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Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	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 .
3	It was due in tomorrow and he planned to write it tonight .
4	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 .
5	I almost expected to find it so . ’
6	I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there .
7	The crew tried to drive it away , and one man fired a rifle at it .
8	It is worth recalling that even at the height of Britain 's imperial power we rarely tried to go it alone .
9	My right hon. Friend the Chancellor would be much more constrained in his fiscal and monetary policies if Britain tried to go it alone .
10	With her eyes still crossed , she stuck her tongue out and tried to curl it upwards .
11	She rubbed her eye , and tried to open it again .
12	A skylight above the street door was closed and out of reach , but I tried to reach it anyway and was surprised when my fingers touched the ledge .
13	He stopped to wipe it away , then sighted again .
14	Three months ago I purchased a Waterlife Nitrate Test kit from my local water garden centre and when I tried to use it consistently got a zero reading .
15	I think we tried to use it once , and it was like a comedy show , it was crazy .
16	Well , if they really tried to do it again and they failed , there 's not much else that we could ask them to do is there ?
17	I tried to do it really well because it was my last grade .
18	He tried to do it now , but she dodged back into a corner .
19	If I tried to give it more than one one word at a time it falls over and core dumps .
20	He tried to read it again , upside down , but the Captain picked it up , murmuring as he glanced through it : ‘ It 's obvious from the way you sit .
21	But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start .
22	‘ I do n't really understand all this Italian , ’ said Kaler , who played a paranoid John Paul II , as he tried to decipher it afterwards .
23	I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it .
24	Snow piled against it , threatening to destroy it , but this helped to protect it eventually as the snow wall hardened and compacted .
25	Although heaven knows we tried to keep it there .
26	We tried to keep it as logical as possible and er , there you have it .
27	Er , there 's a suggestion that he had mild epilepsy , and they tried to keep it quite , and his father tutored him at home .
28	Although society as a whole was very far from accepting the extremes of revolutionary order and , of course , most of Europe , Britain above all , had fought for years to suppress it , the painfulness of the Church 's early experience of the Revolution helped to keep it profoundly opposed even to the Revolution 's more moderate implications , ones increasingly accepted by European society as a whole .
29	In despair , I scrambled all the way down to the gully that falls directly from the col and tried to climb it quickly before the sun got up .
30	He reached up for the handle , grasped it , tried to turn it once , failed , tried again and this time dropped face down over the threshold as the door swung open .