Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rubbed it on each other , rather . |
| 2 | Attendance , indeed , would not have cost Britain anything or compromised it in any way , since unlike the meeting called to consider the ECSC , participants at Messina were not required to accept the principle of supranationalism in advance . |
| 3 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 4 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 5 | The Gardeners ' Chronicle , reviewing the experiment , coined the name ‘ carpet bedding ’ for it , and recommended it for wider trial . |
| 6 | He particularly admired the beautiful white spikes of Itea and recommended it for late flowering , a quality which also applied to Clethra alnifolia . |
| 7 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 8 | Then he built a double-skinned oak door and studded it with fat-headed iron nails from the nearby , long defunct Presteigne nail-making machine . |
| 9 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 10 | clenched , Benny lifted her foot above the instruments and lowered it with extreme care towards the handle of the scalpel . |
| 11 | An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds . |
| 12 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 13 | In its February session , the European Parliament gave a second reading to the Directive on the Restitution of Cultural Goods and passed it without further amendments . |
| 14 | It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George . |
| 15 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
| 16 | Lord Hailsham , however , used twentieth century reasoning and applied it to nineteenth century cases . |
| 17 | He stirred a pot of paint , dipped a brush in the paint , bent forward and applied it in slow strokes to the sheet of card in front of him . |
| 18 | This group were aware of the injury and described it in neutral terms of sensation . |
| 19 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 20 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |
| 21 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 22 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 23 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 24 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 25 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 26 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |
| 27 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 28 | I have pricked my first blister , squeezed out the fluid , and dabbed it with surgical spirit . |
| 29 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 30 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |