Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bartram had insisted that this differed from the candleberry , Myrica cerifera , while Miller had found other authors ranging it with the Liquidambar , ‘ so I shall be much obliged to you , if you can send me a perfect specimen , that I may determine its proper genus . ’ |
| 2 | Having always been aware of the Cathedral I 've often wondered what impact it has on visitors seeing it for the first time . |
| 3 | Against the left-hand wall stood an old-fashioned gas stove so heavy that Meg was unable to move it to clean behind it and preferred not to think of the accumulated grease of decades gumming it to the wall . |
| 4 | It had a large nave with massive columns separating it from the aisles ( 92 and 93 ) . |
| 5 | David had heard of the Wilikinses ' divorce there had been quite a lot about the circumstances surrounding it in the Birmingham Mail — and he had been told of a second , short-lived marriage . |
| 6 | With all the oscillation that was involved in that er shop stewards taking cases up , the shop stewards discussing it with the management , the management 's involvement , the management 's attitude becoming gradually , not weakened but er inured to the stewards ' fundamental logical claims on behalf of their members , made it easier you know , and progress was , was being noted that , and earnings were rising , earnings were rising . |
| 7 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 8 | It was also a prison , and at the back of the palace is the beautiful Bridge of Sighs connecting it with the dark , damp cells . |
| 9 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |
| 10 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 11 | A few seconds later he was followed by Rocky 's rig , the chains linking it to the ruined gates having been released from its rear axle by Springfield . |
| 12 | The track ran along the lip of the natural amphitheatre , no trees guarding it from the eighty-foot drop to the small lake , so Trent could look out from his ambush across the track to the meadow below . |
| 13 | In a final jab at the purported blindness of the contemporary art groupie , Peter Hopkins has embedded a wad of garbage behind one wall , its presence indicated only by the screws securing it to the plaster . |
| 14 | The problem of living in the big stone-built Manor House on the edge of the village , with the trees shielding it from the road , and the drive . |
| 15 | Hong Kong has transformed the regions surrounding it in the past five or six years . |
| 16 | I 've left it with two screws holding it at the moment . |
| 17 | The Bodyline War was also being featured overseas , the Americans equating it with the ‘ bean ball ’ in baseball — a ball aimed at the opponent 's head . |
| 18 | It 's still rare to find women artists making it to the top . |
| 19 | The savings on operating costs alone were immense , some experts putting it in the order of £2 million a year . |
| 20 | Islamabad has said reports linking it to the explosions and ‘ wild and unfounded ’ . |
| 21 | Hundreds of soldiers doing it after the last war — and airmen . |
| 22 | A new sensitivity to the subject is suggested by the series of laws and practices concerning it in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | What followed can only be described as a wild west show , with representatives chasing it around the Norfolk showground , much tot he amusement of everyone in the vicinity . |