Example sentences of "it [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will it survive long into the 1990s ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Frau Nordern heaved up her brief-case and let it fall on to the desk with a satisfying , rather official thud . |
| 4 | She let it fall back into the water when she heard what John had told Larry . |
| 5 | He played with a rubber washer that came drifting by , trying to make it spin around in the air in front of his nose . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Does it follow sensibly from the previous one ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Every part of the business is expected to perform henceforward — no longer will the investment of more money be relied upon as making it work better in the future . |
| 11 | The problem is not to find an alternative to a system that once worked well but no longer does ; the problem is to make it work efficiently for the first time in its 3,000-year history . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | You 've got to watch that you see , did it revolve back on the children . |
| 14 | Minutes later eyewitnesses saw it spiral out of the sky and crash just thirty yards from the firm 's buildings . |
| 15 | Would n't it fit nicely into the appraisal system ? |
| 16 | ‘ Is course relevant to functions and development of library service , how does it fit in with the needs of the employees who should attend ? |
| 17 | Two , how does it fit in with the Joint Planning Officer who 's also ready in post ? , |
| 18 | Just make it twist round at the side and then it wo n't touch it . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Can you can you tell me or have you got a pic , where does the picture usually go ? does it go right at the top or do you usually have a bit of headline what happened in that Mirror one there ? |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | They saw it go out of the valley down towards Keswick . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Yet another multilevel game that , while enjoyable in most ways , lacks that certain something to make it stand out from the crowd . |
| 29 | I ask if rum was in the original recipe and she says , no , and I say that 's what stops the cake standing firm and has made it melt all over the place , and she says , ‘ It 's gon na do the same to you , ’ and we laugh like we 're kids . |
| 30 | ‘ I was quite worried about making it hold up on the screen for two-and-a-half hours and it gave me pause . |