Example sentences of "it [is] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ball on leaving Hoddle 's boot does n't touch the ground , until of course it 's bouncing in the back of the net . |
| 2 | It 's only got a population of about fifteen thousand and it 's situated in the heart of asparagus country . |
| 3 | This too was slow to arrive , but it has bags of extra features and because it 's bundled with the DOS version for a mere £299 , it has to be a bargain . |
| 4 | It 's strewn with the evidence of his addiction . |
| 5 | So it 's according to the number of people that use it , go to mass , how much you pay |
| 6 | It 's just a pile of sticks to the passer-by so it 's hidden from the world outside |
| 7 | ‘ It 's named for the man who built it . |
| 8 | Of course it 's getting to the stage when one version of the album alone wo n't be enough to satisfy everyone . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's getting to the stage where it 's not a habitable area . ’ |
| 10 | But I mean , it 's getting to the stage now where it 's gon na become counter-productive , well , for me cos it 's got to such a point now where I 've got exchanges going through , I 've got erm sales going through , details to be typed , canvassing going out , instructions , appointments to make , the outcomes |
| 11 | Mind you it 's getting to the end of the run as well is n't it now ? |
| 12 | It 's getting near the end of the financial year . |
| 13 | ‘ There might be some spare cash floating around since it 's getting near the end of the year . ’ |
| 14 | No I do n't think it 's that , I think it 's cos it 's getting near the end of the tape . |
| 15 | Erm but yeah but that 's one of er oh pass me pass me the thing I do n't actually when I think about it it 's getting nearer the time . |
| 16 | du n no , it 's living in the bin |
| 17 | It reads the Touch key when it 's placed on the sensor and uses it as an encryption key to decode data as it 's read and to encode it as it 's written . |
| 18 | Banbury 's Horton General Hospital has announced it 's considering following the lead of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and considering opting out of the N H S. |
| 19 | He come back to me he says , it 's spilling over the top because the chutes are blocked up he says I 'll tell the track driver , the track driver says , Oh well get the to clean that up . |
| 20 | The badge is secret — and no-one should know that it 's hiding on the front until she gets the T-shirt or jumper on . |
| 21 | It 's jammed in the link . |
| 22 | Besides , if it 's understood from the outset that you have entirely different tastes , perhaps you 're less likely to disagree . |
| 23 | It 's leaning against the wall . ’ |
| 24 | If it 's raining in the afternoon there will be a table tennis tournament . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's leaking from the abdomen — I think he needs a bit of surgical attention . ’ |
| 26 | Erm all that sort of leads me back to where I started from , our perception of this survey is that it 's encouraging in the sense that it suggests that the recovery in the economy is erm widening and deepening if you like , it 's widening in the sense that it 's spreading to all the mainland regions of the U K and it 's deepening in the sense that erm firstly , although there are regional variations within this , it 's clearly not purely an export story and it 's not purely a domestic story , it 's a mixture of the two which gives us some reassurance erm it 's also deepening in the sense that there 's no evidence from the survey of anything which is likely to trip up the recovery in the short term , and remember that most of these er questions relate to the next four months , not all of them , but mo most of them relate to the next four months so one does n't want to extrapolate too far forward but nevertheless if you look at erm er most obviously sort of the the crisis and the inflation questions , if you look at er |
| 27 | It 's served at the end of the raft trip , ’ he explained to Lucy . |
| 28 | This year it 's scheduled for the Moscone Center in San Francisco May 25–27 and NeXT claims it 's going to draw 10,000 people . |
| 29 | The partnership depends heavily upon the generosity of the charity , but it 's seen as the way forward in care for the elderly . |
| 30 | ‘ I think the sheer professionalism of the job as it 's done at the moment is hard to beat . |