Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the convention as anti-parliament is understood as assuming that the people 's wishes must prevail , that the convention better expressed those wishes than parliament and therefore in any contest between the two popular loyalty should be to the convention , as abolitionists employed it in the 1830s , it was closer to a focus for intensifying ‘ pressure from without ’ than an alternative to parliament . |
| 32 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 33 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 34 | ‘ Perhaps that 's because it was a private home until its owner gave it to the National Trust . |
| 35 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 36 | Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself . |
| 37 | Young couples took their children to it as soon as their legs were long enough ; old people accepted it as the first of their last climbs and many beery pledges were made to the mountain in the Deeside pubs . |
| 38 | A thing of great beauty , it was not unusual to hear sharp intakes of breath as people beheld it for the first time . |
| 39 | Park Court , which houses Hilda 's flat , was at one time an outhouse for a local manor , but in 1931 the owner left it to the local council who then converted it into a fire station . |
| 40 | The Royal Commission explained it in the following way : |
| 41 | This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing . |
| 42 | But young Morton found it among the dead cases , all the same . ’ |
| 43 | Defoe and Richardson enjoyed it in the eighteenth century , Dickens in the next . |
| 44 | Oxford left it until the second half for their equaliser . |
| 45 | There is still a skid mark from one end of the runway to where the ‘ Fury left it at the other end . |
| 46 | Of the leading English contenders , Peter Marshall , Chris Walker and Del Harris made it to the last 16 . |
| 47 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 48 | There is no evidence , however , for thinking that , in general , people who reckon descent in the male line reckoned it in the female line before . |
| 49 | Schools allocated to teach the FSE project taught it during the three months immediately after administration of the questionnaire . |
| 50 | Those schools allocated to use the SAM project taught it in the early part of the second school year ( November 1988 to February 1989 ) and the first follow up study was conducted in March 1989 . |
| 51 | This band of gold probably originates from Egypt , where lovers wore it on the fourth finger of the right hand or ring finger . |
| 52 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 53 | But as the cockboat went aground on the sandy beach and the six men heaved it above the high-water mark , Harry saw that Sam was not with them , and by the expressions on their faces , he knew that something was wrong . |
| 54 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 55 | That did it With his well-known temper getting the better of him , he jumped on the fish with both feet The fish was almost spent With both hands locked around the monster 's tail , the gleeful Yanto dragged it through the shallow water on to the hard sand . |
| 56 | The farm 's now seven times bigger than it was when his grandfather ran it in the 1920's . |
| 57 | Word reached him of a Corsair in southern France , and after viewing the airframe , Harris purchased it from the French authorities for $ 1,000 , and shipped it to San Francisco in early 1974 . |
| 58 | Hereford left it to the bitter end to secure their 1-1 draw . |
| 59 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 60 | And on Saturday , in the rain at Newmarket , Jeremy Glover savoured it to the full . |