Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 2 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 3 | You wanted it to go out in the summer |
| 4 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 5 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 6 | It turns out in the end that , that , all the readings were in there it 's just a matter locating them ! |
| 7 | Aware of the constant potential threat from gangs of gunmen , their mission was to bring the food into the country and make sure it got through to the people most deserving of it . |
| 8 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 9 | They would n't even tell their own mothers what size socks they wear , in case it got out to the papers . ’ |
| 10 | The publican 's daughter told her elder sister , who told her aunt , and so it got back to the girl 's parents . |
| 11 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 12 | First I pulled the great ladder away from the tower , sending it crashing back into the trees . |
| 13 | It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders . |
| 14 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 15 | It passed out of the family 's hands and became a mental hospital in 1935 . |
| 16 | I did n't try the grilled Greek halloumi cheese with pitta bread , but as it passed by on the way to another table I rather wished I had . |
| 17 | and then it goes through to the back , now his , although it looks |
| 18 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 19 | It 's almost sad , and it goes up at the end . |
| 20 | Now I , I often gives in , in schools , and I particularly show that slide because as you can see it goes up to the year twenty forty er now I shall be a hundred and four in the year twenty forty I wo n't ask you to calculate what age you will be in the year twenty forty it might be quite large erm |
| 21 | Once a Bill has passed its Commons ' stage it goes up to the House of Lords where the same process is repeated , except that the Committee stage is taken on the floor of the House . |
| 22 | we 've got , is at the back of the house right , and then it goes up there , then that is the houses and it goes down to the sewer in the road , so er |
| 23 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 24 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |
| 25 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 26 | The philosophy that if it goes down in the US it must be going up in Europe has meant that Smurfit is looking to Europe as its main engine for growth in the months to come , when it must decide how to spend the $1bn cash raised from the recent financial restructuring with Morgan Stanley . |
| 27 | Look every time we 've done it that 's what we also do it goes out on the manager 's report w with the minutes or with the agenda . |
| 28 | It goes back to the question I posed above : what motivates people to study sex differences and to place such emphasis upon them ? |
| 29 | It goes back to the distinction between langue and parole , the system itself and the use of the system in actual social contexts . |
| 30 | There is nothing new about the way in which the game 's ruling bodies are at loggerheads ( it goes back to the League 's formation ) but the stakes are now very high . |