Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 2 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 4 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 5 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |
| 6 | A return to Cornwall after seven years eventually opened the way to a conversion in which Bray 's family past reasserted itself against his recent deviations , and , without transforming his personality , reinforced it against the mental weaknesses to which his sister succumbed . |
| 7 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 8 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 9 | The company took the name of the new boss , who moved it into the structural market , building bridges , stations , hotels and even piers at Redcar , Bournemouth and Plymouth . |
| 10 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 11 | Phosphatidylethanolamine shifted most of the cholesterol to the vesicular phase while phosphatidylserine moved it to the non-vesicular fraction . |
| 12 | Again he made an early break and sustained it throughout the four-lap race . |
| 13 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 14 | McIllvanney was a Protestant bully from the Shankill Road in Belfast , who had learned his thuggery in the hard school of Northern Ireland 's prejudices , honed it in the British army , and now put it to whatever good use he wanted in the Bahamas . |
| 15 | ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line . |
| 16 | I never used it in the like people put it in the till . |
| 17 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 18 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 19 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 20 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 21 | But young Morton found it among the dead cases , all the same . ’ |
| 22 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 23 | ‘ I went for a net to get it out and , to my amazement , found it in the tight embrace of a frog . |
| 24 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 25 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |
| 26 | A contemporary writer from Lika compared it to the Mongol invasions and the depredations of the Goths and Attila the Hun . |
| 27 | North had already thrashed out a democratic manifesto for a unified opposition in Nicaragua , the leaders and himself scribbling it out in a cramped hotel room in Miami ; at the hearings , he proudly compared it to the sweaty wranglings in Philadelphia over the Constitution . |
| 28 | He waited for a moment while Mr Hellyer removed another paving stone and added it to the growing pile in the hedge . |
| 29 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 30 | Absently she twitched a fading tulip from its vase and dropped it into the waste-paper basket . |