Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the way across not one stone moved or even trembled as she jumped on to it or swayed on top of it or clutched at the sides of it ! |
| 2 | In Stones [ 1989 ] 1 WLR 156 ( CA ) , Glidewell LJ said that : " The mischief at which the section is clearly aimed is that if a burglar has a weapon which he intends to use to injure some person unconnected with the premises burgled , he may nevertheless be tempted to use it if challenged during the course of the burglary and put under sufficient pressure . " |
| 3 | Similarly , gender neutrality which is theoretically desirable might in practice have little to commend it if introduced into the law of rape as it is presently constructed . |
| 4 | They were apprehensive about opening it and sent for the Bomb Squad . |
| 5 | Going to a built-in wardrobe he opened it and flicked through the many articles of clothing hanging there . |
| 6 | Maurin , who had been longing for an excuse to escape , said he would go himself to attend to it and made for the door . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) On any application for the renewal of a licence , the licensing board may require a plan of the premises to which the application relates to be produced to it and lodged with the clerk . |
| 8 | Chesarynth sensed it and realized for the first time that what she was hearing was nothing but verbally-trimmed ideas . |
| 9 | You know when you 're small , you cover yourself with ropes of it and run along the beach ? |
| 10 | He took it and crawled into the hide . |
| 11 | The coroner ignored it and crossed to the end of the room , where he took up his favourite position a-straddle the fireplace . |
| 12 | Golden motes drifted from it and hung in the air . |
| 13 | Without another word she went back into the kitchen then came out to him , closed the front door after her without locking it and got into the car . |
| 14 | She ran it beneath the cold tap for a moment then dried it and returned to the pan , lowering the heat , scooping the eggs out and onto a plate . |
| 15 | Léonie left her to it and returned to the kitchen . |
| 16 | Likely I would have dropped it and returned to the strumming . ’ |
| 17 | He admired it and talked about the artist 's meaning , and the noble ideas he attributed to him . |
| 18 | He clung shivering to the comfortless bed that seemed now the only tenuous security he had , but he was plucked away from it and hustled through the doorway , still bemused with cold and sleep . |
| 19 | There hardly could be a harder act to follow than Gary Armstrong , universally rated the outstanding scrum-half in the world game , but Andrew Nicol of Dundee High School FP made an impressive stab at it when thrown to the English wolves at Murrayfield on January 18 . |
| 20 | Mrs. Carlill saw the advertisement , purchased a smoke ball , used it as instructed for the specified period and nevertheless caught ‘ flu . |
| 21 | The " Green Movement " is not necessarily the friend of religion — it can displace it as understood within the great religious traditions , giving rise to a neo-paganism which challenges them . |
| 22 | The motion which I am anxious to put before the full plenary session of the European Parliament is in fact a motion to ban lead from petrol completely , not merely to reduce it as stated in the article . , |
| 23 | The only way the trust can be given effect is by construing it as charged on the intestate heir in favour of some other person . |
| 24 | b ) Place strip 1 on your desk and carefully put the ¼ piece , from the second strip , beside it as shown on the side . |
| 25 | Now work out the following by forming an equation and solving it as shown in the last example . |