Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any event the presumption is rebuttable and will be fairly easily rebutted where a developer needs to retain ownership of the road in order to build it or to dedicate it as a public highway . |
| 2 | If you have already developed osteoporosis , they may be able to treat it or refer you to a specialist . |
| 3 | If you have already developed osteoporosis , they may be able to treat it or refer you to a specialist . |
| 4 | Johnny Kirk , whose family had been connected with the ‘ mayor-making ’ over the years , said they did not want to make a big production of it or turn it into a tourist attraction ; they wanted to keep it as it was , ‘ a local event for local people ’ . |
| 5 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 6 | But er , know I , I do n't think I ever heard anybody think about it or say anything about a , an air raid like , you know . |
| 7 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 8 | So what was it that pushed them into a far more extreme position towards Mary than that of 1558 ? |
| 9 | ‘ If we want a lively and thriving democracy we have to enable people to have information in a way in which they can deal with it and use it in a way which enhances their understanding of the subject . ’ |
| 10 | Harper spend f226 on repairing it and sold it to a finance company . |
| 11 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 12 | And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through . |
| 13 | She feels full of it and moulds it into a glowing ball deep within . |
| 14 | Glynn 's fax duly arrived and when it became apparent that the wiring was beyond the skills of a cack-handed caveman they promptly offered to collect the guitar ( I only live in Aberdeen ! ) , modify it and return it within a few working days . |
| 15 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 16 | An adult , by itself , will be hard-pressed to repel a determined attack on its young , but in a massed colony , outraged parents join together and surround an intruder in a cloud , shrieking angrily , diving on it and harrying it in a continuous attack . |
| 17 | We 'll probably wait for some boring moment on the tour and go over it , collect it and put it in a book for posterity ! ’ |
| 18 | Well , you take that out of the stream , take it home , bake it , powder it and put it in a box ; and you use oils with it the same as you do for the milch . |
| 19 | We have to get special stuff called bulb fibre and wet it and put it in a bowl and then we plant our bulbs in it . ’ |
| 20 | Think yourself into it and hold it for a while . |
| 21 | We have already stressed at the end of Chapter 6 how important it is to record your daily weight and also to chart it and plot it on a monthly graph . |
| 22 | This dialogue box will search for data within set criteria , extract it and write it to a pre-defined output block . |
| 23 | ‘ We were raided on Monday by customs with the specific intention of confiscating it and sticking it in a zoo somewhere , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Donna did n't manage to get her finger around the trigger but she did pull the weapon clear , closing her hand around it and using it as a club . |
| 25 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose he could have folded it and used it as a spill to get a light from the pilot on the gas water heater . ’ |
| 27 | An ugly modern extension obscures part of the Godfrey building at present and Moran says his architectural consultants have advised him to apply for permission to remove it and replace it with a gatehouse . |
| 28 | Then either dismantle clean , lubricate and reassemble the old valve , or remove it and replace it with a more modern and reliable one . |
| 29 | There once was a plan to remove it and replace it with a television transmitting tower . |
| 30 | Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact . |