Example sentences of "it [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In related families , the skin has spines and needles attached to it so the creatures are known as echinoderms , " spiny skins " . |
| 2 | So the whole weight of the whole er the gear that actually sent the crusher going and made it so the jaws the swing jaw swing and all that , was er hanging on the cap you see . |
| 3 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 4 | The management want me to put another voice on it so the rushes do n't go to waste . |
| 5 | Then it was gone ; and Bigwig 's fur was blowing in the whack of wind that followed it down the hedges . |
| 6 | I miss my painting , and hope that by keeping still it will , like some small exotic animal , find its way back tome without my attempting to chase it down the byways of my exhausted creativity . |
| 7 | The most hair-raising operation at Honister was not digging the slate , but getting it down the fells to sheds where the material was riven and dressed for transportation by packhorse to ports and river barges . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's how the Pooleys have held on to it down the generations . |
| 9 | Pour it down the drains if necessary . |
| 10 | She showed Léonie how to roll up the used towel in a paper bag , smuggle it down the backstairs into the kitchen , bury it in the red heart of the range . |
| 11 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 12 | Arthur de la Mare of the British Foreign Office remarked that one of the most noteworthy features of the broadcast by Hugh Borton and Edwin Martin was Borton 's admission that the failure of the Joint Commission was not entirely an American responsibility , ‘ nor was it entirely the Russians ’ . |
| 13 | Now is it just the Managers , what about the rank and file of the workforce ? |
| 14 | Erm can I just clarify that the thirty million of erm savings , was that actual redundancy costs which took place in ninety two or was that redundancy costs plus the sav commensurate savings which will then benefit ninety three er or was it just the savings ? |
| 15 | Is it just the contents ? |
| 16 | Is it not the parents |
| 17 | Is it somehow the Jews ' fault ? |
| 18 | Rotterdam this month brought it home the hooligans are continuing to plague the game . |
| 19 | It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations . |
| 20 | Visualise the air you breathe in as clean and white and the air you exhale as dark and black , which takes with it both the toxins of the body and the troubles of the mind . |
| 21 | And whenever Patrick consecrated a church , he was said to have left in it both the Gospels and a copy of the Mosaic Law . |
| 22 | It was fairly loose and when I pulled it out the shells started dropping into the hole . |
| 23 | When I turned on the dishwasher or washing machine , the power required was taken out of the underfloor heat and returned to it immediately the machines were switched off . |
| 24 | how did they take it then the lads ? |
| 25 | Oh I think I 'll leave it there the dishes are so hot ! |
| 26 | If you push the lever down and leave it there the flaps will reach their maximum angle and the selector will automatically jump back into neutral so that the hydraulic circuit can idle . |