Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once their canvasses showed majority support for the proposal , they moved quickly to bring it to a vote , thereby avoiding the public debate which had accompanied past efforts at prohibiting honoraria . |
| 2 | Two men swam out to guide it towards a moored boat . |
| 3 | We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ? |
| 4 | Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’ |
| 5 | But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ? |
| 6 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 7 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 8 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 9 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 10 | I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that |
| 11 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |
| 12 | He 'd also rigged it into the security systems as a precaution and was thus already rigid with dread when Roirbak communicated with him . |
| 13 | He 'd probably achieved it on a pleasant little trip to the Bahamas . |
| 14 | It was my first 6-day race and I came here to enjoy it with no plan or target , so I 'm very happy to have had such a successful run . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Luckily it was n't a heart attack — I 'd simply overdone it in the gym . ’ |
| 16 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 17 | But I 'd never done it to a policeman before . |
| 18 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 19 | Kate pulled off her coat and turned away to hang it in the hall cupboard . |
| 20 | ( Amazing how quickly BR abandoned its scheme to close Marylebone when a scheme popped up to turn it into a kind of Victoria Coach Station for northern routes ! ) |
| 21 | He went on pressing it until the starter engine ground to a halt . |
| 22 | She bent and quickly swept the powder up again , then went outside to empty it into the dustbin . |
| 23 | He did n't pull his weight , but knew how to keep it from the consultants . |
| 24 | She seemed to be having trouble putting one in front of the other but she did eventually make it to the steps of the disabled bus and fell inside . |
| 25 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
| 26 | The sort of people who wanted a house that size these days did not want it in the high street of a market town , and this young woman surely would not have the income to keep it up . |
| 27 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 28 | To know he had considered her ‘ special ’ was satisfying , but she did not regard it as a signal to fall headlong into his arms . |
| 29 | Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production . |
| 30 | Many of the delegates were later to become officers , and although Eva did not realise it at the time people in high places were again taking note of her presence . |