Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The very thought of it chills me to the bone . " |
| 2 | But it got him in the end . |
| 3 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 4 | WordPerfect on it to compare it with the other one and it was I er said |
| 5 | Every time you think you 've sussed this game it kicks you in the arse . ’ |
| 6 | The Virgin bent her head to the dove in pictures of the Annunciation , and it pierced her through the ear , bringing her the Word that was life itself , down into her womb ; that was what Rosa wanted , Tommaso 's mouth next to her ear , until she , like the woman with her lover in the doorway , would wriggle and gasp . |
| 7 | It points me to the verse numbered twenty-one , and the line is : ‘ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ ’ |
| 8 | it points us towards the reasons for visiting ancient sites : each has its own unique atmosphere which we can literally take into our very being . |
| 9 | Tony looked again at the poster — felt it drawing him to the past — the glamour of showbusiness , with its stage-door Johnnies and exciting , feminine showgirls . |
| 10 | I found the way here when I was a boy , and it spoils you for the human world . |
| 11 | Promoting it financing it from the . |
| 12 | Moreover , it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy . |
| 13 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 14 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 15 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 16 | It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs . |
| 17 | ‘ The forgetfulness and repeating things all the time — it drives me round the bend . ’ |
| 18 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 19 | Yanto Gates broke through the blackthorn hedge which separated the Severn bank from the adjacent Berkeley to Gloucester canal towpath , and surveyed the scene before him He loved this river , but tonight , bathed in this unusually bright moonlight , it moved him to the point of goose pimples . |
| 20 | It caught her on the elbow of her right arm and sliced right through the botched teflon sutures that held the forearm below it in place . |
| 21 | It covers me for the preparation work to an industrial tribunal . |
| 22 | Mm , so what if could erm , could come up with a policy , that you pay your premiums in , but it covers you for the whole of your life . |
| 23 | Within the Rolling Stone thing , I mean , part of it has you as the chief designer and you have to accept the notion that two heads are better than one , which means designers can not |
| 24 | His beloved father , Jack , had no especial love for cricket , although later on young John would delight in a recollection that when cricket began to seek better playing surfaces it found them in the graveyards . |
| 25 | That gesture was so unexpected and beautiful that it remained in Agnes 's memory like the imprint of a lightning bolt ; it invited her into the depths of space and time and awakened in the sixteen-year-old girl a vague and immense longing . |
| 26 | If it does catch it , it knocks it to the ground and then grabs its throat in its strong jaws , killing it by suffocation . |
| 27 | What , it bash you in the back of the neck ? |
| 28 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 29 | Subtitled Diana Unclothed , it compared her to the Lady of Shallott , Greta Garbo , Sleeping Beauty and Mother Theresa . |
| 30 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |