Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It drains down to the moat , ’ Sir Brian mumbled . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It turns out in the end that , that , all the readings were in there it 's just a matter locating them ! |
| 4 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 5 | and then it goes through to the back , now his , although it looks |
| 6 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 7 | It 's almost sad , and it goes up at the end . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | It goes down to the throat with redness and swelling , enlarged tonsils , hot head , congested face , heavy limbs , a gradual onset . |
| 12 | Local legend states that when it hears the church clock strike twelve it goes down to the River Avon to drink . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It goes back to the question I posed above : what motivates people to study sex differences and to place such emphasis upon them ? |
| 17 | It goes back to the distinction between langue and parole , the system itself and the use of the system in actual social contexts . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And then you put a return in at the end of that and it goes back to the margin again . |
| 20 | Whether it goes back to the Iron Age or the Bronze Age , however , it has lost its original character as a wide trackway across open country . |
| 21 | She wears little make-up for work and says : ‘ It goes back to the time when I started in the job . |
| 22 | In in fact it was n't long before it was n't long before Christmas was it we we actually got together and I wrote a memo that if there is anything erm before it leaves the plant , if the tractor driver or whatever e does n't like it and it 's not acceptable then it goes back to the plant . |
| 23 | It goes back to the days when people used to worship heavenly bodies as gods . |
| 24 | It goes back to the astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria ( fl. c . . |
| 25 | it goes back into the washer |
| 26 | Huge sums of money were generated by the World Cup and it is of the greatest importance that most of it goes back into the game and its development . |
| 27 | Any sign of browning or other discolouration could be the onset of die-back , and if this is confirmed , you may be able to trim it away , but if it goes back below the node , you will have to prune back to the next growth bud irrespective of its direction . |
| 28 | I mean it 's it 's happened and I was ha I was so interested in the subject that I asked Mr for a copy of the report where it goes back in the history and of course it is the history of trading standards and , and so on . |
| 29 | So you 're filtering it before it goes in the machine and still we 're saying , why do n't we filter it as it comes out the machine , before it goes back in the tank . |
| 30 | Cramp the workpiece to the upper board and by means of a wood block ensure that it lines up with the edge of the top board . |