Example sentences of "it [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 We used to get a collar of rope , manilla rope , put it on to a truck and used to stretch it out first and then cut off the lengths .
2 The Firefly , owned by Jim Connell , of Gatley Drive , Maghull , near Liverpool , had almost sunk when rescuers managed to haul it on to a slipway and take it back to Douglas .
3 Put the carriage on to the rail , bring it near to the needles , lock it on to the rail and start to turn .
4 Shaking the spinnaker out of its bag , he curled it on to the trampoline while checking the cotton lashings that held it rolled .
5 ‘ He connected a wire to his computer , ran it under the carpet downstairs and soldered it on to the line so he could still make calls .
6 ‘ Well , we 're not polite society , lad , so tip it on to the grass and we 'll pretend we 're not locking .
7 Put , tip it on to the bridge and then you wo n't make a hole cos the bridge will be in the way .
8 Well the they 'd , then they 'd sew it on to the calico or the firm would do it for 'em .
9 But when Sam I could put it on in the bedroom and sit and watch it and Sunday , I get up on Sundays and that that cat 's ugly I get up Sundays now because Grange Hill 's on .
10 On the other hand the doctrine clearly applies to contractual terms by which the covenantee , an employer or a purchaser of a business , seeks to forbid the covenantor ( the employee or seller ) from carrying on his trade or restricts the way in which he may carry it on after the purchase and sale of labour or the business , has been completed .
11 Some types of air-breathing fish known as polypterids breathed air not by sucking it in through the mouth and forcing the lung-sac to expand , but by a reptilian-like muscular movement ( which is also how mammals breathe ) .
12 As youngsters up to London for the day , for example , we once took it in on the basis that bona fide sports followers should try everything once .
13 So sometimes the sisters would , would really sort of get it in for a nurse and she 'd and they could make your life very unpleasant indeed .
14 and they just drop it in with a clamp and it gets sh shoved in and then another bloke just connects all the wires up
15 People tie it in with the fact that Jack Nicklaus was unlucky not to win .
16 But it ties it in to a date and I think in a similar way , erm centenary which is the only thing we 're going to do offic I think that it could be the only thing we do to celebrate our hundred years of existence apart from a small exhibition in .
17 You then whip the cream ( it is easier if you have left it an hour or two in the refrigerator after cooling ) and when it stands in peaks you can turn it in to the muslin or clean napkin with which you have lined an earthenware or metal cheese mould or drainer — which can be improvised by piercing holes in a cheap cake tin or in a tub-shaped carton — and leave it 3 or 4 hours , or overnight .
18 You 're concentration goes it 's like er it 's like someone 's going to try and head it in to the net and he 's trying to work out which corner it 's going into and he 's
19 ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it .
20 You could erm you could , you could stick it in like the bedroom and wait for someone to go in and have a shag
21 Elizabeth had noticed the lighthouse on her flight back to England two years previously , and had marked it down as a place that she must see .
22 There 's no need to actually to put it down as a recommendation that stays forever more , there 's just no need for it .
23 Laboriously , she drags it down into the tunnel and there , in the dark , she lays a single egg on the inert body .
24 The lines particularly can be more convenient than transfers because you can simply follow the original artwork like following a map , unwinding from the reel and sticking it down onto the film as you go along — though it can be fiddly on dense or complicated boards .
25 Aim at getting it down onto the ground before it reaches the bank , hooding the clubface by setting the hands well forward , to reduce the effective loft of the club .
26 Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again .
27 Well when they dug the garden , after they 'd dug it they always cromed it down with a crome before they planted anything .
28 Take out the needles from the spirit and with a clean rag , working on one needle at a time , rub each one clean and lay it down on a tissue or cloth .
29 He laid it down on a rock and plunged his arm in the sack once more .
30 so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite
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