Example sentences of "it [vb infin] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though her hair was not quite dry Franca began to plait it very fast , letting a long thick plait materialise between her nimble hands , then tossing it over her shoulder and letting it hang down over the back of the chair . |
| 2 | Frau Nordern heaved up her brief-case and let it fall on to the desk with a satisfying , rather official thud . |
| 3 | She let it fall back into the water when she heard what John had told Larry . |
| 4 | He played with a rubber washer that came drifting by , trying to make it spin around in the air in front of his nose . |
| 5 | For some moments Harry gazes at them in silence , slowly plucking the lefthand strap of his braces away from the shoulder , and letting it snap back against the shirt . |
| 6 | There 's er a collar and a what they call a which is a protein tube and then it has various spikes at the end that make it stick on to the outside of the bacteria . |
| 7 | Yes it did it run down to the river and we used to have to write to get a permit to camp on there for the week but then there used to be an old , the old foreman of he used to come round every Saturday night , have you got your permit ? |
| 8 | How , how did it work out on the champion of champions night with having the the table show , the full table show that we cancelled when Danny came er how did it work er did it work out comfortably ? |
| 9 | You 've got to watch that you see , did it revolve back on the children . |
| 10 | Minutes later eyewitnesses saw it spiral out of the sky and crash just thirty yards from the firm 's buildings . |
| 11 | ‘ Is course relevant to functions and development of library service , how does it fit in with the needs of the employees who should attend ? |
| 12 | Two , how does it fit in with the Joint Planning Officer who 's also ready in post ? , |
| 13 | Just make it twist round at the side and then it wo n't touch it . |
| 14 | Slipped out of the hand quite obviously that , it was n't a deliberate beamer we must add that , that 's went out today , thirty-four , here 's Lawrence , bowls outside the off stump and the new batsman who is not yet off the mark , lets it go through to the wicket keeper . |
| 15 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 16 | They saw it go out of the valley down towards Keswick . |
| 17 | If the pointer is moving slowly back , then let it go back to the edge of the circle ; then 1 turn towards the movement 2°-5° ( according to rate of change ) until it is steady . |
| 18 | But how will it go down with the fans like England soccer heroes Gary Lineker and Des Walker or film stars Liz Taylor and Joan Collins ? |
| 19 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 20 | However unlike the action potential in an axon this wave fades as it goes along so only if the signal is strong enough to begin with will it pass through to the postsynaptic cell body to create a new action potential . |
| 21 | One difference between the pub and the rest of the street was that the brickwork had been painted cream which made it stand out from the long façade of varying shades of red or grey . |
| 22 | Yet another multilevel game that , while enjoyable in most ways , lacks that certain something to make it stand out from the crowd . |
| 23 | ‘ I was quite worried about making it hold up on the screen for two-and-a-half hours and it gave me pause . |
| 24 | Would it hold up for the half-minute or so it would take me to drive across ? |
| 25 | Does it hold on to the exclusive for its major shareholders or go with its journalistic impulses ? |
| 26 | population levels i in the area of Greater York , an allocation would suggest that , he was n't advocating that , it was just a pro rata ball park estimate , and he did n't purport to make it add up to the residual requirement okay ? |
| 27 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 28 | does n't it come back to the issue of wh who they trustees are and who 's interest , given that trustees are expected to be independent , in the end , who 's interests do the trustees represent , because I 've had experience of working with a pension fund that was in massive surplus and the actualar actuaries refused to agree their final report until that surplus was dealt with , so that the trade unions and the employer through the trustees had to negotiate a way of spending that surplus and er given the pressures of the actuaries to say we were not allowed th the funds to continue unless you deal with this surplus , then it comes back to the issue of how the Board of Trustees is made up and if we accept that there is a degree of representation on that Board , then just exactly how that representation is divided . |
| 29 | ‘ I have seen it come down from the sky with a noise like thunder , and I have seen within it the bodies of those who were Too Late ! ’ |
| 30 | What rate does it come out of the end here ? |