Example sentences of "[det] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi . |
| 2 | Despite this , an intrepid few made it from the continent , including examples from France , Holland , although the star of the event was from much further afield — half-way around the world . |
| 3 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , well , some make it to the big time , others do n't , ’ Melissa remarked smugly . |
| 5 | Few make it to the top . |
| 6 | Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances . |
| 7 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 8 | The Midland kept its own account at the Bank and used the Bank 's notes instead of its own ; this protected it against the effects of Sir Robert Peel 's clampdown on note issuing in 1844 . |
| 9 | At first sight it is a pretty enough spectacle to see a matchbox made ; one motion of the hands bends into shape the notched frame of the case , another surrounds it with the ready-pasted strip of painted wrapper , which , by long practice is fitted instinctively without a wrinkle , then the sandpaper or phosphorous paper , pasted ready beforehand , is applied and pressed on so that it sticks fast . |
| 10 | Most writer were left a little bemused by the change and few viewed it with the clarity of Lorraine Edwards in the Nottingham Evening Post . |
| 11 | Some saw it as the beginning of the end of Nazism , which had again almost ‘ run itself to death with victories ’ . |
| 12 | Although most women watch their diet during pregnancy , few alter it in the months beforehand . |
| 13 | Some see it as the perfect exercise for keeping fit ; others train purely for self-defence purposes . |
| 14 | Dampt disgrace that couple that done it in the Golden Divans . |
| 15 | was one of the pioneers of embalming and did much to promote it within the Co-operative Funeral Service and was held in high esteem by colleagues for his long standing service to the Institute . |
| 16 | For the non-obese patient over 65 years who needs a sulphonylurea , a short-acting drug like tolbutamide has much to commend it as the elderly are more prone to hypoglycaemia . |
| 17 | Digital telecommunication has much to recommend it over the analogue alternative , and the move away from analogue systems is n't restricted to the mobile networks . |
| 18 | Its positioning accuracy alone ( + or -1mm ) has much to recommend it over the human alternative . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the principle of chisel ploughing has much to recommend it in the right conditions . |
| 20 | He who valued life so much to enter it in the form of a human person must be committed to its survival . |
| 21 | is that that the consultation is a problem the legislation which takes away the requirement for several developments to promote valuable time and be advertised prior to the application so the first most people knew about this application was after this this opportunity prior to that to discuss it with the development before it was submitted . |
| 22 | The Romans , imitating the Greeks of Asia Minor and , nearer home , the Etruscans , thought a grid should have precise right angles , and so the rectangle of streets sits awkwardly in the bend of the river and one has to tack this way and that to cross it to the medieval cathedral and the Roman bridge . |
| 23 | Half of these make it to the training yards , and not all of them , by a long way , will ever make it to a race track . |
| 24 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 25 | Right they all make the salt , they all make it in the same way Hydrochloric acid would make ? |
| 26 | In 1987 at one of the regular meetings of superintendents , I listened as the deputy chief constable talked his way through a potential problem for the increasing numbers of graduates in the service , who ‘ obviously can not all make it to the top ’ . |
| 27 | Neil , Andy and Alyson all made it to the semi-final , but only Alyson made it through to the final , where she came fourth and received a medal for her achievement . |
| 28 | We , we all put it in the box , we do n't pay other . |
| 29 | You do n't grasp it when you 're young , and if you 're born , obviously as a lot of the population now are , much younger , and have n't really been either touched or involved in a war , it 's very difficult , it 's something which we 've all seen on television , we 've all seen it at the films and you tend if you 're not careful , to pick up the glamorous side of it , you do n't realise I do n't think and in fact I keep saying this — I do n't think you can ever realise what it must be like to be in a battle until you 've actually been there . |
| 30 | In other words while the public may have all watched the same news they did n't all see it in the same way . |