Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [prep] [art] " 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 | She got through it without a mistake . |
| 7 | But we got through it in the end and their happy , and I 'm happy ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | If the seller wants a margin , he must stipulate for it in the contractual description . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 15 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 16 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 17 | Well , perhaps I asked for it in a way , ’ Felicity admitted reluctantly . |
| 18 | Anselm fought for it with a tenacity which is only explicable if the whole scene which we have briefly surveyed is borne in mind : the primacy was the brightest of the dreams which the monks of Canterbury had inherited from their largely silent , ever-beckoning past , and on this question Anselm fell under the spell of the awe-inspiring tradition which he had helped to preserve . |
| 19 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 20 | So if you let me take a copy , I 'll give that lease you signed to my company solicitor and get him to go through it with a magnifying glass . |
| 21 | He said he 'd think about it over the weekend , and let Paul know on the Monday . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Can you think about it for a minute . |
| 24 | So er she says well you can think about it for a fortnight er you see her daddy put out discos altogether because of the lies but she cos she gets nervous because when she 's telling a lie to you she 'll go red |
| 25 | I 'll think about it on the way home . ’ |
| 26 | You needed to use imagination to see through it to the ground below . |
| 27 | She crept through it like a cat , keeping to the shadows , avoiding anybody who might ask what her business was in this place . |
| 28 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 29 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 30 | ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror . |