Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The excavations on the south side of the High Street in 1961–2 also revealed the earliest version of Watling Street , probably dating to the time of the conquest , with associated timber-framed buildings ; the road was originally 2.7 m ( 9 ft ) wide , although it was soon widened to 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) , and a central stone-built drain effectively divided it into two carriageways . |
| 2 | And the computer successfully identified it as an Exocet . |
| 3 | The agent just gave it to me , which obviously meant he wanted him to do it and is unusual because they do n't normally give out telephone numbers . |
| 4 | If employers ignore advice and subsequently it emerges that it was a real problem , that steps should have been taken , that research elsewhere showed it to be a reasonable system to look after employees mental health , then the scale is potentially enormous . |
| 5 | What agreed by government , management and trade unions a policy which assists industry not leaves it to the market forces . |
| 6 | For present purposes it does not matter whether the court has no power to order specific treatment to be given contrary to the doctors ' will or has power but will in practice not exercise it in such circumstances . |
| 7 | The ability to make long-range plans is at a premium in early middle game , and the machine 's low level of ability in this department usually gets it into terrible trouble . |
| 8 | ’ Gharr probably put it on me when I was asleep , ’ she said defensively . |
| 9 | The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry and the British Chemical Distributors and Traders Association also apply it to their member companies . |
| 10 | In a sense , we all understand perfectly well what experiences are ; it is when we are challenged to explain this understanding that we are at a loss how to put it into words . |
| 11 | Rindt then crashed it in practice for the Canadian race and flatly refused to drive it again . |
| 12 | One inmate then aimed it at the perimeter fence of trouble-torn Lindholme jail , Doncaster , as other prisoners pelted warders with bricks . |
| 13 | His car barely made it across the finish line , spluttering and choking , before the fuel supply dried up . |
| 14 | I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that |
| 15 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |
| 16 | It was , it 's slow when you do n't have the computer just doing it on its own . |
| 17 | It took McAllister all her will-power not to wrench it from his grasp and to see and devour her work in one go . |
| 18 | The adoral shields are large , slightly convex and situated totally proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 19 | The adoral shields are nearly rectangular and situated almost entirely proximal to the oral shield not separating it from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 20 | Although I am not a Christian and certainly do not read the bible , God , for me would have been an excuse not to sort it out myself . |
| 21 | ‘ It is n't to say The Wedding Present just treat it like a job , it is just that they have natural courtesy and manners . |
| 22 | If it would be a decision not to offer it to a patient dependent on the NHS must be a decision about rationing of resources rather than about clinical need . |
| 23 | I would go further and say that we have kept it on the statute book already — there was an opportunity not to retain it during the passage of the emergency provisions Act , but we did retain it then . |
| 24 | Cos I w he was , he was in the Post Office one day and he saw this old woman and she 'd just cashed all her giros and this bloke just nicked it in the Post Office . |
| 25 | Step 2 CAPTION — To add an icon just drag it onto the right-hand set of icons . |
| 26 | Step 1 CAPTION — To delete an icon just drag it off the right-hand set of icons . |
| 27 | The latter is a recognized field of work in its own right and some people in it might be surprised to find themselves called public relations operators , but the speciality derives from public relations and the counselling , reconciliatory and persuasive nature of the work comfortably fits it within the broader spectrum of public relations practice . |
| 28 | Antibodies are proteins which , once synthesized by cells of the immune system to counter and inactivate ‘ foreign ’ molecules , enable the body to retain the ‘ memory , for the intruder and hence the capacity rapidly to inactivate it on subsequent invasion . |
| 29 | That bloke probably took it for a ride he said . |
| 30 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |