Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 2 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 3 | When the hamlets were first included in the development area for the new city of Milton keynes in the 1960s , people of Calverton fought it in the High Court and won . |
| 4 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 5 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 6 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 7 | Millie remembered it from the previous evening . |
| 8 | Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) . |
| 9 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 10 | Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side . |
| 11 | Jane saw it in the smallest things , all impossible in self-conscious Britain . |
| 12 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 13 | The one-day game in Trinidad was , according to Wisden ‘ described by many as the best one-day international played in the West Indies ’ , and England won it off the final ball . |
| 14 | Some hours later — no one counted , but it was a long time — eight soaking , snow-covered individuals just — but only just — on the right side of hypothermia made it to the main Teesdale road , which snow ploughs had kept open . |
| 15 | The teaching of deaf children by oral methods alone was not new ; the earliest teachers of the deaf such as Dr. William Holder and Dr. John Wallis tried it in the 1660s with ( as evidence shows ) far less success than they wrote about in the publications which earned them fame . |
| 16 | The startled shopper handed it into the local police station . |
| 17 | The school seemed cold and it was certainly dark for the main windows faced north and tall buildings surrounded it on the other three sides . |
| 18 | The borough of Bandon was reputed to have the most sectarian electorate in county Cork and , in 1835 , Jackson contested it in the Conservative interest . |
| 19 | Susy 's affectionate and gentle nature eased it on the one side , James 's common sense and recognition of Susy 's value to his life made it easier on his . |
| 20 | As Thomas Becon put it in the sixteenth century , it was a ‘ duty of children ’ whose parents were ‘ aged and fallen into poverty , so that they are not able to live of themselves , or to get their living by their own industry and labour ’ , to work and care for them and ‘ provide necessaries for them , ‘ just as in their own childhoods ‘ their parents cared and provided for them . ’ |
| 21 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
| 22 | A coal fell out of the fire , making them both start , and Breeze replaced it with the exaggerated care with which we perform these trivial tasks , when our thoughts are far away . |
| 23 | Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge , Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger . |
| 24 | Booth did it in the last minute , slipping the ball home after Lee Richardson , an outstanding performer in the Aberdeen midfield , had struck the post with a clever shot made possible when Rhodes miskicked . |
| 25 | So obviously you just write down that Rita did it on the 10th . |
| 26 | The Brydges family had owned the property since 1428 , when their ancestor Symon de Brugge bought it from the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard de Ley . |
| 27 | ‘ Tennents did it in the wrong way . |
| 28 | When the community care Support Force was inaugurated , many SSDs regarded it with the same amount of suspicion and distrust as a bird would a snake . |
| 29 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 30 | Viscount Dunedin expressed it in the following words : |