Example sentences of "it [verb] one [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lying next to it is a Wand of Fear which extracts a special cost for use : if a spellcaster picks it up , it drains one point of T permanently from that spellcaster and is then attuned to him , and will function normally . |
| 2 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
| 3 | The following two clauses come from Lincoln CAB 's code of practice and it illustrates one approach to the demarcation of responsibilities within a psychiatric hospital : |
| 4 | East Allegheny displays the most glaring disparity as , whilst it contains one quarter of all North Side dwellings , total investment represents around one eighth of all North Side loans made . |
| 5 | It loses one unit of energy for each step of its walk . |
| 6 | to where it evaporates one step from the bottom , |
| 7 | I mean , I mean I 'm sure it 's useful in the sense that it gets one person through er doing a degree who could n't have done it otherwise , but whether it would actually give you the sort of experience you want , I 'm much more doubtful . |
| 8 | Now it charges one part of the city $12 a ton and still loses money . |
| 9 | Salamanca Old Cathedral , so-called because it forms one unit with the much larger New Cathedral , was built in 1120 78 ( Vol . |
| 10 | Learning linguistic terminology is enabling , because it forms one part of children 's growing vocabulary and thinking . |
| 11 | It takes one calorie– of heat energy to raise one gram of water through one degree Celsius . |
| 12 | It began one morning at breakfast in the days when I was still a bachelor and Tristan and I were taking our places at the mahogany dining table . |
| 13 | It reflects one side of the debate concerning the importance or otherwise of dividends in the process of the market 's valuation of companies , and is discussed in more detail later in this chapter . |
| 14 | It hit one house before crashing into the hallway of Debbie 's 400-year-old home in Donyatt , Somerset . |
| 15 | When the target is a letter , it activates one unit at the letter-detector level but none at the word-detector level ( all word detectors will be inhibited ) . |
| 16 | Rather , it represented one part of a very particular period in British history , and as such was ‘ one aspect of the mid-twentieth century rapprochement between the feudal paternalism of Tory Democracy and the Fabian centralism of Social Democracy ’ ( Gyford , 1985a , p. 88 ) . |
| 17 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 18 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 19 | At its offices in High Holborn in London , one of the firm 's partners explains why it sets one rate for all its customers . |
| 20 | So , if an exemption clause was part of the contract and if on its wording it excused one party from a given liability , then the court had to give effect to the clause , i.e. that party ( usually the seller ) had a valid defence . |
| 21 | It had one advantage of which we were aware . |
| 22 | At least it teaches one respect for facts . |
| 23 | It begins one day in 1880 , in the dancers ' dressing-room … |