Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His great horse earned it with apparent ease — but lost 29lb in the process and came home to Ballydoyle more exhausted than after any of his previous races . |
| 2 | Bennett , the original owner of a Jaguar car entrusted it to one Searle for some repairs to be carried out . |
| 3 | The taxpayer received it on 8 December and it was lodged in the High Court on 15 January 1991 . |
| 4 | The guard examined it in close detail , checking off the listed physical peculiarities . |
| 5 | Decorum demanded it in any case . |
| 6 | The triumph of the Ulster Workers ' Council left it with huge prestige during the remainder of the summer . |
| 7 | Rain reduced it to 37 overs a side and the home team were soon rattling along . |
| 8 | Although they had decided that it was a drill motor , Bernice 's imagination turned it into all sorts of monsters . |
| 9 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 10 | In the early thirteenth century the canons and the laity left it for new Salisbury on the plain , by the river ; and Old Sarum survived only as a castle and a rotten borough . |
| 11 | Only one person managed it on public transport . |
| 12 | Whereas the Formalist concept was related to the literary devices within a text , the Prague School theory applied it to all forms of language . |
| 13 | As one observer put it after goalless draws with Castellon and Mallorca : ‘ Under Beenhakker , the little teams were slaughtered . ’ |
| 14 | There are also these privatization a lot of husbands and wives bought these shares of privatization had it in joint names , well that tax will have been deducted and can be reclaimed also , so er this was a change that came about with independent taxation . |
| 15 | The Rev. Thomas Tolming , incumbent of Church Coniston , not surprisingly was of the opinion that the Sunday School was excellent ; certain ladies of the parish superintended it with great care and attention , improving the moral conditions of their young charges , and no doubt at the same time driving home the virtue of obedience , and respect for God and their betters . |
| 16 | One particularly violent swerve took it right off the counter and Finn caught it in mid air , upside down , wheels spinning . |
| 17 | Second , to obtain recognition , as French Foreign Minister Schuman put it in tripartite talks with the Americans and the British in September , 1949 , that the French were the hard core of resistance to communist attempts to take over , initially , Indo-China and ultimately all of Southeast Asia and that as France was fighting the battle of all the democratic powers she would need help . |
| 18 | Today we had one of those famous assault courses , followed by a ten-mile forced march ; my platoon did it in one hour and forty minutes , which is not too bad . |
| 19 | Indeed , each man refused it with some indignation ; Kissinger in particular thought it outrageous that such an old friend and ally as the Shah should not be allowed into the States . |
| 20 | The hands that normally give the despatch box a confident caress gripped it in white-knuckled nervousness . |
| 21 | Chiang Kai-shek built it with forced labour , and dusty antique-model lorries still ply it , driven by young men in white gloves . |
| 22 | The guy in the black leather took it in both hands . |
| 23 | It recorded the main events of his life , and modern scholarship has in the main verified it from independent documentary sources as well as from Rolle 's own writings . |
| 24 | The peregrine chased it for six miles , and even then the pigeon did not give in . |
| 25 | Sister Eillen Regan , from the board of education of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco , says the board shunned it for two reasons : ‘ It treats nuclear war as survivable and implies nuclear war is a political option ’ . |
| 26 | The General Strike in no way deflected it from that course and it is difficult to see that event as an historical watershed in the evolution of trade union policies and attitudes . |
| 27 | The next survey put it in 10th position and by 1990 the company was fifth . |
| 28 | Only its solidity and quality of construction saved it from total destruction . |
| 29 | The trust ran it for twenty years as something like the proprietors ' colonies of the previous century , but in 1752 it became a royal colony . |
| 30 | This is almost all that can be gleaned from broadly contemporary written sources about the Danish monarchy between c.950 and the accession c.987 of Swegen Forkbeard , who conquered England in 1013 , and whose son Cnut ruled it for nineteen years . |