Example sentences of "it [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 2 | Because what 's the point in doing no matter how good you think you 're doing , what 's the point of doing it for yourself in the living room , you want er everybody to listen to it . |
| 3 | Everyone knows that , and the Israelites discovered it for themselves in the wilderness . |
| 4 | ‘ You can cut it for me after the party , ’ he told her , which everybody took to be a big joke . |
| 5 | But I 've just reached the door when his escorts do it for me in the corridor . |
| 6 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 7 | The first is to find a timber merchant or cabinet maker who is prepared to machine it for you to the pattern you want — likely to be expensive . |
| 8 | Also for Bargain Basement , that 's the feature today , if you 've got an item for sale , five pounds or under , we 'll sell it for you on the programme . |
| 9 | I tipped the wink to a pal of mine who 's big in local government , and he managed to fix it for someone from the public health authority to write a letter full of threats and demands and legal gobbledegook . |
| 10 | Quite apart from all the pictures in the papers , she had seen it for herself at the presentation . |
| 11 | She was godmother to my baby , and when it grew she took to it , and used to have it about her at the Castle , saying to everyone it was an orphan . |
| 12 | They wear their professionalism as a decent gentleman will wear his suit : he will not let ruffians or circumstance tear it off him in the public gaze ; he will discard it when , and only when , he wills to do so , and this will invariably be when he is entirely alone . |
| 13 | He 'll have it out himself with the Venetians . ’ |
| 14 | He then produced the £15 and counted it out himself on the corner of the table , not letting the chairman or anyone else do so . |
| 15 | I gritted my teeth and picked the warm remnant up , took it back to the Grounds and flung it into them from the top of the bank . |
| 16 | In most cases the point of looking at style in this way is to connect it with something outside the text . |
| 17 | They took it with them to the ‘ Royal ’ and called on Bessie . |
| 18 | It was previously thought that the tiny plants leached carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in creating their skeletons , taking it with them to the sea bed when they died . |
| 19 | They kept the money at their council house in Chard , but took it with them on the rare occasions they went out . |
| 20 | She had fed the precious child herself and carried it with her into the fields , watching it as she wielded a hoe or sickle , tears of weakness and fatigue often coursing down her dusty cheeks . |
| 21 | They need not prove that the accused had it with him with the intention of using it to cause injury to the person . |
| 22 | And the court was told that the victim 's ear could have been saved — but he failed to take it with him to the hospital . |
| 23 | It was n't until I threatened to bring my men down to discuss it with him at the Swan Inn that he had a change of mind . |
| 24 | One Carmelite warrior had found , in southern Bohemia , a small icon of a Madonna and had taken it with him into the battle . |
| 25 | St Boniface took it with him into the Frankish kingdom . |
| 26 | But the band stuck by me , worked out a routine with me , and busked through it with me for the rest of the run . |
| 27 | So I took it with me on the Hiroshima mission . |
| 28 | And could I come and 'ave it with you at the table ? ’ |
| 29 | The black lashes flickered as he said , ‘ I 'm sure your father will discuss it with you at the appropriate moment … ’ |
| 30 | Once you 've found a style you like , it always helps to take a picture of it with you to the salon . |