Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | He said that if either the Conservatives or Labour sought to go it alone as a minority Government they risked an economic crisis and rising interest rates . |
| 3 | He kept pulling on the stick , then swung away and made to carry it off . |
| 4 | It was released in space on Oct. 19 to begin a six-year 2,500-million-mile voyage to study the planet Jupiter , on a gravitationally assisted trajectory planned to swing it once past the planet Venus and twice around the Earth . |
| 5 | It was due in tomorrow and he planned to write it tonight . |
| 6 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 7 | Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council . |
| 8 | While I was testing the Seayak on the west coast of Ireland I failed to pull it far enough up the beach on the night of a rising spring tide . |
| 9 | I suppose it is out of the question that one of our own police stations might have received such a notification , and failed to pass it on ? ’ |
| 10 | I almost expected to find it so . ’ |
| 11 | We chanced to find it out . ’ |
| 12 | But faced with the sound of the word , and asked to write it down , the possibilities multiply so that instead of half a dozen there are now somewhere round one hundred and fifty variants possible . |
| 13 | I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there . |
| 14 | Four times people at higher levels tried to kill it off , and four times the people working on it came back and fought for it , argued for it , provided justification and evidence for why it should continue : ‘ Just give us a little more time ; we know we can make it work . ’ |
| 15 | The crew tried to drive it away , and one man fired a rifle at it . |
| 16 | He blustered and turned scarlet as if caught out in a crime , and tried to bluff it out , but I knew him too well . |
| 17 | It is worth recalling that even at the height of Britain 's imperial power we rarely tried to go it alone . |
| 18 | My right hon. Friend the Chancellor would be much more constrained in his fiscal and monetary policies if Britain tried to go it alone . |
| 19 | Nell Anderson stopped , treading water as she tried to work it out . |
| 20 | We tried to work it out . |
| 21 | Rincewind tried to work it out , and decided that even if the box were crammed with star opals and sticks of auricholatum the contents would not be worth one-tenth the price of the container . |
| 22 | so those houses were all sandbagged , but it , it got into some , the problem was that the , the road closed sign kept blowing down in the wind , I tried to stand it up but it was oh so heavy , I got it up , but it , it immediately blew down again , and |
| 23 | With her eyes still crossed , she stuck her tongue out and tried to curl it upwards . |
| 24 | Huw felt an unaccustomed tremor of fear , and tried to shake it off . |
| 25 | She tried to shake it off . |
| 26 | Finding she could n't push the pram up the slope , she thought for a few seconds and then tried to pull it up . |
| 27 | tried to pull it out , it wo n't come out , there 's a bracket on it , on the back |
| 28 | Being of only flimsy material and fitting tightly round Angela 's body , it had burst in two places when she fell , and when Mummy tried to pull it off , it tore again . |
| 29 | With a strangled gasp of fury she tried to pull it off , but he held both her hands , preventing her . |
| 30 | He tried to pass it off . |