Example sentences of "that [verb] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient . |
| 2 | It is recommended that this error log is never allowed to grow so large that typing it to the screen takes a significant amount of time . |
| 3 | The building sits on bearings that isolate it from the ground . |
| 4 | For example , does an animal recoil from a naked flame because it can feel the heat or because it can ‘ see ’ the heat — or because it has some completely different sense that alerts it to the danger ? |
| 5 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 6 | The area below the stair then becomes part of the lounge , extending back from the glazed folding doors that separate it from the dining-room ( Fig 48 ) . |
| 7 | Johnny Rotten sings flat , the song is laughably naive , and the overall feeling is of a third-rate Who imitation , but even so there 's a certain neurotic aggression that distinguishes it from the rest of this week 's insipid bunch . ’ |
| 8 | Similar preoccupations dominated the issues that took It into the spring of 1967 . |
| 9 | I am sure this would only be a minority but it is always the minority that spoil it for the majority . |
| 10 | It is an act of love to roll the toothpaste tube if we know that squeezing it in the middle irritates our partner . |
| 11 | The semiotic surfaces as rhythmic pulses , disturbances in logic , and other ‘ poetic ’ mechanisms that mark it as the source of the ‘ poetic ’ in writing ( 1974:22–30 , see also Brooke-Rose 1981:342 ) . |
| 12 | The control over text and graphics it allows is immense , and some of the functions that differentiate it from the rest of the Windows word processor league are particularly appropriate for a word processor — sentence selection being a case in point . |
| 13 | Watt 's Nine Men ( 1943 ) depicts a group of soldiers making their last stand in a desert hut , which has a dramatic intensity that pushes it to the edge of documentary fiction . |
| 14 | And then I 'll sell it to another store that sells it on the ground floor . ’ |
| 15 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |