Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moon was low now and the light , wherever it slanted through the trees , seemed thicker , older and more yellow . |
| 2 | The dog landed awkwardly on its hindlegs , losing its balance , and he looked away sharply as it tumbled under the wheels . |
| 3 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 4 | On 3 March 1919 he presented a paper to a conference of management committees of London societies , on the basis of which it agreed to the principles of amalgamation ( Barnes nd , 1940 ) . |
| 5 | When groundwater flows naturally or is pumped from an unconfined aquifer , it drains from the pores . |
| 6 | How much was it to go to the pictures ? |
| 7 | None of us expected it to go to the proportions it has gone to . |
| 8 | The labour input can be defined as consisting of all the human attributes which are used in producing goods and services and , as such , it differs from the inputs of the other factors of production in one major respect . |
| 9 | For example , if we consider the English phoneme , it is easy to show that it differs from the plosives and in its place of articulation ( alveolar ) , from in being lenis , from and in not being fricative , from in not being nasal , and so on . |
| 10 | Finally , the company donated part of a site which it owned on the shores of Loughrea Lake , to the town of Loughrea … |
| 11 | And so throwing up its hands in horror and resignation it turns to the priests and pastors of religion — of a more primitive world order — and tells them to get on with it . |
| 12 | There appears to be a tendency to go from oral-only to speech with speech-supportive means such as fingerspelling or cued speech ; from those there is a movement in the direction of these of sign to better disambiguate the spoken word ; next comes a signed version of the spoke , language either with speech or without it depending on the circumstances ; and finally . |
| 13 | ‘ When it trades in the securities markets it can be regulated by the SEC . ’ |
| 14 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 15 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 16 | Their main virtue in this respect is their currency , since they provide a pointer to likely public demand ( much of it stemming from the reviews themselves ) . |
| 17 | This delayed the advance of the German right wing but of even more importance — it revealed to the Allies the full and deadly impact of the hitherto unknown and undeployed German howitzers . |
| 18 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 19 | After the Chester Beatty sale of 1969 it passed into the hands of a well-known London bookseller , Alan G. Thomas ( who in 1975 published a fine book , Great Books and Book Collectors ) . |
| 20 | The Lanx , a rectangular dish , 48 x 38 cm and weighing over 10lbs , was discovered by chance in February 1734 or 5 in the bank of the River Tyne at Corbridge in Northumberland by the daughter of the local cobbler , from whom it passed into the hands of the Dukes of Northumberland . |
| 21 | Eventually , in 1739 , it passed to the Maisters , a family of Hull merchants . |
| 22 | The train carrying the body of Cadogan West gave a lurch as it passed over the points and the curve in the rails just before Aldgate Station . |
| 23 | The central charges as items is that it refers to the charges from my own department , legal department , all the other central departments and an input to er the Strategic Planning Committee operating , but it 's not items that the Strategic Planning Committee has a control over , so there 's a change , an estimated change of cost and sometimes that reflects the changes in methodology of agricultural cost and that seems to be happening at the moment . |
| 24 | Rather , it refers to the processes , categories and know ledges through which communities are defined as such : that is , how they are rendered specific and differentiated . |
| 25 | The concept of cohesion is a semantic one ; it refers to the relations of meaning that exist within the text , and that define it as a text ; it occurs when the interpretation of some element in the discourse is dependent on that of another . |
| 26 | It does NOT identify the particular words you must teach : more importantly than that , it points to the patterns that need learning . |
| 27 | The form of order used in M. 's case does not appear as such in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 , but is a standard modernised version of Form No. 85 headed ‘ Order of Committal ( Contemnor Present ) ’ and there is no doubt that it complied with the rules . |
| 28 | Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows . |
| 29 | And that 's virtually all it says but it goes over the words again and again , as if it 's trying to force you to rejoice through learning the words off by rote . |
| 30 | He says that the bid is hostile because it goes over the heads of the directors . |