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Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ?
3	Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’
4	But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ?
5	‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you .
6	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 .
7	‘ 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 .
8	you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips
9	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
10	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 .
11	He 'd also rigged it into the security systems as a precaution and was thus already rigid with dread when Roirbak communicated with him .
12	He 'd probably achieved it on a pleasant little trip to the Bahamas .
13	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 . ’
14	‘ Luckily it was n't a heart attack — I 'd simply overdone it in the gym . ’
15	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 .
16	But I 'd never done it to a policeman before .
17	The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place .
18	Kate pulled off her coat and turned away to hang it in the hall cupboard .
19	She bent and quickly swept the powder up again , then went outside to empty it into the dustbin .
20	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 .
21	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 .
22	Anyway , I did finally send it under a pen name — Ben MacLean — mostly to please you , ’ he said defensively .
23	We are now hearing that our outlook is so bad that we had better leave it to an independent central bank to decide the important aspects of our future .
24	Somebody had obviously left it in the cubicle .
25	Eliot had apparently declined it on the plea that it was Lent .
26	I had already discussed it with a fair proportion of them as individuals in the previous weeks .
27	Tavett grew annoyed when he realized she had already discussed it with the other two the previous evening as soon as she had been allowed to leave the police station .
28	He wielded it self-consciously , as though he had never owned one before and had just bought it in a Harrods sale .
29	He sort of bounced off the wall as if he was on a piece of elastic and someone had just yanked it from the other end .
30	Paige herself had gone into town to do some shopping and had scarcely made it to the front door when the sound of another car coming up the drive had made her turn .