Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 3 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 4 | Millie remembered it from the previous evening . |
| 5 | Anna reached the door and as she fumbled for the latch , Melody opened it from the other side . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge , Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger . |
| 10 | ‘ Tennents did it in the wrong way . |
| 11 | Viscount Dunedin expressed it in the following words : |
| 12 | But young Morton found it among the dead cases , all the same . ’ |
| 13 | Word reached him of a Corsair in southern France , and after viewing the airframe , Harris purchased it from the French authorities for $ 1,000 , and shipped it to San Francisco in early 1974 . |
| 14 | Hereford left it to the bitter end to secure their 1-1 draw . |
| 15 | And on Saturday , in the rain at Newmarket , Jeremy Glover savoured it to the full . |
| 16 | Super Mario Land by the Ambassadors Of Funk featuring MC Mario made it into the Top 10 in November . |
| 17 | However , no sooner was the intrigue launched than Baldwin killed it by the simple expedient of deciding to remain in office and meet Parliament . |
| 18 | Bowen delivered the ideal ball into the penalty area and Sutton reached it before the advancing Norman only to flick it a yard or so over the top . |
| 19 | Nick spotted it by the sudden flash of light on its chassis , then put it from his mind . |
| 20 | In the twenty seventh minute , Abingdon scored their second when Darren Hickey played an excellent ball through to Aries and Aries lobbed it over the advancing keeper into the back of the net with Kevin Connelly following up to make certain . |
| 21 | On 31 May de Gaulle formed his cabinet and on 1 June presented it to the National Assembly , where it was confirmed by the margin of 329 votes to 224 ( with the majority composed of conservatives , centrists , and half the socialist deputies ) . |