Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 2 | In the 1960s and 1970s the Standing Conference on University Entrance tried to deal with it on a large-scale basis but repeated efforts to bring about improvements of connection amounted to little . |
| 3 | And I tried to get on it at the beginning of the week but he told me it was fully booked . |
| 4 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 5 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 6 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 7 | Her scalp gleamed as if freshly oiled , and pornographic tattoos seemed to writhe across it with a life of their own . |
| 8 | I 'd worked on it as the slide projectionist One of the reasons we were all so keen on going to the party was that Faustus was a joint production with the local girls school . |
| 9 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 10 | Naturally , he tried to hush it up after , but your dad got to hear of it from the doctor and he did n't half go for Josh — you can imagine . |
| 11 | I got to hear about it from the police . ’ |
| 12 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 13 | When the council threatened to raise the rents some of the local men started arguing about it in a local pub . |
| 14 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 15 | But , still , he liked to hear about it from the others . |
| 16 | He preferred to think of it as a meaningful social comment , which it certainly was not , otherwise the dialogue and plot might not have been so banal . |
| 17 | Rather than calling this a paradox ( as others did ) the authors preferred to think of it as an indication of the incompleteness of quantum theory . |
| 18 | This exhibition had received little attention in the press , though l'Autorité and Paris Journal had referred to it as an ‘ exhibition of Fauves and Cubists ’ no doubt through a confusion of terms , but also partly because this seemed the only way of describing the manifold tendencies represented , which were as divergent as at Brussels . |
| 19 | Barely six months earlier , however , another trap had been laid and I had fallen into it with a resounding thud . |
| 20 | Even so , it had taken some little effort on his part , for here was this relatively obscure relation who had fallen into an estate , which , although small , was of no mean value , and he had fallen into it by a series of dead men 's shoes . |
| 21 | In the past , when his thoughts had turned to it as a young boy 's thoughts will , his body had n't followed his mind . |
| 22 | Ma Bombie had scratched round it with a broom as ancient as herself and with slightly fewer bristles than she had on her chin . |
| 23 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 24 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 25 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 26 | The Government had played with it as a possible weapon against the King . |
| 27 | Nobody had known about it at the time . |
| 28 | In September 1715 , immediately after the death of Louis XIV , the Parlement of Paris had restored to it by the Regent , the Duc d'Orléans , the right of remonstrance which allowed it to impede royal legislation . |
| 29 | Nevertheless he did not base his decision upon section 25 , but held that the sellers ' lien was defeated because the sellers , who knew in advance of the sub-sale , had assented to it in a way that indicated their intention to forego the lien . |
| 30 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |