Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I 'm actually going to go in for it in the Telegraph 's competition , so I may as well use the same team for our one if it gets going .
2 A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour .
3 ‘ A Scotch , please — plenty of soda , ’ said Greg , and settled down with it into the sofa .
4 linked in with it at the moment .
5 Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others .
6 Crowds of spectators were thronging the sides of the narrow road which led down from it into the village and , after Vitor had hurriedly found a parking place , they joined them .
7 There seems little doubt that Trow Gill once brought down a stream , this entering as a waterfall at the gap now occupied by boulders , and this theory is confirmed by the dry channel coming directly down to it from the heights above .
8 As with Frankie , so much of the pleasure is bound up with the sense of something breaking out all over the surfaces of everyday life , and you being in on it from the start .
9 There 's a little row that goes down beside it round the back , I never knew there was .
10 The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try .
11 A GARAGE owner lost £4,000 takings after he drove off with it on the bonnet of his jeep .
12 Dolly let him get on with it in the usual way .
13 That 's it and let them , let them get on with it in the middle of bloody summer with a pint of water and say , look , that pint of water has to last you the day .
14 Edith Wiens has a tight vibrato , not at all like the vibrato of French sopranos and which rather spoils her second soprano solo , but the others make up for it with the highly unusual duo for first soprano and bass , accompanied by harp and organ ( an arresting combination ) , or with the utterly ravishing trio for first soprano , tenor and bass , with its elaborate harp accompaniment .
15 When the car goes wrong , who ends up underneath it in the snow ?
16 He 'd run to follow it , missed it at the traffic lights , almost caught up with it at the next .
17 He was quite prepared to hail this as a ‘ great film ’ , for if critics were prepared to lavish that term ‘ on any half-chewed jumble of stills that comes in from abroad , then I am in favour of loosening up with it on the home front ’ .
18 like a soft telescope , that it looked up along it at the sky
19 A well was sunk in the back garden , and water could be pumped up from it into the kitchen .
20 The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches .
21 As such , it has effected significant changes in some of the Bills sent up to it by the Commons .
22 Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain .
23 You could get up to it by the stairs to the roof .
24 Past Glories suggested he is on the way back when third to Kribensis in the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle , while Floyd is not quite up to it in the highest class these days .
25 Yet nearly everyone shapes up to it in the end .
26 Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again .
27 It occupies a small rocky island in the Kyrönsalmi Strait , which is swept by rapid currents ; the town of Savonlinna grew up around it between the two lakes .
28 We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether .
29 We only found out about it in the British press when we arrived in Wales .
30 Eventually she had found out about it in the worst possible way .
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