Example sentences of "[det] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a memory he had n't known he had , and even now he knew very little about it beyond the fact that it involved him and his father and a railway tunnel . |
| 2 | Trent said , ‘ Wind picks up , we 'll need to tow half of it in the Zodiac . ’ |
| 3 | Followed by one grated fresh apple topped with a quarter of a pint of vanilla-flavoured custard ( make half a pint of custard , adding a little extra sugar and a few drops of vanilla essence , and save half of it in the refrigerator for Friday ) . |
| 4 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 5 | He insists that no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 6 | He insists no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 7 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 8 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 9 | Interestingly , as we went to press , Intel stock had spiked 15 points in three days , some of it on the strength of a strong buy recommendation from Merrill Lynch , whose analysis underscored the strong demand for Pentiums . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , I just heard some of it on the radio . |
| 11 | Well I do n't , I 'm bread and I might some of it on the top . |
| 12 | And some of the newcomers have money to throw around , so I 'm not going to prevent them throwing some of it towards the hunt . |
| 13 | There was still some of the food in the bag , and I dropped some of it onto the ground . |
| 14 | Their sunshine tour , some of it aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia , will take in eight countries — Anguilla , Dominica , Guyana , Belize , the Cayman Islands , Jamaica , the Bahamas and Bermuda . |
| 15 | There is a good deal of informal communication about courses in particular subjects , some of it passing along the external examiner grapevine , some of it through the ‘ invisible colleges ’ of research networks . |
| 16 | China 's growth is fuelled largely by coal and so is India 's , some of it in the latter case thanks to World Bank funding . |
| 17 | A staggering £300,000 had been raised from local people and businesses , some of it in the form of covenants . |
| 18 | The particular themes of PNP needs , curriculum , teaching strategies , home and school — remain areas of central concern , and about each of them there is now a substantial body of conceptual and empirical material to be tapped , some of it in the twelve PRINDEP reports . |
| 19 | and I put some of it in the freezer |
| 20 | Ivy was growing up its trunk and the recent gales had wrenched some of it from the bark . |
| 21 | Not another like it in the world ! ’ |
| 22 | Here , if one animal is attacked by another above it in the status-hierarchy , the attacked animal , rather than fighting back , instead directs its aggression against some inferior — a means of dealing with the situation which is open to all except the most subordinate member of the group . |
| 23 | In the media I mean I have n't seen much about it in the media . |
| 24 | But they have n't said too much about it in the paper . |
| 25 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 26 | Evidence has emerged that mahogany which has been logged illegally in Brazilian Indian reserves is being exported to Western countries , much of it to the UK , which accounts for 52 per cent of Brazilian mahogany . |
| 27 | Snowing patiently , for there was much of it on the ground , many snowdrops to be restored like white souls to the heavens . |
| 28 | There has been a great deal of change in European Securities Exchanges , much of it on the lines of London 's Big Bang ( abolition of fixed commissions in Paris , for example ) , and much of it with a view to maintaining or gaining business . |
| 29 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 30 | The basis of the Tyne as a port was the export of coal , much of it through the Northumberland Dock in North Shields which exported the coal from Cramlington and other South Northumberland collieries . |