Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
2 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
5 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
6 | They were almost shouting at one another , and both seemed to realise it at the same time . |
7 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
8 | But every time we came up with something we never seemed to get it beyond the initial idea , and then suddenly someone else would come out with it ! |
9 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
10 | Then , slowly , she reached for her brush from the dresser , and began to slide it through the unruly tangle of her hair , taming the fly-away curls until they settled into a softly gleaming curtain that fell over her shoulders . |
11 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
12 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
13 | Tokes suspended his hunger strike on Sept. 11 to avoid pre-electoral controversy , but threatened to resume it after the second round of presidential elections . |
14 | ‘ Whit ’ was dropped from the title but people failed to recognise it as the old Bradford Whit Walk , so the event reverted to the original name . |
15 | They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Lady , a Jack Russell from Hampshire , loves travelling in her owner 's van so much that she decided to transform it into the perfect den to have her puppies . |
18 | Well , 25 of us went to see it on the 13th of February , and it 's a good show . |
19 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
20 | ’ And she meant to use it to the full , though perhaps not in this wasteful way . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | So I went to tax it with the fifty five quid as I thought ! |
23 | A further coat of filler is then applied , then feathered to blend it into the surrounding board |
24 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
25 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
26 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
27 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
28 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
29 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
30 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |