Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 2 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 3 | Loyalty to the group 's famous brands helped it to boost pretax profits by 13.2pc last year to £316.4m from £279.6m in 1990 , although sales grew by just 2.7pc . |
| 4 | As it turned out , Kurt Stengel who designed it worked day and night to get the image just right . |
| 5 | During the second half of the decade , however , this perception began to be challenged by commentary that pointed out controlled , intellectual qualities in her work and , thus , described it using terms traditionally applied to the art of men . |
| 6 | Airport operator BAA reported it handled 6.8m passengers at its seven airports in May , 1993 2.9pc increase on the May , 1992 figure . |
| 7 | The hound grunted with pain and he let it fall limp at his feet , a small dark trickle of blood flowing from one nostril . |
| 8 | As they dismounted it crossed Floy 's mind that the longer they could delay , the better chance Fenella and Caspar had of catching them up . |
| 9 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 10 | ‘ We used it to heal sword cuts in the Holy Land , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 12 | This really means relationship by marriage , but naturalists used it to mean family relationship , recognizing that horses and donkeys were closely related even though they denied any actual evolutionary connections . |
| 13 | When he closed the account , he transferred this to another account and used it to pay chambers ' expenses . |
| 14 | He wrote out cheques from the account to pay his credit card debts , rent arrears and he also used it to clear phone bills and part of £500 taxi bill . |
| 15 | VARI is not a new process — Lotus first used it to make Elite bodies in 1974 . |
| 16 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 17 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 18 | When she received a gift from the Queensland corps back in Australia she used it to help Simon . |
| 19 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 20 | British brewers do not have to declare the ingredients they use but when American consumers ran a check of Miller Lite they found it contained corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 21 | She chewed hers and found it contained cod liver oil . |
| 22 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 23 | But I found it collected dust in a corner . |
| 24 | If she found it stretching credulity that a meeting between them was n't inevitable she 'd always fiercely denied to herself that she had any interest in seeing him again , so why should she be feeling so shivery and hot , almost as if she had a fever ? |
| 25 | Did the chap who copped it have family ? ’ |
| 26 | In my gybe , it seemed that by pulling up on the boom I was committing a lot of weight to the back which , although turning the board initially , caused it to lose speed through the turn . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , as Means and Smith point out , the NFOAPA 's concentration on pensions issues caused it to ignore inadequacies in medical and social provision whilst ‘ its campaigning style was unlikely to have been appreciated ’ within the corridors of power . |
| 28 | They obtained it using observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE ) satellite . |
| 29 | I borrowed , I borrowed it to watch EastEnders last night . |
| 30 | Protesters claimed it promoted child molestation . |