Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually , I already know quite a bit about it from the guide-books , ’ she began . |
| 2 | Mind you , us kids often used to sneakily eat a bit of it on the way home — happy days ! |
| 3 | On the subject of the draft union treaty , Gorbachev introduced the idea of holding a referendum on it throughout the country . |
| 4 | ‘ Because you 've been a part of it from the start . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 6 | But the servant returned with a wineskin , and at a signal poured a liquor from it into the horn vessels . |
| 7 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 8 | mm , erm , and he wh you know he is thinking well is this , is that the reason erm , so er , I do n't know , you know , er , I , I think perhaps it 's worth looking at , perhaps we can all thing about it and have a look at it at the A G M. |
| 9 | So I had a look at it from the outside and I changed my original opinion . |
| 10 | There 'd been a photograph of it in the paper , across someone 's hedge , its wings in a tree . |
| 11 | The sponsors of the bill made clear their intention to press for a vote on it within the current legislative session . |
| 12 | There is still the village well , now covered , with a monument above it to the memory of Sir Christopher Sykes , second baronet , in 1840 . |
| 13 | He made a pun on it for the title of his revue Cranks . |
| 14 | It was published in March 1986 , five months after Jones ' arrival at BYU , and he decided to give a talk about it in the departmental weekly colloquium . |
| 15 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 16 | I know we got a mention in it for the museum and that was , oh did you get your keepsake ? |
| 17 | There was quite a to-do about it in the paper . |
| 18 | Since you will hold the seller 's share certificate until you hand it over to the buyer on completion together with a transfer of it to the buyer , it 's for you to prepare the transfer , unless you send the certificate to the buyer 's conveyancers for them to prepare the transfer . |
| 19 | And er once you 've had a look at that , you can er perhaps break for coffee , and we 'll have a chat about it after the break . |
| 20 | Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world . |
| 21 | That one of Æthelred 's chief ministers received an uncomplimentary name increases the likelihood that the king did so too , and there is possibly a reference to it in the chronicler 's sarcastic or despairing comment on Edmund 's reconciliation with Eadric in 1016 , " there was never worse unræd counselled than that " ; J.C . |
| 22 | Our young people deserve honesty from ourselves and have a right to it from the Church . |
| 23 | ‘ But Oliver , ’ I said , trying to make some sense of the story , and also trying to make a bit of a joke of it at the same time , ‘ Is n't it traditional to give flowers to a girl when you arrive rather than after you 've left ? ’ |
| 24 | And er , it was on the shed roof , on the apex like that and it just had it 's front paws over like that so I quick , got the camera and through the back bedroom window erm , took a picture of it on the shed roof like that , it was just looking ! |
| 25 | there was one in the paper , there was a picture of it in the paper , and it , I 'm sure , it did say the old gate bridge , I 'm sure and it was nearly owt it was going over the bridge |
| 26 | I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here . |
| 27 | Anyway , I only have it with a slug in it in the morning . ’ |
| 28 | When they had gone Phat pulled a small notebook from his shirt pocket and with a little grunt of irritation , made a mark in it beneath the number of the barrack hut . |
| 29 | But if you put something like a wall with a slit in it in the way of the particle , the particle paths can spread out beyond the slit . |
| 30 | It sounds like it was bought new , so you probably got a guarantee with it from the manufacturer . |