Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it plunged into the water and , a swift streak , returned to its perch with a silver fish in its dagger-bill . |
| 2 | Suddenly it rushed at the tree , leapt onto a low branch , and ran up the trunk . |
| 3 | It hovered for a few moments , then suddenly it dropped to the floor with a tinkle and broke in two . |
| 4 | Hardly a candidate for success you might think but you would be wrong to the tune of £120m because that 's how much it took at the US box-office . |
| 5 | He knows that Grampian regional council is bound by statute to say how much it got from the sale ; it can not simply say that it will not tell anyone . |
| 6 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 7 | What is more arguable is how new it was , and how very much it departed from the old . |
| 8 | And I think you can see why I call it pessimistic because , basically it says in the Anglican prayer book , there is no good in us , what 's in us is , is bad , in the sense of anti-social egoistic , and if people are going to cooperate and if there 's gon na be social order , then as it were , it has to be imposed on them . |
| 9 | Basically it provided for the care and treatment of the mentally disordered through the NHS under the central direction of the Minister of Health . |
| 10 | As the T1 determines how long it take for the magnetic resonance signal to recover after each image , a long T1 — that is , 1–3 seconds as in water , determines the maximum image frequency achievable in continuous , long duration experiments . |
| 11 | But just how long it takes for the heat to flow out will depend on how well your home is insulated and draught proofed . |
| 12 | The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 . |
| 13 | But just how long it takes for the heat to flow out will depend on how well insulated and draughtproofed your home is . |
| 14 | Semantically , the less of a notional component the verb has , the more naturally it goes with the theme as a foundation-laying element . |
| 15 | Perhaps it does in the following modest sense . |
| 16 | Perhaps it appealed to the rest of them because it 's very fast . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps it consists in the ability to respond intelligently to the language of others . |
| 18 | Perhaps it started about the mid-fifth century . |
| 19 | Perhaps it acts at the lysosomal stage of the entry process outlined by Simons . |
| 20 | That 's fine , I 'd had , on the subject of this boycotting timber , erm I know of two instances at least where Oxford City Council are still using tropical hardwoods , and I wonder , I mean , you know , obviously it goes against the grain of the signing of the tropical hardwood . |
| 21 | If you 've read the policy obviously it details in the policy exactly what is covered and , as I say , depending on the premium paid depends on the type of cover that they have . |
| 22 | Only it holds onto the hairs so much that it rips them out so that you end up with legs with no hairs on it but ah ! |
| 23 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 24 | So it went to the National Gallery . |
| 25 | So it gets to the end of the line and it will come back and adjust itself and go under the the |
| 26 | ( Or so it said in the T&A last night ) . |
| 27 | More or less , yes , except that , because the human ear responds to different frequencies , or pictures of sound , with different sensitivities , the sound meter has to be adapted so it responds in the same way . |
| 28 | So it applied to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations for some aid . |
| 29 | And so it continued over the next two years ; more and more presents , each one more costly than the last . |
| 30 | So we 've got corruption in us probably so it depends upon the degree |