Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 2 | This particular guitar is a bit of a video star ; Dave Stewart used it in the promo for The Eurythmics ' The City Never Sleeps . |
| 3 | He and Donna used it during the summer , making frequent weekend trips ; Ward himself had written at least two books there . |
| 4 | Almost a hundred years later , the great American dramatist Thornton Wilder turned it into The Merchant of Yonkers and later revised it , changing the name to The Matchmaker . |
| 5 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 6 | Alter this technique had been invented , it was only a matter of time before weapons designers adapted it for the detection of submarines . |
| 7 | Woolley touched it with the muzzle of his gun . |
| 8 | The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State . |
| 9 | With bids all over the room , as well as on phones , the Baltimore Museum 's $28,000 ( £20,000 ) bid took it beyond the grasp of New York painting dealer Stuart Feld ( who really did n't need it , having nine others ) . |
| 10 | I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts . |
| 11 | I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and |
| 12 | He wrote a cheque and Josh okayed it with the bank — phoned Hnatiuk , the manager , at home . ’ |
| 13 | Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water . |
| 14 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 15 | Caron wrote it in the aftermath of the '92 riots in LA where she was living at the time . |
| 16 | More than anyone before him , Herschel extended the domain of astronomy beyond the confines of the Solar System to the whole Galaxy ; Hubble extended it beyond the Galaxy to the ‘ realm of the nebulae ’ — presumably to the whole physical Universe . |
| 17 | My local authority of Calderdale spent responsibly , and a Government Department patted it on the back , saying that it was the second most efficient metropolitan authority in the country . |
| 18 | When the meal was ready Ianthe ate it in the dining room , which opened on to the garden now piled with drifts of sycamore leaves . |
| 19 | This divine artificer was , in effect , the principle of reason , which by imposing order on chaos reduced it to the rule of law . |
| 20 | Until the second world war , the Berlin exchange was the most important on the Continent ; national division reduced it to the status of a small regional market . |
| 21 | It was reproduced in the Boston underground paper , and the following year , when Jean Luc Godard came to England to film British Sounds , Rowbotham read it over the soundtrack . |
| 22 | Ant : You do n't like school discos " cos your mum turned up at the last one at nine o'clock to take you home , and Fungus announced it over the mike . |
| 23 | Arriving home at half past twelve at night , Rachaela found it in the downstairs hall , another tenant had obviously taken it in . |
| 24 | Rachaela dropped it in the bin . |
| 25 | It was already half full with stagnant rain water , so Mildred filled it to the brim , then carried it back to the yard window-sill , collecting her broomstick on the way . |
| 26 | Rescuing a piece of the frill from the dress , Ellie cut it to the shape she wanted , attached it with pins to the back of the headband , laid it down , picked up Terry 's brush , backcombed the other girl 's hair so that it stood further out from her head , giving a similarity of the style she thought she should have , carefully arranged the head-dress , and turned Terry back to the mirror . |
| 27 | Hall implied that adolescence covered the years from sexual maturity to the end of physical growth in a person 's twenties , which was not dissimilar to the early nineteenth-century concept of youth , but all those who followed Hall equated it with the teen years . |
| 28 | Usually when she got home with the bread Léonie dumped it on the kitchen table . |
| 29 | If that is how Cardiff High School was when Goronwy Rees knew it in the year of my birth , then it was not very different eleven years later . |
| 30 | Fierce Eyes ' spear took it in the shoulder . |