Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 2 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 3 | But as she reached for it , tried to bring it into sharper focus , it was gone . |
| 4 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 5 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 6 | We forgot to put it in last night anyway . |
| 7 | Because of his inexperience and the firing of the two previous directors , he asked to do it under another name , not wanting to take the rap for a flop . |
| 8 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 9 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 10 | On Sept. 25 Bush called the new bill " a bunch of garbage " and threatened to veto it on budgetary grounds . |
| 11 | Charles decided to play it for light comedy . |
| 12 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 13 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 14 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 15 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 16 | He managed to grab it with both hands as the force of the water , aided by his frantic struggles , propelled him into the yawning mouth of the tunnel . |
| 17 | He waded through it with a non-stop grin and managed to turn it to political advantage . |
| 18 | We felt that Navan Resources should have made earlier contact with us to let us know that there was gold here , before we had to hear it in that way , ’ Mary Catherine Heanue said . |
| 19 | and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet |
| 20 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 21 | It is a quite deliberate attempt to depaganise the site by someone who wished to use it for other functions . |
| 22 | And the mothers had to do it in those days , half a crown to do all the washing for this woman . |
| 23 | They could purchase land from owners who refused to sell for development or from builders who wished to retain it for future development . |
| 24 | Local militia had to protect it against enthusiastic souvenir hunters . |
| 25 | Aunt Margaret poured fresh tea from a brown earthenware , Sunday-school treat pot that was so heavy she had to lift it with both hands . |
| 26 | aha , well I 'm , I 'm doing er couple of Oxos and I had to thicken it with some self raising flour , it was alright |
| 27 | And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory . |
| 28 | The metal-winged VH-BAF joined the Airworld Collection in 1988 , who continued to maintain it in airworthy condition . |
| 29 | People had to have all this sex , she knew that ; they had to have it with surprising people and in sometimes surprising ways . |
| 30 | He had to explain it to this man . |