Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You can reload it using Open in the file menu . |
2 | We have come to expect the premeditated dishonesty of Conservative Central Office to be reprinted in the Daily Mail , but we do not intend to allow it to go unchallenged in the columns of Hansard . |
3 | ‘ But it got ridiculous in the end — I had nothing to eat in the house . ’ |
4 | As it got dark in the evening she became scared . |
5 | Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end . |
6 | Towards the end it got better and they worked , it was a bad start , but it got better towards the end . |
7 | It got better by the minute . |
8 | two months and she phoned up and I kind of made out it got lost in the post . |
9 | It got stuck on the fence . |
10 | I guess Waldo must have been the codename for CorelDRAW 2 during development and it got stuck in the code . |
11 | The two girls , travelling together in the back of a car as it passed close by the explosion in St Mary Axe on Friday night , are being treated for facial and eye injuries in neighbouring beds at Guy 's Hospital . |
12 | It refers first to the widening of the scope of collective bargaining to include subjects other than pay and conditions , citing as examples : the provision of time and office services for lay trade-union representatives ; man-power planning ; job and income security ; and disclosure of information . |
13 | It skimmed low over the water . |
14 | I think it goes straight in the river . |
15 | Goes round like this and then it goes square at the back . |
16 | The movement of a large number of sellers in the parallel market would drive down the price , and push up the yield until it equalled that in the discount market . |
17 | As promised last week , there 's also a four-page report on slimming which I 've found really interesting since it involves one of the finalists in our recent 16+ Model Of The Year competition . |
18 | Pus the white foam washer on to the waste outlet so that it sits flush against the underside of the outlet rim |
19 | It became easy for The Smiths to retain their true audience . |
20 | When it became apparent to the teacher that Sherman was intent on proceeding to the gorilla area , it became necessary to say ‘ No . ’ |
21 | It seemed at first sight to be a chaos of struggling men and horses , a wild mêlée ; but soon it became apparent to the newcomers that it was in fact more like a whirlpool of activity , with the ambushed English , above whom the royal standard wavered uncertainly , in the centre , whilst their more numerous attackers circled round them , smiting and thrusting but apparently making only moderate impact . |
22 | However , it became apparent during the consultation that separate charges would have borne most heavily on those about whom the hon. Lady is concerned — people in rural areas . |
23 | The work itself has maintained an almost subterranean existence in footnotes and references in many other works , yet it was not until comparatively recently that it became accessible to the non-specialist reader . |
24 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
25 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
26 | The net result was a political atmosphere ‘ in which it became impossible for the police as a whole to avoid a distortion of priorities and for individual police officers it became more and more difficult to disentangle fact from prejudice in assessing those whom they were sent to police ’ ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:134–5 ) . |
27 | The very corpses were thought to be contagious ; in some parishes attempts were made to prevent their burial in consecrated ground , and it became necessary for the parson to conduct the service under cover of darkness . |
28 | Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint . |
29 | In other words , it became possible for the intensity of development to be determined in advance by a local authority . |
30 | Instead , it became possible for the Poles to compete on the open market and to bid against the Commission with capital made available by the Polish banks . |