Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mountain goat 's ancestry , as a member of the Bovid family , gave it a good start : it gave the animal the means of subsisting on the poor mountain vegetation , and it provided it with feet that could be adapted to moving around in the precipitous terrain . |
| 2 | He took a chestnut from the pan and bounced it from hand to hand as he turned cheerily to enquire after Mrs Frere 's welfare . |
| 3 | They never actually moved in and they promised it to Daddy . |
| 4 | To back up the credibility of the technology , the companies also demonstrated it in operation at the InterOp show in Washington . |
| 5 | ‘ Then when Omicron upgraded it to multiuser , so did Nabb , ’ says the European financial director Barry Westbrook . |
| 6 | ‘ The itinerary , ’ Mary Ann pronounced it with care . |
| 7 | She pronounced it like Doktor with a ‘ k ’ . |
| 8 | Fawcett says that he had noticed scraps of similar material in earlier test runs on the apparatus , but this was the first time that he drew it to Gibson 's attention . |
| 9 | ‘ There was a scholarship going at one of the drama schools , you see , and I entered it on impulse . |
| 10 | She went past Bart 's Hospital and entered it by way of Barley Mow passage on the west . |
| 11 | The modernization of the Meadowell estate , which transformed it from flats to terraced houses and dramatically reduced the density of occupation , was a consequence of the availability of central government assistance intended to stimulate employment opportunities in the construction industry as a corrective to general problems of unemployment in the early 1970s . |
| 12 | ‘ Brendan designed it for hop pellets but I only use whole hops . ’ |
| 13 | IBM is still selling more machines than anyone else , but for the first time Compaq overtook it in terms of revenue . |
| 14 | 81 , 82–83 described it as coercion : |
| 15 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 16 | Young described it at Warrington , Gloucester and Bristol . |
| 17 | Together they form the best picture of their love as Edward described it to Harry before his life at Lincoln began : ‘ For some reason or another we are happier now than ever before . |
| 18 | ‘ One of the great moments of my life till now , ’ was how Charles described it to Clarissa on the telephone later . |
| 19 | This theory holds that , although human society originated as Freud described it in Totem and Taboo , subsequent social evolution led to repetitions and expansion of that primal trauma which , although on a smaller scale than the original one , nevertheless share something of its traumatic nature and crucial consequences — particularly for the subsequent evolution of the superego . |
| 20 | Katherine visited the ‘ very jolly ’ new flat and described it in detail : |
| 21 | Sir John Mandeville , fourteenth-century English traveller and writer , described it in detail : |
| 22 | Yet what is interesting is that , when a query was raised as to the meaning and effect of subsection ( 2 ) , in the context of the liability of journalists to search and interrogation , the Minister of State described it in terms which are consistent only with its having been inserted to cover the case of a holder who himself was a party to the criminal purpose . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |
| 24 | Two hundred thousand folk caught it at Silverstone yesterday … it 's being spread on radio and television even comes through the letterbox with the morning papers … |
| 25 | Caught it off Amy . |
| 26 | Elia Kazan kept the cameras rolling and caught it for posterity . |
| 27 | His soldiers caught it outside Naples and , when their balls began to drop off , he retreated . |
| 28 | On his way he spotted a large black beetle on the stairs ; he caught it between finger and thumb and took it out with him to the ramparts . |
| 29 | She knew only that suddenly her hand was upraised , that his shot out with lightning speed and caught it in mid-air . |
| 30 | Rose dropped the stone but caught it in time . |