Example sentences of "it [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He passed it on to the others at their dinner time meeting . |
2 | The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas . |
3 | The worse thing is when it gets in your eye when they put it on at the hairdressers after ugh |
4 | The next day , there 's an advert in the paper — that she 'd found a black and white dog and handed it in to the police at Aigburth . |
5 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
6 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
7 | Again I put it down to the stresses of presenting a live programme five days a week . |
8 | Well I 'd start with wood and er get something rough to work off and then , use me head as I say , get it down to the requirements on the , on the paper and then start to produce eventually , you know and er |
9 | So taken it down to the tills at the front , cos they move quicker |
10 | He took her hand again , guiding it down within the folds of his pau , then heard her gasp as her hand closed on him ; saw her eyes go down and look . |
11 | The figures of the main characters of the Nativity are then placed on it along with the pots of cereals , now full of green sprouts which symbolize fertility and plenty for the coming year . |
12 | Tie a cord to each bottom ring and thread it up through the rings on each tape . |
13 | She scribbled on her napkin the words , ‘ For God 's sake say something ’ , and , having folded it carefully , passed it up through the guests to the Prime Minister himself . |
14 | This means lining it up with the features on the ground . |
15 | But you have no faith in the power of the economy and want to prop it up with the crutches of the rotten police regime . |
16 | In the higher , hotter parts , the lava continually advances forward over this solid material , engulfing it and rolling it up like the tracks on a tank or caterpillar tractor . |
17 | She had no idea why he had telephoned her , though she did n't put it out of the realms of possibility that , having gone away when he 'd promised to think about the interview , he might well have rung to suggest some alternative . |
18 | More important , in 1762 recruitment was made for the first time a direct concern of the government , taking it out of the hands of the regimental officers who had hitherto controlled it . |
19 | Colonel Astor had bought The Times in 1922 specifically to keep it out of the clutches of Lloyd George , who was seeking a personal political base and had money to spend from his earlier sale of honours when Prime Minister . |
20 | Firstly it belongs to John Major himself , for taking to the hustings , and restoring , a cutting edge to the party dialogue — and thus taking the Central Office by the scruff of the neck and lifting it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk . |
21 | Ward 's side had been fighting it out on the streets with the IPLO 's Dublin-based Army Council in a row over drug money . |
22 | The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County . |
23 | The chance to battle it out with the giants of Europe in the new Champions League , the likes of AC MIlan , Barcelona and Marseille , is a dream , even for veterans like Strachan . |
24 | Carefully she drew it out through the folds of the eiderdown and held it close to the flame of the nightlight . |
25 | Britain 's top twenty girls fought or flowed it out in the championships over the weekend … the big prize for them this season is a place at the Olympics … only two girls can go … the competition is made up of four disciplines rope … hoop … ball and clubs … |
26 | The theory is that the type of population mixing which took place on oil installations spread that agent among oil workers who then took it back to the areas in which they lived . |
27 | Or he could have flown it around in the wastes of ice where Shackleton lost the Endurance . |
28 | 11.4 In the case of termination by for 's default in payment of the Advance or royalties due under clause 5.1 , shall be entitled to retain any moneys already paid to it by under the terms of this Agreement . |