Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Alright , what you did n't see , and I 've talked to the man who made the video , and he tells me that in fact — as played in slow motion , it does definitely show that Martin Foyle as the ball was going goalward , got the final touch to the ball and did put it into the net , no doubt that in fact it was Foyle 's goal . |
| 32 | Almost operating on remote control he removed it , looked at it , and remembered finding it on the mat in that other house in that other life-time . |
| 33 | MARGARET Forster completed what she thought was the final draft of her biography of Daphne du Maurier in April 1992 and had dispatched it to the publisher . |
| 34 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 35 | Prince Philip had stipulated a maximum of ten years for his period in office , and had extended it by a year to enable Prince Charles , who was serving in the Royal Navy , to take over at an appropriate moment . |
| 36 | the plaintiff had ‘ purchased ’ a car from a person who had no title to it and had sent it to a garage for repair . |
| 37 | He had carried the gold on his back in many journeys , and had taken it to a cave on the north-east corner of the island , two months before the Hispaniola arrived . |
| 38 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 39 | Commander Abigail was not a heavy drinker , but after his gloomy morning walk he had felt the need of consolation and had found it in the Disraeli Lounge of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 40 | Within a year of his appointment he had managed to sever the College from the Ministry of Education and had established it as an independent foundation with its own College Council . |
| 41 | Again , on the flight home from Melbourne at the end of their Australian tour in 1985 , Charles hand-wrote a long and frank letter about his thoughts on a wide range of issues , including the Greater London Council — a politically explosive subject — — and had entrusted it to the common mail , without apparently thinking it unwise . |
| 42 | One aircraft dropped its torpedo outside the Harbour and attempted to run it through the Harbour entrance , the fifth aircraft , unable to locate its target , returned to base with its torpedo , and the sixth aircraft , piloted by P/O Atherton , must also have turned away and retired seaward . |
| 43 | Applicants were given cash grants , usually no more than £75 , and trusted to use it for the purpose they had proposed - such as buying a bicycle to do a newspaper round , obtaining equipment for a camping trip , or acquiring the wherewithal to learn a new skill or a sport . |