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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I flung it on the open ledger on the table .
2	Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required .
3	Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I !
4	‘ I found it on the barbed wire .
5	So I moved it to the other side of the step .
6	I caught it in the other hand .
7	I opposed it from the very beginning .
8	The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly .
9	I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime .
10	I hawked it around the great Guardian brains , chaps with double firsts from Oxbridge , and none could help .
11	When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight .
12	Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it .
13	Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot .
14	Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been .
15	So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force .
16	So I took it to the British Museum , who identified it for me .
17	But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ .
18	I did it in the dull knowledge that there was no way I could get up that hill .
19	And I I have n't I with the No it 's very simple , I left it to the select committees of the House of Commons .
20	She read it through the following morning and decided not to send it , but a small niggle of grievance stayed in her mind .
21	How you going to know exactly where the boundaries go or i in between some land-lock countries that you got it in the right position
22	Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing .
23	God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch .
24	‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers .
25	Telling the story , as she imagined it of the mad wife .
26	It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube .
27	She heard it in the raised treble , saw it in the bright eyes .
28	And she frightened it into the supreme effort that carried it up , soaring and stretching , reaching beyond any achievement it knew of , until , by a hairsbreadth , it gained the crest of the fallen trunk .
29	Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end .
30	It 's worth also mentioning , since you saw it in the practical class , that staphylococci in general produce this enzyme catalase all of these er lo thi this is the enzyme which breaks down hydrogen peroxide and detoxifies it .