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Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	" The very thought of it chills me to the bone . "
2	In the event , it got nothing of the kind .
3	But it got him in the end .
4	WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently .
5	WordPerfect on it to compare it with the other one and it was I er said
6	At rest the cricket looks like a dead leaf , but it transforms itself at the last moment .
7	Every time you think you 've sussed this game it kicks you in the arse . ’
8	The Virgin bent her head to the dove in pictures of the Annunciation , and it pierced her through the ear , bringing her the Word that was life itself , down into her womb ; that was what Rosa wanted , Tommaso 's mouth next to her ear , until she , like the woman with her lover in the doorway , would wriggle and gasp .
9	It points me to the verse numbered twenty-one , and the line is : ‘ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ ’
10	it points us towards the reasons for visiting ancient sites : each has its own unique atmosphere which we can literally take into our very being .
11	I never use plonk — it contributes nothing to the recipe and can ruin a dish .
12	Tony looked again at the poster — felt it drawing him to the past — the glamour of showbusiness , with its stage-door Johnnies and exciting , feminine showgirls .
13	For example , in Lonrho/House of Fraser ( 1979 ) , it concerned itself with the managerial capacity of a particular individual .
14	I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world .
15	Promoting it financing it from the .
16	She 'd loved the stones it smoothed , and its wildness when it flung itself over the promenade wall , scattering gravel and driftwood .
17	It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution 's regulations , resources and ethos .
18	Moreover , it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy .
19	It offers none of the support for removable drives ( floppies and Syquest volumes ) that Stacker provides , which some will doubtless miss , but is purely and simply ( and simple is the watch word here ) a device for squeezing more data onto a fixed disk drive .
20	It manifested itself in the small hours at such an advanced stage that no cure save amputation of the head could bring relief .
21	Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed .
22	Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme .
23	Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes .
24	It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs .
25	‘ The forgetfulness and repeating things all the time — it drives me round the bend . ’
26	And it produced nothing like the furore that the almost contemporary list of ‘ Great British Novelists ’ did .
27	I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream .
28	You watch it peel itself into the sea .
29	Certainly , it regarded itself as the leader of the Six : the British proposal would weaken that position .
30	Yanto Gates broke through the blackthorn hedge which separated the Severn bank from the adjacent Berkeley to Gloucester canal towpath , and surveyed the scene before him He loved this river , but tonight , bathed in this unusually bright moonlight , it moved him to the point of goose pimples .