Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In a moment she heard the engine of the Mercedes , and she heard it zoom down the hill with a squeal of tyres . |
| 4 | She heard it crash to the bottom of the stairs , and felt the floor quiver as it gained on her . |
| 5 | The wind was getting up , too — they heard it bluster round the house , flinging rain on the windows . |
| 6 | I watched it disappear down the road . |
| 7 | The longer she gazed down , through the tendril of tobacco smoke , the more the meeting merged into the older , stronger established patterns and colours of the valley floor until , eyes half-closed , she saw it disappear into the ancient landscape … |
| 8 | The next century saw it pass through the hands of the Arundell , Ockold and Ridler families . |
| 9 | She saw it move in the forest like a gleam of something white . |
| 10 | They cut its supports , then saw it crash through the floor they were on … and two more … and hit the ground with such a clatter that security men half a mile away alerted police . |
| 11 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 12 | Can you remember what made it sink to the bottom ? |
| 13 | He made it cling to the garments of his characters to provide them with something of their personalities . |
| 14 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 15 | As I said last week , he c he er made it appear to the British that he s sought to control the channel ports and with a large navy was then capable of interfering with our trade and in in indeed mounting an invasion , and that brought Britain into a war which could not be ended until the Germans sued for surrender and vice versa . |
| 16 | They took comfort from its changing face , which made it seem like the heart-throb of the area . |
| 17 | Time and again , he made it run through the sequence with him . |
| 18 | How did it go over the side ? |
| 19 | ‘ How did it go with the Commander ? ’ |
| 20 | Did it arise through the actions of private bankers or a central issuing body established by the government ( or a former colonial power ) ? |
| 21 | ‘ And how long did it stay behind the wall ? ’ |
| 22 | What of the Conservative Party , how did it react to the challenge of fascism ? |
| 23 | When Gary Mackay scored that legendary goal for Scotland against Bulgaria , how big of an inroad did it make into the Republic 's capital of Jammy Breaks ? |
| 24 | There could be no other reason , and yet that did not accord with the placidity of his face and his voice , nor did it match with the image Harry was beginning to form of him . |
| 25 | Did it compare to the , the film ? |
| 26 | Correct me if I 'm wrong , but I can not remember major riots and civil disorder against the old rates system , nor did it contribute to the downfall of a Prime Minister . |
| 27 | How did it develop in the sixties ? |
| 28 | In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years . |
| 29 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 30 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |