Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep the weight well towards the left foot and push the ball down low , letting it bobble its way up the bank . |
| 2 | It is a general feature of the education system that both through its programmed and ‘ hidden ’ curricula it plays its part in the socialisation of the individual and in social reproduction . |
| 3 | And the place is not simply the background or backdrop against which the action occurs ; it plays its part in the drama . |
| 4 | It turns its attention to the Isle of Wight Regatta . |
| 5 | The causal chain between stimulus and response had a kind of inevitability , an independence from processes which we would normally regard as mental : it by-passed our knowledge of the friend 's personality , history , and basic assumptions about human motivation , the orderliness of conduct , and so forth . |
| 6 | A phenomenon which can occur on a high speed reach when air bubbles work their way down the skeg and cause it to lose its grip in the water . |
| 7 | It points its finger at the odious hypocrisies of AIDS-sufferer Roy Cohn , one of Senator McCarthy 's henchmen . |
| 8 | If this government channelled its resources against employers who disregard the health and safety legislation as much as it channels its energy at the trade unions through the Employment Act I 'm sure we would see a great decrease in accidents and |
| 9 | ‘ And it spoils our view of the sea . ’ |
| 10 | However closely it cultivated its links with the labour movement , the UDC was not simply a device for maintaining Labour politics during the wartime political truce or for bringing individual ex-Liberals into the labour movement . |
| 11 | It involves our knowledge of the world as well , and if the story had gone |
| 12 | Its courtship of Mitel ended in tears last year when it sold its stake in the Canadian company at a loss of £120m ( $120m ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I sold my soul to rock'n'roll before it sold its soul to the major multi-nationals . ’ |
| 14 | Azhag flew over the battlefield on his wyvern , swooping upon regiment after regiment and harrying the retreating army as it made its way to the refuge of Wolfenburg . |
| 15 | It made its debut at the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring with Jack behind the wheel , but he was forced to retire after nine laps . |
| 16 | She thought what an undecided old fool Phoebe was , but it made her outburst at the Frolic all the more courageous . |
| 17 | The ZSL — challenged by the emergence of the PSL and the PSL-S , and faced with the expression of mass support by its membership for the PSL — had brought forward its 11th extraordinary congress to Nov. 26-27 , 1989 , when it changed its name to the PSL-Rebirth ( PSL — Odrodzenie ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Either at the request of some lady because it disturbed their bouncing on the royal bed . |
| 19 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 20 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 21 | It described her marriage as the ‘ most famous and most disgraced ’ in the world . |
| 22 | It caught me smack in the forehead and knocked me back three feet . |
| 23 | The end caught … well , it caught your son on the side of the head . |
| 24 | It drew their attention to the fact that some of their clients may have a hearing problem without expressly saying so . |
| 25 | ASLEF started life as a breakaway from the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in the 1880s and it retained its autonomy during the process of amalgamations that led to the formation of the NUR . |
| 26 | It owes its origin to the Ars conjectandi of James Bernoulli ( 1713 ) , and was extensively treated by Abraham de Moivre [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | It owes its name to the fact that it was used as the floor covering at the coronation of Frederik IV in 1699 , and that of all subsequent absolute kings . |
| 28 | It owes its position to the fame of Sillery which , equally overrated , owes its reputation to the vines of Verzeray . |
| 29 | Although the SPD agreed with the bill 's intention and much of its detail , it used its majority in the Bundesrat to reject the bill because it empowered the government to use telephone-tapping and mail-interception to gather evidence of illegal arms sales . |
| 30 | Things were just a touch grim at the Shakespeare School before it occluded its portals for the vacation . |