Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 2 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 3 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 4 | Heritage groups had feared it would leave the country after the Tate Gallery failed to buy it before the sale . |
| 5 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 6 | When Maastricht was agreed 11 months ago , all countries pledged to ratify it before the end of this year . |
| 7 | They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess . |
| 8 | The IAC held a press conference to trumpet their document and announced that every international athlete had signed it with the exceptions of Steve and me . |
| 9 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 10 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 11 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
| 12 | Dolly had reduced it to the size of an irregular-sided marble . |
| 13 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 14 | Unmistakable , even though I had never seen one before ; a big bird , brown and grey with a red throat , low in the water , where the wind-rippled surface managed to camouflage it in the most extraordinary way . |
| 15 | A circle of light illuminated the group gathered round the bank of screens ; another shone on the blue box , the battered structure that the Doctor call his TARDIS , standing where the androids had left it near the edge of the room . |
| 16 | The Briton would presumably have also been issued with a name-badge but with a British horror of self-advertisement had taken it off the moment he could . |
| 17 | Joseph had made it through the gate , but was cornered by the populace in an alley . |
| 18 | One god suggested placing it at the top of the highest mountain ; another on the farthest star . |
| 19 | ‘ Whit ’ was dropped from the title but people failed to recognise it as the old Bradford Whit Walk , so the event reverted to the original name . |
| 20 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 21 | GPU alleges that the commission failed to warn it about the safety hazards of the Three Mile Island reactor . |
| 22 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 23 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 24 | If it is a popular tune , its spread through the meme pool may be gauged by the number of people heard whistling it in the streets . |
| 25 | Dorothy 's Wrinkled Stocking tearoom — named after broom-wielding battleaxe Norah Batty — has been overrun with trippers since BBC chiefs chose to feature it in the evergreen Pennine series . |
| 26 | In despair at the greasiness of her hair , Daisy had washed it in the river — how the hell had women coped in biblical times ? — and it had dried all crinkly . |
| 27 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 28 | It 'll Be All Right on the Night host Dennis Norden searched for his cordless telephone , only to discover that his pet dog had buried it in the garden of his London home . |
| 29 | The profession 's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma , forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality . |
| 30 | They said the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , had discussed the proposal with the Egyptian president , Hosni Mubarak , in Cairo on Wednesday and Egypt had put it to the United States . |