Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 3 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 4 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 5 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 6 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 7 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 8 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 9 | In the final minutes of the spacecraft 's descent , Soviet ground controllers tried to guide it towards the ocean but lacked the necessary fuel . |
| 10 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 11 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 12 | McFarlane , who in his more sober Methodist way felt much the same , tried to explain it at the hearings . |
| 13 | Charles tried to make it down the stairs with his eyes closed to allay the pain . |
| 14 | Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion . |
| 15 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 16 | She got the reel of film through customs without any trouble , and a man came to collect it at the hotel . |
| 17 | It is common to find gaps when nothing is recorded , blank spaces where the minister has forgotten a name when he came to register it after the event , repetitions , erasures and insertions . |
| 18 | Heritage groups had feared it would leave the country after the Tate Gallery failed to buy it before the sale . |
| 19 | I forgot to play it with the tune right though . |
| 20 | The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay . |
| 21 | The obvious thing to do is raise income tax , but the Government pledged to reduce it in the election manifesto — just after the commitment to the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) . |
| 22 | When Maastricht was agreed 11 months ago , all countries pledged to ratify it before the end of this year . |
| 23 | They always forgot to send it with the papers . |
| 24 | 13–1–1906 They had under consideration the question of using the Hymnary in the public worship and agreed to use it in the summer if there was no serious collection among the people . |
| 25 | We see , for example , his debt to Hobbes , who placed great emphasis on the idea of authority and sought to detach it from the idea of consent . |
| 26 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 27 | For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air . |
| 28 | Bragg rubbed the tobacco lovingly between his palms , then began to feed it into the bowl of his pipe . |
| 29 | Leo carried the pile of crockery into the kitchen and began to load it into the dishwasher . |
| 30 | Gazzer grabbed the wheelchair and began to push it along the paths in between the flower-beds . |