Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 4 | Her scalp gleamed as if freshly oiled , and pornographic tattoos seemed to writhe across it with a life of their own . |
| 5 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 6 | When the council threatened to raise the rents some of the local men started arguing about it in a local pub . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Barely six months earlier , however , another trap had been laid and I had fallen into it with a resounding thud . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ma Bombie had scratched round it with a broom as ancient as herself and with slightly fewer bristles than she had on her chin . |
| 14 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 15 | The Government had played with it as a possible weapon against the King . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ICI had worked on it in an attempt to make motor fuel from coal , a project with which Fawcett had been involved . |
| 18 | But they said to think of it as a big pat on the back |
| 19 | Confronted with such vast heaps of material one had to think of it as a game . |
| 20 | There was a ‘ Sold ’ sticker on the board , and she stood gazing at it for a moment as though it might provide a magic solution to all her problems . |
| 21 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 22 | He put down the phone , sat staring at it for a moment and then dialled once more . |
| 23 | She opened it with a trembling hand and sat staring at it for a long time . |