Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My readings in Zen , too , had shown me the folly of love , analysed it as an illusion among all the other illusions of this floating and temporary world , an emotion that by its very nature created suffering . |
| 2 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 3 | I picked it up after the election and modified it in the light of the amendments that we had tabled when we were in opposition . |
| 4 | Helen took a tape-measure out of her pocket and suspended it above the grave . |
| 5 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 6 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 7 | He prodded it with a toe . |
| 8 | She walked across the clearing and prodded it with the gun till it fell to the ground . |
| 9 | She twisted the comic into a tube on her lap and clenched it like a truncheon . |
| 10 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 11 | I never doubted it for a minute , Jane , never . |
| 12 | Although the public as a whole accepted that loyalist extremists had destroyed the Alliance Party headquarters , a number of local people , including some caught in the blast of the explosion , doubted it from the beginning . |
| 13 | She ranged it beside a dozen other pots and jars and bottles on her dressing-table and it looked well . |
| 14 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |
| 15 | He hooked it into the bunker on the left of the green . |
| 16 | The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April . |
| 17 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 18 | Perhaps then they heated it in an oven , or on a hot griddle ? ) |
| 19 | He Pronounced it in the way of Upper Egypt , dropping the " L " |
| 20 | ‘ He drew it with a piece of charcoal . |
| 21 | The man drew it to the attention of a companion and , together , they lifted the strut of wood clear . |
| 22 | Expansion plans and improved profits at textile group Albion helped it to a 24p rise to 75p . |
| 23 | The case of the chainmaking trade was particularly acute because of the large numbers of women who entered it during the late 1870s from nailmaking . |
| 24 | The bottom room , with Its two huge grinding-wheels of burr-granite propped against the wall and its lingering smell of flour , still held an air of mystery , of time held in abeyance , of a place bereft of its purpose and meaning , so that he never entered it without a slight sense of desolation . |
| 25 | When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers . |
| 26 | On the following day after the Christians had taken possession of the town , the Cid entered it with a great company , and he ascended the highest tower of the wall , and beheld all the city ; and the Moors came unto him , and kissed his hand , saying he was welcome . |
| 27 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 28 | He took it along to Stationers ' Hall on 2 November 1691 and entered it in the Stationers ' Register to establish copyright of a sort : |
| 29 | The whole company — all but for Colley the Mason — was ranged round the chapel when she banged shut the door and bolted it against the mob . |
| 30 | I kept the piece of paper and , after I returned home and thought more about the episode , I transformed it into a poem . |