Example sentences of "it [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 2 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 3 | They may feel New York for the first time because its fast-dealing busyness is something the screen does n't catch and may smell it for the first time if they come in high summer but one of the great first sights of the world is gone for ever . |
| 4 | Nuisances and abominations of all sorts are without scruple committed to the streets at any hour of the day of night , to await the morning visit of the scavenger to remove them : and happy indeed is it for the humble pedestrian if his eye and nose alone suffer from these ejectments ; happy indeed if he comes not in contact with them , as they make their unceremonious exit from window or door … |
| 5 | I support the intention of the Bill and its important deterrent aspects , and I shall support it for the same reason as the hon. Member for Oxford , East , but I must confess that I do so with some reluctance at this stage . |
| 6 | I would rather have no bolts and the romantic ethic — leave it for the next generation if it requires a bolt . |
| 7 | Er I mean it brings it about the same price as we 're paying anyway does n't it ? |
| 8 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 9 | Pop the end of the yarn beneath this cone , threading it through the little arm as usual and away you go . |
| 10 | I 've just p is it near the front door because I 've just put it back on her . |
| 11 | One it so build it in brick in the traditional manner , bonding it into the existing wall as you go . |
| 12 | Yeah , you 've got to do it with the right inflect as well . |
| 13 | He had watched her apply a smear of eye-black below her lower lashes , then dust it with the palest face-powder until her eyes appeared extra large and dark-rimmed . |
| 14 | The past by its nature is only indirectly available to us ; we can not enter it with the same immediacy as the present . |
| 15 | Since cooperation was mutual trading — a genuine alternative to traditional retailing which existed to generate profit — the act of levying a profits tax challenged the integrity and identity of the movement , endowing it with the same status as private trading . |
| 16 | So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut . |
| 17 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 18 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 19 | Writers of textbooks have a clear view of what they are trying to achieve , and , encouraged by their own success when developing the material , too easily believe that other teachers will use it in the same way when guided only by a well-written instruction , or even just the ‘ clear ’ implication of style in the material itself . |
| 20 | Look on it in the same way as the treads on your bike or car tyres . |
| 21 | Treat it in the same way as black spot , with particular attention to clearing up fallen leaves on to the fire . |
| 22 | Lay the curtain out flat with the interlining uppermost and apply the hemmed lining to it in the same way as for Lined Curtains , but lockstitching along the same lines as the interlining and along all seams . |
| 23 | The Capital Plan for next year appears to treat it in the same way as capital receipts from sales , with the total being pooled and divided between the various programmes . |
| 24 | Schools may , and often do , challenge society , but they can not avoid also reflecting it in the same way as revolutionaries normally rebel only against some of the characteristics of a society — others they have internalized too deeply . |
| 25 | I think the most important thing about community arts is that it 's arts for the community , and invariably one is not approaching it in the same way as one would market , say , a show at the Theatre Royal for instance . |
| 26 | MIPS claims all RISC chips offer roughly the same performance and that its R4400 96 SPECint89 score puts it in the same league as HP , distinguished by its significantly lower price and wide availability . |
| 27 | If I 'm allowed to have food , why ca n't I have it in the same cell as Elaine ? ’ |
| 28 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 29 | That 's good news says Pyramid , because SNI is likely to get closer to it in the short term while these issues are being resolved , whatever the eventual outcome . |
| 30 | We only found out about it in the British press when we arrived in Wales . |