Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 3 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 4 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 5 | But he was clearly relieved when I agreed to accept it at his hands . |
| 6 | ‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd . |
| 7 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 8 | By the same token , Edwin told me that Gifford stopped using it after his stroke . ’ |
| 9 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 10 | And whatever it was , Slorne now tried to communicate it to Creggan . |
| 11 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 12 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 13 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 14 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 15 | Jesus , it was awful , and the worst thing about it was , when we arrived the baby was still warm , so we tried to revive it with mouth to mouth . |
| 16 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 17 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 18 | When they tried to set it by setting and him out |
| 19 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 20 | I tried to sell it to Ian |
| 21 | She tried to feed it with a little warm milk , but there was no swallowing response . |
| 22 | Although the Lancastrian and Yorkist monarchs occasionally tried to replace it with taxes assessed directly on individual incomes , resistance proved too strong , and the fifteenth and tenth still held its own in 1485 as the established form of parliamentary taxation . |
| 23 | He tried to leaven it with a minor joke . |
| 24 | I tried to load it into erm Word and it completely screwed up . |
| 25 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 26 | Although Kennedy increased the size of US forces in Germany there was nothing he could do to bring the Berlin Wall down , or to stop those who tried to cross it from being shot . |
| 27 | He pulled the duvet off the bed and tried to wrap it round her , but she reacted violently , as if he was trying to suffocate her . |
| 28 | His hair had grown ; he tried to comb it with his fingers . |
| 29 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 30 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |