Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Dutifully she and Luke followed Anna and Sam through the house ; they discovered that they had both visited it several times in the past .
2 They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute .
3 Cuckney has never found it difficult switching from the public to the private sector , or vice versa .
4 ‘ Opinion polls may or may not turn out to be right at a later stage ’ ; ‘ Local authorities exceeded projected expenditure by quite a margin ’ ; ‘ When this campaign started some weeks ago ’ ; ‘ I concede the point , for I have stated it many times in the past . ’
5 On June 18 , the Supreme Soviet finally adopted the state budget for 1992 , which had been prepared with IMF and World Bank advice , having returned it four times to the budgetary commission for redrafting .
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