Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 3 | I got to whisk it , whisk it |
| 4 | He said that if either the Conservatives or Labour sought to go it alone as a minority Government they risked an economic crisis and rising interest rates . |
| 5 | The habit of association among hand-loom weavers could last as long as the class of workmen itself , or at least until it became too unstable and diluted to preserve it . |
| 6 | As in post-Pearl Harbour U.S.A. , a meatless day each week was decreed , but little effort made to enforce it . |
| 7 | He kept pulling on the stick , then swung away and made to carry it off . |
| 8 | ‘ I just got to miss it , ’ shrugs Knopfler . |
| 9 | The governor 's strategists say they became confident that the reform would get through when the state 's biggest business lobby , Associated Industries of Florida , agreed to support it . |
| 10 | None of us expected to see it , but we did . |
| 11 | I do n't think I really expected to see it , but when I did it amused me to follow you , and when you stopped in Wexford it was idle curiosity that prompted my behaviour , nothing else . ’ |
| 12 | Later , Broderick admits that he was drawing on his own feelings about the death of his actor seven years ago , just as his career was taking off ( ‘ He watched everything I did , he was my big influence , and when I finally started to get work , he never got to see it ’ ) . |
| 13 | No one ever got to see it complete , except me and Terry of course . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have a Matchbox racing set I had bought and put away for him for that coming Christmas , but he never got to see it . |
| 15 | No I ge , I got to see it |
| 16 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 17 | And Alfred P Sloan , who pioneered decentralization at General Motors in the early 1920s , lived to see it become international corporate practice by the time he published his best-selling memoirs in 1964 . |
| 18 | Creating an image , in this sense , is an external systematizing activity ; which is not to say that Zuwaya failed to recognize the finished product or failed to enjoy it . |
| 19 | It was a most successful party , and the only person who failed to enjoy it was the one for whom it had been given . |
| 20 | It was released in space on Oct. 19 to begin a six-year 2,500-million-mile voyage to study the planet Jupiter , on a gravitationally assisted trajectory planned to swing it once past the planet Venus and twice around the Earth . |
| 21 | Judaism , as we have seen , has always emphasised the wholeness of man 's nature and sought to sustain it . |
| 22 | I was bitterly ashamed of what I was doing , or letting people do to me , but also of course I got to like it , and even crave it , in a manner of speaking . |
| 23 | It was quite away from the area I 'd been brought up in , but I got to like it and make friends , and I got more independent . |
| 24 | No , she bloody ought to after the first couple of dozen times , but anyway , when they come back and we got back at night and we started playing them and putting things on er you know they got to like it |
| 25 | She looked at the clock , frustrated to find it was only a little after eleven . |
| 26 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 27 | It was due in tomorrow and he planned to write it tonight . |
| 28 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 29 | But he was clearly relieved when I agreed to accept it at his hands . |
| 30 | At which Bunny fussily swooped to retrieve it . |