Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , you know they can pick it and er , it just flashes up and they have to put the right answer in , if they get the right answer it it goes on to the next one , if it |
| 2 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 3 | It goes back to the second world war , really . |
| 4 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 5 | For you the tape measure did n't shrink — it just followed the wonkyness of the two-dimensional surface as it hollowed out into the third dimension . |
| 6 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 7 | On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry . |
| 8 | When it happens again on the next cast I turn the air blue with some choice words . |
| 9 | Pearce encapsulates it as each generation ensuring that it passes on to the next an undiminished stock of assets , including environmental as well as man-made capital . |
| 10 | Virtually what it did it came out of the last parish council 's conference which I attended on your behalf and er the Director of Planning and Development , Colin promised to lay on a seminar for parish councillors because it seems to be the one service which always gets criticism at the parish council 's conference . |
| 11 | One goal was good enough … it came midway through the second half … skipper Andy Melville ran it in and ran off to celebrate … |
| 12 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 13 | When the penis is flaccid it hangs there like the last chicken in Sainsbury 's . |
| 14 | It turned right at the next street . |
| 15 | It deals only with the first stage . |
| 16 | In the 12 hours that followed after it clambered effortlessly over the last five earth dykes , raised by terrified residents in as many days , the lava officially caused £1 million damage . |
| 17 | It ties in with the fifth principle that ‘ personal data shall be accurate and , where necessary , kept up-to-date ’ — a formidable requirement , if taken literally , in view of the frequency with which personal details ( address , etc. ) can change , and also bearing in mind the possible diversity of sources of information ; and who but the data subject can be the true judge of accuracy — unless of course he may have an interest in falsifying the record ? |
| 18 | But for now Kylie harnessed it to press on with the next stage of her ten year plan which had been drawn up by her musical gurus . |
| 19 | The house is built on an ‘ L ’ shape , and though it evolved gradually over the fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the whole gives a uniquely harmonious appearance , which must stem from the use all those years ago of essentially local materials which can not but blend . |
| 20 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 21 | It also expects it to build gradually over the next two quarters and then start doing something serious in the fall . |
| 22 | Even if output continues to decline at a similar pace in this quarter before it picks up in the next ( as most forecasters expect ) , the total peak-to-trough decline will look much shallower than the 2.7% average drop in GNP during the eight recessions since the second world war . |
| 23 | When I published this group , with an enormous amount of help from Philip Corder ( Webster , 1947 ) , I was confident that it fell well into the fourth century . |
| 24 | It grew out of the first demonstrations , towards the end of October 1989 , and was composed of women and men who were outraged at the filth and the toxins in the air , water and soil . |
| 25 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 26 | It was an important step towards the ideal of interchangeable parts , and it went well with the nineteenth century transforming of craft activity into modern industry , remotely controlled by paper in the form of plans and drawings , prepared by people in a distant office and perhaps in a distant town . |
| 27 | It took only until the next Wednesday when he beat me . |
| 28 | USL also says UC Berkeley rebuffed every proposal it put forward over the last few months to resolve the dispute without recourse to litigation . |
| 29 | Nor would it come as a total shock to discover that the world pulls out of the next slump the same way it did out of the last one , with a catastrophic world war . ’ |
| 30 | If the system disagrees with the figure entered it will challenge it — otherwise it moves on to the next item . |