Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing on opposite sides of the pile , Mina and Kāli beat it with wooden spades , softening the clay and mixing in the cow-dung . |
| 2 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 3 | My readings in Zen , too , had shown me the folly of love , analysed it as an illusion among all the other illusions of this floating and temporary world , an emotion that by its very nature created suffering . |
| 4 | Throughout his life Eliot brought the anguish of his difficult and divided nature to the surface of his poetry , just as in oblique form he analysed it in his prose . |
| 5 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 6 | Relieved Rangers manager Walter Smith knew it would need something special to break Marseille 's French resistance , and McSwegan provided it by finishing off a superb move started by Ian Durrant . |
| 7 | She took off her shoe and put it on the table and modified it with her two index fingers . |
| 8 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 9 | ( Or groundsperson , as you quickly modified it to , though let me assure you grateful as I am for your awareness of the issues involved that I have no simplistic sensibilities to be offended in this area . ) |
| 10 | I picked it up after the election and modified it in the light of the amendments that we had tabled when we were in opposition . |
| 11 | Helen took a tape-measure out of her pocket and suspended it above the grave . |
| 12 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 13 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 14 | There are frequent references to it in Anglo-Saxon writings , and the Greeks and Romans made much use of it ; the Greek army doctor Dioscorides listed it amongst medical herbs , and Pliny also describes it . |
| 15 | She walked across the clearing and prodded it with the gun till it fell to the ground . |
| 16 | He prodded it with a toe . |
| 17 | As his own name shrivelled in the heat , he dropped the envelope into the ashtray and watched it burn to a husk , then prodded it into tiny fragments with the extinguished match . |
| 18 | She twisted the comic into a tube on her lap and clenched it like a truncheon . |
| 19 | Kragan moved his hand over the butt of his revolver and loosened it in its holster . |
| 20 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 21 | He took a chestnut from the pan and bounced it from hand to hand as he turned cheerily to enquire after Mrs Frere 's welfare . |
| 22 | They never actually moved in and they promised it to Daddy . |
| 23 | I never doubted it for a minute , Jane , never . |
| 24 | Although the public as a whole accepted that loyalist extremists had destroyed the Alliance Party headquarters , a number of local people , including some caught in the blast of the explosion , doubted it from the beginning . |
| 25 | She ranged it beside a dozen other pots and jars and bottles on her dressing-table and it looked well . |
| 26 | The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot , then swivelled and hooked it to one of the young boys with his right , smiling to himself . |
| 27 | Under the umbrella they had to walk very close together and after a while he took her hand and hooked it through his arm . |
| 28 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |
| 29 | He hooked it into the bunker on the left of the green . |
| 30 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |