Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
2 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
3 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
4 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
5 | We gently lowered it to the floor . |
6 | He took hold of her hand and gently directed it under the blanket which shrouded him . |
7 | Now thoroughly rattled , he bowled a no-ball , from which Lamb curiously took a single and so lost the strike ; but when Walsh now sent down a full toss , Foster gleefully walloped it to the rope and England had won . |
8 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |
9 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
10 | They could n't cope either and , in desperation , literally dumped it on the doorstep . |
11 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
12 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
13 | After proctors of the lower clergy had objected in 1269 to being committed to a grant simply by the assent of the bishops , a council of prelates in the next year agreed on their own behalf to a subsidy of one twentieth for the king , but only extended it to the rest of the clergy after approval by diocesan synods . |
14 | Conchis suddenly gaffed it into the boat , slashed its sac with a knife , turned it inside out in a moment . |
15 | ‘ I only wrapped it with the sheet , ’ she said . |
16 | ‘ I only stole it for the wire , ’ she said , ‘ but now we 've got it I suppose we might as well drink it . ’ |
17 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
18 | She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life . |
19 | So the Queen and I just made it before the deluge ! |
20 | I du n no , I just read it in the book saying what a blow job is . |
21 | We finally made it to the road and sped along towards the village in a cloud of dust , the three of us crouching low in the jeep . |
22 | What did it feel like when you finally made it to the summit of Everest ? |
23 | I just approached it in the way I would were it my album and my band . |
24 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
25 | He did n't hesitate and straight away reported it to the referee . |
26 | If until 1832 the working class seen in a Marxist perspective as a proletariat was emergent and potential , if it had yet fully to identify itself , the Reform Bill of that year finally distinguished it from the rest of society . |
27 | Yes and I thought it was mucking it up so I just swapped it over the way it was . |
28 | It just poked it off the end . |
29 | Carl Glenn , a commission investigator , describing events in El Chorrillo , a poor , primarily Black neighbourhood located near the Panamanian Defense Force headquarters , where 10,000 were made homeless , said : US troops bombed the community , shelled it with heavy artillery , strafed it and finally burned it to the ground . |
30 | Well , that 's all that ready just popped it in the oven . |