Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He contacted E. D. Morel , whose Congo Association had been a model of effective agitation ; Normal Angell , the best known public advocate of pacifism ; and Ramsay MacDonald , who had resigned the leadership of the Labour party when it agreed to vote for the war credits . |
| 2 | However , when the results of the referendum were known , it agreed to participate in the new system . |
| 3 | The EC Commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan , warned that the UK would be damaged and isolated if it failed to participate in the treaty . |
| 4 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 5 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 6 | Subsequently , it failed to build on the extensive Radio One airplay it was given . |
| 7 | We could take it turns to get in the press boxes in the West Stand ! |
| 8 | Alas , US Gold have retained this irritating quirk , and you 've only three credits to play with ( I tried putting a 50p piece into my Commodore when I ran out , but it got jammed between the keys ) . |
| 9 | It got rid of the space between my teeth , which I did n't like anyway , so some good maybe came out of it after all . ’ |
| 10 | And nationalisation : that was great because it got rid of the old bosses . |
| 11 | It got rid of the crap if I can put it that way , sorted out my priorities . |
| 12 | it got hooked on the back of that one with a large paper clip . |
| 13 | Yeah , I know , it was killed in the one where it got trapped in the . |
| 14 | The shelter that Jenny had found for me was in Camden Town , not too far away , so in order not to arrive there before it got going for the evening , I dawdled a little , window-shopping . |
| 15 | It was n't long after the ball got rolling , together with the head of the Eighties opinion formers , that it got going in the wrong direction . |
| 16 | But I think that was when I was in the sea holding on to the bit of foam , and more or less just let myself float under the water , but me arm was round the top of the bit of foam , on the surface , and I think it got burnt by the the heat off the platform then . |
| 17 | Whereas if it got torn in the hand painted days then you 're talking a long length of time . |
| 18 | The government 's announcement this spring that it planned to phase in the seventeen and a half per cent tax over twelve months brought pensioners out onto the streets . |
| 19 | How how does that co you spoke about friendliness and warmth here , How does it compare working with the other places you 've worked at ? |
| 20 | It may also be that such service would be regarded as valid on the ground that it amounted to service on the defendant in accordance with the law of the country in which service is effected . |
| 21 | It goes wandering through the files unchecked , pulling open the drawers and scattering the papers , writing wild minutes of its own . |
| 22 | Ooh I 've got one another , it goes rolling on the river right |
| 23 | In our attempts to take racism seriously we denied the importance of heterosexism by allowing it to remain excluded from the agenda . |
| 24 | Was it intended to apply in the circumstances which have arisen ? |
| 25 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 26 | erm er and it involves going to the lab and sitting around for about a couple of hours while they feed you a bit of sugar and then take some blood tests every half hour . |
| 27 | The main bar had an alcove with more marble than Lord Elgin could have handled , and , at the northern end of Blackfriars Bridge , it was over-popular with the lunch-time City crowd who thought it daring to venture across the river . |
| 28 | This is partly because , as we have seen , the Court of Appeal showed no inclination to formulate a coherent set of sentencing aims for the guidance of sentencers , and partly because the self-regulatory mechanisms on which it sought to rely in the pursuit of its more limited policy objectives were themselves seriously defective . |
| 29 | It became entwined with the separate dispute with ASLEF over flexible rostering , which the board had announced would be introduced from July with or without agreement . |
| 30 | But if , without derogation of the Divine power , we may conceive the existence of such ministers , and personify them by the term ‘ Nature ’ , we learn from the past history of our globe that she has advanced with slow and stately steps , guided by the archetypical light , amidst the wreck of worlds , from the first embodiment of the Vertebrate idea under its Ichthyic [ fish-like ] vestment , until it became arrayed in the glorious garb of the human form . |