Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 2 | In Lethbridge v. Phillips , L , a celebrated miniature painter , lent a miniature to B who wished to show it to the defendant . |
| 3 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 4 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 5 | Gilbert Scott had said that it was ‘ on the whole , my finest church ’ , but Colonel Akroyd , who had built it as the centrepiece of his remarkable village of Akroyd , had never sufficiently endowed it . |
| 6 | Clara often thought that Mrs Maugham 's attitudes towards the television typified her whole moral outlook ; before acquiring it , she had considered it infinitely vulgar and debased ; after acquiring it she considered all those without it as highbrows , intellectual snobs , or paupers , while still managing to retain her scorn for all those who had had it before the precisely tasteful , worthy and perceptive moment at which she had herself succumbed to its charms . |
| 7 | Captain Kinloch had inherited the estate of Kinloch in Strathmore from his younger brother , John , who had purchased it from the proceeds of a fortune made as a sugar planter in Jamaica , and had died in 1770 . |
| 8 | When these were matched and pairs of hearing signers were established , only eight pairs were found in our data where people acquiring sign before the age of 25 years had similar experience to those who had acquired it after the age of 30 years . |
| 9 | And oh , we loved the intimacy of having them so close , close enough that when I rode my bicycle for ‘ Committee ’ through the ‘ vomitarium ’ separating one wedge of audience from the next I was able to steady myself by grasping the leg of a gentleman who had stretched it over the side . |
| 10 | But nearly half of those who had used it in the past , though not using it currently , rated it as never good . |
| 11 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |
| 12 | The same afternoon , my departed heterosexual colleague , who had bought it , and who had shown it at the conference , was on the phone : would I change my mind ? |
| 13 | By the early 1930s , it was in the hands of John Henry Lawrence , who continued to work it until the mid-1950s . |
| 14 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |