Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great . |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 4 | Codron tried to get it on at the Royal Court — on the face of things , an ideal setting-but it was turned down there , too . |
| 5 | I carried my bewilderment into the coffee shop and tried to drown it along with the froth of my cappuccino . |
| 6 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 7 | By the 1970s he 'd moved it back onto the street . |
| 8 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 9 | I remembered — I 'd stuffed it back in the envelope with my dreams . |
| 10 | Sparta had taken Delphi out of Phokian control ; Athens intervened to give it back to the Phokians , and that was that . |
| 11 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 12 | I 'd worked it out to the last breath . |
| 13 | The classy Irish defender can already picture the season building to a climax with Aston Villa and United slugging it out for the Championship . |
| 14 | ‘ I forgot to put it out for the birds yesterday morning . ’ |
| 15 | As you recall that successful scene , whenever something comes up that you enjoyed jot it down on the sheet entitled ‘ I would like more of this ! ’ |
| 16 | A group of men who had come with Leofnoth found a broached cask and began to drag it out of the rear of the wood , and Siward had three of them hanged . |
| 17 | Since Tixier-Vignancour did not actually have any questions to ask him he decided to bluff it out to the end . |
| 18 | My men saw that huge box on the water , and we decided to pull it along behind the ship . |
| 19 | I felt disillusioned , stale and cynical and I wanted to take a break before I started taking it out on the callers . |
| 20 | Her office was only ten minutes from Manchester Victoria , and Greg decided to step it out through the grey , grubby streets , in the foggy chill of a May evening . |
| 21 | If the letter had been burnt in the presence of all the members of the family immediately after being read , then the copy could only have been sent to him before they received it , by the person who went to pick it up from the rubbish skip . |
| 22 | I kept mixing it up with the florin , |
| 23 | Well when you collected the dues er it meant taking it up to the office every Monday and when you got up to the office and got talking to the officials and such like the interest became greater and er it developed from there that er the workers of thought they should have er should have a representative on the committee . |
| 24 | Thankfully there were no injuries and he and Ave Barlow managed to make it down to the best of the mountain safely . |
| 25 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
| 26 | They preferred to sit it out on the Fosse Way . |
| 27 | A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York . |
| 28 | When we finally did make it back to the ground , palpitating and soaked with sweat , there was no sign of Ranteallo , and much of the crowd had already dispersed on its way back to the Rante . |
| 29 | He drank when young and while still young drank a lot , challenging himself to knock off all comers , but most of all to align himself with the legendary drinking miners who could and did sweat it off down the pit while Richard had to force it off in games . |
| 30 | I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court . |