back now . |
| 3 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 4 | I tied a tarpaulin over the car and paid a farmer with a horse to drag it through the streets of the city and out to the Plainpalais gate . |
| 5 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 6 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 7 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 8 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 9 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 10 | what a shame put it in the bank |
| 11 | Said Granada 's Controller of Sport Paul Doherty : ‘ I told the ITV lawyers that I consider this unfair restriction of trade and I want ITV as a body to challenge it in the courts . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid this letter has been delayed as I have n't had a chance to get it to the Embassy before today . |
| 13 | When it comes to the end of that subordinate clause , you need a comma to separate it from the main clause , which is then going to follow . |
| 14 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 15 | The shadowy form of a woman crossed it before the Empress moved out of Isabel 's line of vision . |
| 16 | Northern Ireland are all but out of the competition , needing a miracle to make it to the US , Scotland are already out and Wales are still in with a chance . |
| 17 | ‘ Isobel will get a man to do it in the spring . ’ |
| 18 | The usual way to overcome this problem is to cover the specimen with a liquid to protect it from the vacuum and then increase the power of the electron beam so that it can penetrate the protective fluid . |
| 19 | It found it ‘ indisputable that under Article 103 of the Charter the Member State called upon to apply the sanctions could not claim to be debarred from doing so by a treaty binding it to the non-Member State which was the subject of the sanctions . ’ |
| 20 | To build it on the site between East Hanney and Steventon , Thames Water would have to buy up 4 farms and 16 houses , divert the road between the two villages , landscape the area around the water and build a tunnel connecting it to the Thames . |
| 21 | The 4 square mile reservoir would cover an area south-west of Abingdon in Oxfordshire and would mean Thames Water buying up 4 farms and 16 homes , diverting the road between East Hanney and Steventon , landscaping the 80 foot embankment around the water , and building a tunnel connecting it to the Thames . |
| 22 | But it is extremely unreasonable to suppose that all ( perhaps any ) human beings act from that motivation , either , and if morality is to be a generally human phenomenon , it is simply a mistake to equate it from the beginning with such exigently Kantian formulations , and it is a mistake even from the point of view of the human sciences . |
| 23 | He walked across to the window , and producing a knife ran it round the paper sealing strip , then opened it . |
| 24 | Quotes of £37 17s 8d. for the bike shed and £145 15s 0d. for a veranda extension were both thought too expensive , but as the bike shed was Minuted as being urgently needed , the next meeting ( three months later ) appointed a sub-committee to consider it with the constraint not to spend more than £15 ! |
| 25 | ‘ I try to , ’ he conceded , then lifted a hand to rub it over the dark growth of beard on his jaw . |
| 26 | Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there . |
| 27 | The judge then held that , since the information was material , the defendants , as agents , were under a duty to disclose it to the plaintiff . |
| 28 | It is not always possible to deliver a module just at the time a trainee needs it for the purposes of SVQ assessment . |
| 29 | In particular , he reversed his previous position that Greece would recognize Macedonia if it adopted a prefix to distinguish it from the northern Greek province of Macedonia . |
| 30 | It was like a fog to see it from the main road . |