Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Test for it with a screwdriver . |
| 2 | It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring . |
| 3 | Put any combination of any soft fruits you like into the rumtopf and cover each layer with rum or brandy , so that the fruit is thoroughly soaked , and then forget about it until the winter . |
| 4 | We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union . |
| 5 | While each of the principal lacunae is developing , a tracheal branch and a nerve grow into it from the base of the wing , the lacunae apparently offering the paths of least resistance . |
| 6 | And they will go by what you want from it for the o , over the next few years you know ? |
| 7 | I build to it during the lost-in-the-wood speech and then it starts a bit uncertainly and then they really get it and it hits the show like a trumpet solo . |
| 8 | How long do they think the countryside will remain clean after they descend on it like a swarm of locusts with their cars , motorbikes and stereos ? |
| 9 | And it 's erm it 's so oppressive and we really worry about it with the children . |
| 10 | Assignment is a relation in the technical sense , but as it is a unary relation , many readers may feel more at ease if we speak of it as a property ( the two ways of speaking are of course completely inter-convertible ) . |
| 11 | Ice floes circulate with it across the Pole from eastern Siberia toward Ellesmere Island , Greenland , and out into the north Atlantic Ocean , mostly along the east Greenland coast . |
| 12 | And I would rush to the window and look down and see you turning the corner to cross the square below , or walk round it to the hotel door . |
| 13 | You walk to it along the foot of the gorge , through tunnels at one point , and then climb about twelve pitches that are never harder than HVS . |
| 14 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 15 | The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it . |
| 16 | But then — if we are taking our time and stay to look at the town as a whole , walk around it in the cool and quiet of the evening when the shops are shut , and the traffic has gone home , and we can really see its contours and its bone-structure — other questions begin to arise in the mind , which even the best of guide-books does not answer . |
| 17 | ‘ I read about it at the time , but I heard none of the details . |
| 18 | I read about it in a book and it reminded me of her . |
| 19 | ‘ I read about it in the newspapers , a terrible tragedy , ’ Nevil sympathized . |
| 20 | Having found the appropriate class number from the card , look for it in the subject or classified catalogue and flick through the cards of that particular number . |
| 21 | Look for it in the carpentry section . |
| 22 | Oh , this , this is a very important book of course and one of the , one of the astonishing things is the way totally ignored and if you look through even people who write about psychoanalyses and the social sciences and there 's a lot of them , this book is hardly ever mentioned and I , I normally nowadays routinely look for it in the , in the references and index an and many books th that purport to talk about groups and sociology is never mentioned I think , and those that do do n't ever seem to understand what it says . |
| 23 | Anyway you then look through it with the solution in and you 'll find that if , for example , you started off with it completely dark you 'll find it 's then grey cos the plane of light 's been rotated , now it 's where there was no light getting through now some of it is actually getting through , cos it 's been rotated . |
| 24 | Often they are middle-aged or elderly ladies , who look upon it as a social club . |
| 25 | I become attached to that firm slab of practical mattress and look upon it as a sort of lily-white oasis cloud in a world of cold and sterile air . |
| 26 | Callières urged that young Frenchmen , if they could not meet the cost themselves , should be able to see other countries as members of the entourages of French ambassadors or envoys " according to the practice of the Spaniards and Italians who look upon it as an honour for them to accompany the ministers of their master in these sorts of voyages " . |
| 27 | I look upon it as an act of spite by Durham County Council ‘ You stopped our inner ring road scheme . |
| 28 | It is quite usual to seek translation in tables of regnal years such as those printed in the more common reference books without , perhaps , recognising the historical significance of the system or the traps which lie within it for the unwary . |
| 29 | I look on it as a work of God . |
| 30 | Obviously many look on it as a significant occasion which is very , very flattering ’ . |