Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it fallen off the roof ? |
| 2 | What has it to do with the ‘ urban ’ ? |
| 3 | It 's quite likely she calls a taxicab every time and has it waiting round the corner out of sight . |
| 4 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 5 | Nor has it dealt with the question of a new citizenship law , though the Solingen atrocity has revived debate about this . |
| 6 | Has it occurred to the Minister that the problem is that there are plenty of young people camped out in the open air , but that they do not have any work ? |
| 7 | Has it occurred to the Secretary of State to discuss that with the CBI and perhaps also to nudge his colleague , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , to try to change that trend ? |
| 8 | How much has it changed in the costume and the ploughs , nowadays compared to when you were young ? |
| 9 | Here 's Thomson Speedy wants it played into the area and get it . |
| 10 | A hydraulic ram on the drawbar allows it to move from the offset working position to directly behind the tractor for road transport . |
| 11 | The latter is imagined to be a snake-like movement that translates the chain through the tube and allows it to escape at the tube ends . |
| 12 | An odd , and possibly unique feature of the statue is that the horse 's tail hangs from a ball-and-socket joint which allows it to sway in the wind . |
| 13 | You know when grandma says it gets in the pores ? |
| 14 | He says it goes into the water supply and into human bodies . |
| 15 | ‘ He says it comes under the Fireworks and public Entertainments byelaw ; an' there was n't a soul for miles around . ’ |
| 16 | Barclays says it looks after the financial affairs of some 150 ‘ high technology ’ companies in Cambridge : three years ago the figure was 15 . |
| 17 | When Jesus is arrested in Gethsemane , at least one of his followers is actually carrying a sword and uses it to lop off the ear of an attendant of the High Priest ; in the Fourth Gospel , the man with the sword is specifically identified as Simon Peter . |
| 18 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 19 | The way she wears it shows to the righteous and inquisitive observers always present in Asian communities just how modest she is . |
| 20 | Liza sings it to reverberate round the Albert Hall and the final syllable has more tone and depth than Kylie manages in a whole album . |
| 21 | The rather pompous periphrasis " the candidate for the honour of taking his education in hand " doubtless represents the boy 's self-centred view of Pemberton , but in language quite above the boy 's apparently limited powers of expression : what it seems to express is Pemberton 's image of himself as he sees it reflected through the mind of the child . |
| 22 | ‘ Well that 's the way things are goin' over here , and that 's the way he sees it goin' in the future , under the Government constraints he outlined at that meetin' . ’ |
| 23 | Finally , if a group disbands and then reassembles it returns to the forming/storming phases . |
| 24 | Someone hears it mentioned in the Bazaar and runs to U hu with a warning . |
| 25 | Donald has two seasons left of a £25,000-per-year contract to run at Warwickshire but now finds it clashes with the international programme . |
| 26 | The torpedo can sit unattended on the sea bed for two years until an underwater sound-signal tells it to rise to the surface . |
| 27 | Southall , delighted with the look made famous by the great Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin , has even added to the macho image by pulling out all the padding which comes with today 's goalkeepers ' shirts because he thinks it gets in the way of doing the job properly . |
| 28 | He thinks it came in the pure stuff , transparent crystals . ’ |
| 29 | Its site , a business park one stop shy of Slough , puts it smack in the M4 corridor , with its honour guard of high-tech companies . |
| 30 | The new racism has a third important feature which enables it to slip through the rationalist approach of those who , with the best will in the world , reduce the problem of racism to the sum of power and prejudice . |