Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Liam managed to get a word with her alone , she said the less fuss they made about it the sooner Nellie would get over it . |
| 2 | I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings . |
| 3 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 4 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 5 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 6 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 7 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 8 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 9 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 10 | Federal Treasurer Paul Keating retained his post and added to it the title of Deputy Prime Minister , thereby increasing speculation that he would succeed Hawke as Prime Minister [ see above ] . |
| 11 | When I came across it the other day , I was slightly embarrassed . |
| 12 | To counteract that feeling , and while he propped her ‘ injured ’ foot on a stool and attended to her bruising , she opened her bag and extracted from it the envelope with Cara had handed over to her . |
| 13 | From this awareness of individuation or , to use the Scotist term , haecceitas , came Hopkins 's overriding concern with ‘ inscape ’ in every aspect of the created world : the obsession with the ‘ selfhood ’ of every object or being , at the same time that he perceived behind it the generically divine . |
| 14 | And the more they talked about it the more they decided that it was . |
| 15 | I know , nor do I but the more you talked about it the more she 'll do it . |
| 16 | the more I worked on it the more it began to evolve into another kind of idea and the more removed it became from my initial study which had so much freedom and energy , so I stopped . |
| 17 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 18 | I began to see that you might have a grain of truth lurking there somewhere , and the more I thought about it the more it made sense . |
| 19 | About the homework bit er I thought about it the other day and obviously mine was n't brought up we 're having a set detention night are n't we ? |
| 20 | And the more she thought about it the more she felt certain that her instinctive deduction had been right . |
| 21 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 22 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 23 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 24 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 25 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 26 | The more he thought of it the more he was inclined to the idea that the murderer lacked any single , clearly defined motive . |
| 27 | I pierced the mask of the temporal that is a facade made hideous by the graffiti of desires and I saw behind it the real of human beings , that is , a masterpiece on the wheel of Eternity . |
| 28 | Official sympathy did not extend to pressure for constitutional change : ‘ enlightened ’ bureaucrats interpreted such pressure as the work of reactionary oligarchs , while most conservative officials saw behind it the machinations of radical members of the intelligentsia challenging the entire social structure . |
| 29 | The more I looked into it the more the paintings seemed to go beyond simple unitary ideas of authorship and meaning . |
| 30 | It not only dared to enter the domain of philosophy by offering a critique of epistemology but also brought with it the heresy of relativism . |