Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 2 | When eventually its report , Lead and Health , was published in 1980 , various environmental groups damned it for being too meek . |
| 3 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 4 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 5 | Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar , and the big catamaran lifted smoothly . |
| 6 | I think Mum made it for me . |
| 7 | Le Gall translated it by forme , thus by the choice of two words remoulding the whole Neo-Confucian cosmology after the analogy of Aristotelian form and matter . |
| 8 | Linium Got it from down the chemist . |
| 9 | Well my mum got it for |
| 10 | So your mum got it from er Spectrum . |
| 11 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 12 | King believed that Kandyans regarded it as ‘ an act of daring , largely partaking the character of a dangerous field sport ’ . |
| 13 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 14 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 15 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 16 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 17 | Relieved Rangers manager Walter Smith knew it would need something special to break Marseille 's French resistance , and McSwegan provided it by finishing off a superb move started by Ian Durrant . |
| 18 | When the AV was being discussed in the House of Commons in 1931 Winston Churchill described it as " the worst of all possible plans , the least scientific and the most unreal . |
| 19 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 20 | The radical William Cobbett described it as a ‘ poor man 's robbery bill ’ , designed to reduce the standards of the labouring poor . |
| 21 | Jim described it as a ‘ user friendly ’ locomotive , it is possible to keep on using the machine continuously without having to take it out of service for maintenance . |
| 22 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 23 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 24 | This particular guitar is a bit of a video star ; Dave Stewart used it in the promo for The Eurythmics ' The City Never Sleeps . |
| 25 | Postine subdued it with a single blow to its long wrinkled neck . |
| 26 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 27 | Ten years later , the Sizewell B PWR was said to promise a bargain in power generation compared with a coal-fired alternative : in 1985 , leading CEGB executive John Baker described it as ‘ a clear winner ’ over coal . |
| 28 | The band 's chief songwriters Calum and Rory Macdonald described it as their most outstanding to date . |
| 29 | The See Hear programme publicised it on television . |
| 30 | After starting out with a Honda VF500 in ‘ 84 , Bradl made it to factory rider in just four and a half years , making a name for himself on the way as a man bursting with aggression . |