Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 2 | When Maastricht was agreed 11 months ago , all countries pledged to ratify it before the end of this year . |
| 3 | A circle of light illuminated the group gathered round the bank of screens ; another shone on the blue box , the battered structure that the Doctor call his TARDIS , standing where the androids had left it near the edge of the room . |
| 4 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 5 | Dorothy 's Wrinkled Stocking tearoom — named after broom-wielding battleaxe Norah Batty — has been overrun with trippers since BBC chiefs chose to feature it in the evergreen Pennine series . |
| 6 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 7 | Presumably she bolted the door after her for that was how the police had found it in the morning . |
| 8 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 9 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 10 | In the final minutes of the spacecraft 's descent , Soviet ground controllers tried to guide it towards the ocean but lacked the necessary fuel . |
| 11 | Others liked to sell it by the ton ; measure it out after it had been trussed . |
| 12 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 13 | The local name of the place , the Gold Pit , implies that a good deal of gold was robbed from the site before the French archaeologists started excavating it in the 1920s , and there is good reason to suppose that the so-called Aegina Treasure , which is now in the British Museum , originated here . |