Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 2 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 3 | Some of you might have heard about it in the press . |
| 4 | A had no proprietary interest in the farm but had transmitted earlier offers for it to the bank who were trustees of it . |
| 5 | They argued about it for the rest of the afternoon , he becoming sullen and sorry , she remaining dispassionate , untouched-She was impressed by his sudden remorse . |
| 6 | But we got through it in the end and their happy , and I 'm happy ! |
| 7 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
| 8 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 9 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
| 10 | If the seller wants a margin , he must stipulate for it in the contractual description . |
| 11 | Later it was found that its policies in relation to Polish territorial claims had been formulated for it by the Comintern as a way of weakening Poland . |
| 12 | He looks and the bear 's hanging off it at the side , grrr ! on the window and the man goes aargh ! and the man runs off and he gets on he gets on an aeroplane the aeroplane and he 's safe . |
| 13 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 14 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 15 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 16 | He said he 'd think about it over the weekend , and let Paul know on the Monday . |
| 17 | No that was that was the Friday and as it says th well I do n't know if it says there or not , but they said what would happen , they 'd think about it over the weekend and they 'd contact me the Monday afternoon erm to make a final decision . |
| 18 | I 'll think about it on the way home . ’ |
| 19 | You needed to use imagination to see through it to the ground below . |
| 20 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 21 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 22 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |
| 23 | I read about it in the paper today |
| 24 | She thinks he 's forgotten about it in the rush of leaving for America . |
| 25 | We have come through it to the extent that I am north and west Belfast Branch Secretary . |
| 26 | He constructed his own refined version of the newly-invented telescope and peered through it from the top of St Mark 's tower in Venice . |
| 27 | If there 's a traffic jam anywhere the new information unit will let you know about it on the hour as well . |
| 28 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 29 | The body 's mechanism takes over because the logical consequence of that would be to die , and we can see here that there is an arousal of something like eight to ten seconds , and during that period the patient would wake up , probably not sufficient that they would know about it in the morning , and we can see here that the breathing starts again . |
| 30 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |