Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 2 | At 0630hrs a PBY spotted a Japanese midget submarine as it approached the harbour defences and shot and depth charged it to sink in the harbour . |
| 3 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 4 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 5 | We found it buried in the grass and it obviously been put there deliberately to maim . |
| 6 | The doll had pins piercing the location of the heart when the police found it lying on the victim 's naked body . |
| 7 | I hereby certify that I have examined and tested the following measure and found it to comply with the provisions of Schedule 4 Part II , Paragraph 4 of the above-mentioned Regulations , viz : — |
| 8 | I hereby certify that I have examined and tested the following measure and found it to comply with the provisions of Schedule 4 Part II Paragraph 4 of the above-mentioned Regulations viz : |
| 9 | it was supposed to be a normal meeting but he changed it to talk about the cuts you know the |
| 10 | On Oct. 20 the ANC and PAC excluded AZAPO from the convening committee of the conference , but invited it to participate in the meeting . |
| 11 | Baldwin disliked the level of unemployment both for its own sake and because he believed it worked against the evolution of a moderate Labour Party . |
| 12 | As unemployment receded it left behind the problem of the Distressed Areas whose situation often worsened as the general employment position improved . |
| 13 | I told it to come to the Vecchio Reccione in Leicester Square at 9.30 , then I rang the restaurant and made a booking , using my PKB Amex card to confirm it . |
| 14 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 15 | She recollected it falling on the face and sightless seeing eyes of Michael , the first of the Scarabae household she had ever beheld . |
| 16 | Yes , and the second time that happened it swept across the standing walls there , and in the near end of the caldarium there was somebody standing by the wall . |
| 17 | There was not a sound except the stamping hoofs and as she watched he allowed it to come to the ground , pacing it in that superb prancing way , its silken tail swaying . |
| 18 | Selecting the right sized Disc , we took a pan of milk and we allowed it to heat to the point where it was about to boil over . |
| 19 | A few minutes later it emerged and flew off and then when it returned it looked at the wall and saw the marks and went inside . |
| 20 | In a moment she heard the engine of the Mercedes , and she heard it zoom down the hill with a squeal of tyres . |
| 21 | She chucked in another handful and heard it rattling against the walls . |
| 22 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 23 | She heard it crash to the bottom of the stairs , and felt the floor quiver as it gained on her . |
| 24 | The wind was getting up , too — they heard it bluster round the house , flinging rain on the windows . |
| 25 | More glass covered the road ; she heard it crunching beneath the tyres . |
| 26 | Athelstan jumped as a fierce tom cat slunk out of the shadows , grasped the rat by its leg and pulled it squealing into the centre of the room . |
| 27 | Where others were most sharply conscious of the crisis posed for theology by the development of modern culture and the change in our self-awareness , he saw the real crisis as lying in the inability of theology to do justice to its object , and called it to look in the opposite direction from that it had been taking . |
| 28 | When he refused , Mr Reynolds climbed off the engine and watched it fall through the bridge on to the car , steam and smoke erupting from the cab as it did so . |
| 29 | I watched it rise on the air currents , becoming a marker for the height I was at ; the space I looked across . |
| 30 | A moment later the men who watched it explode from the verandah felt their ragged clothes begin to flap and flutter in the blast . |