Example sentences of "we [vb past] it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end .
2 We made it into the hall , which was actually less crowded , though still full .
3 We made it to the car .
4 We made it to the Pastukhov rocks without a break and steered left where the slope steepened considerably .
5 By the time we made it to the foyer , a panic had started .
6 But we were gon na do it erm , cos we got it on the Tamworth Heralds .
7 Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there .
8 We used it on the ship , to keep the chickens ' food in .
9 We found it on the ice outside the North Bastion tower , yet you said you were in the city all night . ’
10 We found it on the back .
11 we found it among the hollyhocks , a new life
12 He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning .
13 We approached it on the basis of er , collecting information on the Children in Need definition which a , er , a paper came before you when the Children 's Act was implemented , and that gives local discretion to authorities to , to define Children in need .
14 ‘ Well , we played it during the interval at school when I was a little boy .
15 Erm , dum , dum , the market stall as you know , we did n't have it in the market , we had it on the thank goodness because we parked it in the shade , erm during that period we got five hundred and thirty two signatures , with three or four more of you it could of been a thousand , erm we also got fourteen pounds , seventeen in donations , all completely unasked for cos as you know , we do n't take money .
16 and if we paid it before the end of January
17 Mrs Taylor gave Frankie and me a piece of bread pudding each but we did n't like the smell of it so we threw it over the wall on the way back to our house .
18 ‘ And all we shall have to do is to stick together and confess that this dreadful accident did happen a little bit earlier and we all felt devastated but there was a full house and we all felt we owed it to the public that the show should go on .
19 We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body .
20 The story has n't changed since we heard it on the radio .
21 And erm we collected a whole lot of colour glass and we stuck it on the window and it 's a stain glass window y know ?
22 Not even if we squashed it into the cassette case .
23 That 's how we covered it at the N E C.
24 We watched it on the Friday , did n't you ?
25 We watched it from the guard-room .
26 We placed it by the spot were she went in and out , and every day I moved her food nearer to the cage until , eventually , she had to go right in to eat .
27 ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’
28 ‘ So we kept it in the family , ’ he said .
29 For reaction to the new car , we took it to the MG Car Club 's headquarters on the site of the old factory in Abingdon .
30 Remember this booklet , some of the longer attending members of the G M B will do , we debated it in the conference of the old G M B five years ago .
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