Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 2 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 3 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
| 4 | It was a thoroughly tested number as Tiller had not only shown it at the Palace but his La Scala Girls had also performed it at the Winter Gardens Pavilion , Blackpool , the previous year . |
| 5 | At journey 's end she folded over the top of the bag and thoughtfully replaced it behind the netting on the back of the seat in front . |
| 6 | The mess steward came in with Woolley 's piano-accordion and gently laid it on the table . |
| 7 | ( and rightly linked it to the |
| 8 | Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’ |
| 9 | But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ? |
| 10 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 11 | Somebody had obviously left it in the cubicle . |
| 12 | Eliot had apparently declined it on the plea that it was Lent . |
| 13 | The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ . |
| 14 | The bonus is combined with your normal pension payment for the first week in December , so if you have not received it by the end of that month ask at your local Social Security office . |
| 15 | I have just heard it on the news . ’ |
| 16 | Although she had not realised it at the time , looking back she could see that her life at Mrs White 's had been quite lonely . |
| 17 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 18 | This E S R D really is the bible and we have specified the aircraft to meet that E S R D and not anything extra , er obviously if one of the four nations wants to build a nuclear role into the aircraft that becomes a very big political question first and foremost and we have just not considered it at the technical level at all because it 's er it 's not in the requirement . |
| 19 | We have already considered it in the context of stress and frustration ( ie. conflict between the individual and his environment ) and role theory ( ie. inter-personal conflict within the individual ) . |
| 20 | The attack happened 2 weeks ago , but the victim was so distressed she has only just reported it to the police . |
| 21 | Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn . |
| 22 | I have just done it for the only time in the 23,400,000 minutes of my life so far , and I doubt if I 'll do it again , so call these odds one in 25 million . |
| 23 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
| 24 | Cos I 've not seen it with the curtains |
| 25 | What a sharp , sneering face he had had , though she could not see it , as she had not seen it in the darkness of her dream . |
| 26 | Some people have already done it by the looks of things , only they have n't changed it . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've only just made it before the final melt . ’ |
| 28 | They have already said it to the Wilson Committee : we are doing our best to preserve the value of the funds entrusted to us , and any attempt to force us to invest in projects offering sub-optimal returns for ‘ social ’ reasons is an attempt to make us break faith with our customers . |
| 29 | ‘ I have already got it from the beat constable that she was n't there at four o'clock . ’ |
| 30 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |