Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been ‘ much pleased ’ with the suggestion , ‘ but was deterr 'd from improving it by the greatness of the subject … |
| 2 | especially when it came to humping it into the van the A L O was nowhere to be found . |
| 3 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |
| 4 | A BUGATTI motor boat found resting in mud in France is to be flown to its wealthy owner in California next month , 10 years after work began on restoring it at a Thames boatyard . |
| 5 | When they returned to Cochinchina the French began by treating it as a restored colony and with Cedile , the French Commissioner in the South , and Moutet in Paris both anticipating , or frustrating , the results of the promised referendum there were increasing prospects that it would be retained for French economic interests in the form of a nominally autonomous government . |
| 6 | He renegotiated the agreement over tunnel usage by the railways and succeeded in presenting it as a breakthrough . |
| 7 | When the US President , Eisenhower , visited Madrid on 21 December 1959 , Franco persisted in interpreting it as a sign of recognition of his rightness , not as an indication that times were changing and he would have to move with them or be left behind . |
| 8 | He had , in effect , stumbled without recognizing it into a major new area of understanding of the chemistry of brain function . |
| 9 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 10 | I thought about posting it to the club as my sign of protest . |
| 11 | She felt like throwing it across the room but managed to control herself . |
| 12 | He insisted on tackling it with a knife and fork . |