Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are Oxford for the drop , can Swindon make it to the premier league play-offs ? |
| 2 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 3 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 4 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 5 | This particular guitar is a bit of a video star ; Dave Stewart used it in the promo for The Eurythmics ' The City Never Sleeps . |
| 6 | When the hamlets were first included in the development area for the new city of Milton keynes in the 1960s , people of Calverton fought it in the High Court and won . |
| 7 | He and Donna used it during the summer , making frequent weekend trips ; Ward himself had written at least two books there . |
| 8 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 9 | Almost a hundred years later , the great American dramatist Thornton Wilder turned it into The Merchant of Yonkers and later revised it , changing the name to The Matchmaker . |
| 10 | In 1848 Prince Windischgrätz turned it into the headquarters of his General Staff ; it then became a special school for the Communist Party and is now being restored as the Academy of Music . |
| 11 | Woolley touched it with the muzzle of his gun . |
| 12 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
| 13 | The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State . |
| 14 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 15 | Bowhill , much as Sir Walter Scott saw it in the ‘ Lay of the Last Minstrel ’ is there for all to enjoy . |
| 16 | I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts . |
| 17 | I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and |
| 18 | He wrote a cheque and Josh okayed it with the bank — phoned Hnatiuk , the manager , at home . ’ |
| 19 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 20 | Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water . |
| 21 | Millie remembered it from the previous evening . |
| 22 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 23 | As all areas were initially classified as class I and II , the EPA left it to the states to redesignate some class II areas as class III , or even to upgrade such areas to class I ( Stern , 1977 ) . |
| 24 | Caron wrote it in the aftermath of the '92 riots in LA where she was living at the time . |
| 25 | The horticultural coup of the show is this unassuming little plant which is still in bud.A Victorian favourite called the double cream blackberry plant , it was thought to have disappeared.But nurseryman Bob Brown from Evesham spotted it in the United States . |
| 26 | More than anyone before him , Herschel extended the domain of astronomy beyond the confines of the Solar System to the whole Galaxy ; Hubble extended it beyond the Galaxy to the ‘ realm of the nebulae ’ — presumably to the whole physical Universe . |
| 27 | The Fourth Gospel , that of John , places the cleansing of the Temple near the beginning , whereas the Synoptics have it near the climax of Jesus ' confrontation with the authorities . |
| 28 | Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) . |
| 29 | It was reproduced in the Boston underground paper , and the following year , when Jean Luc Godard came to England to film British Sounds , Rowbotham read it over the soundtrack . |
| 30 | Arriving home at half past twelve at night , Rachaela found it in the downstairs hall , another tenant had obviously taken it in . |