Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They never actually moved in and they promised it to Daddy . |
| 3 | To back up the credibility of the technology , the companies also demonstrated it in operation at the InterOp show in Washington . |
| 4 | ‘ Then when Omicron upgraded it to multiuser , so did Nabb , ’ says the European financial director Barry Westbrook . |
| 5 | ‘ The itinerary , ’ Mary Ann pronounced it with care . |
| 6 | She pronounced it like Doktor with a ‘ k ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ There was a scholarship going at one of the drama schools , you see , and I entered it on impulse . |
| 8 | She went past Bart 's Hospital and entered it by way of Barley Mow passage on the west . |
| 9 | ‘ Brendan designed it for hop pellets but I only use whole hops . ’ |
| 10 | 81 , 82–83 described it as coercion : |
| 11 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 12 | Katherine visited the ‘ very jolly ’ new flat and described it in detail : |
| 13 | Sir John Mandeville , fourteenth-century English traveller and writer , described it in detail : |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Elia Kazan kept the cameras rolling and caught it for posterity . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She knew only that suddenly her hand was upraised , that his shot out with lightning speed and caught it in mid-air . |
| 18 | Rose dropped the stone but caught it in time . |
| 19 | She caught it in time , and had them dwindle a little . |
| 20 | We caught it in time . |
| 21 | She commanded Rune 's gaze briefly and dismissed it with disdain . |
| 22 | It was instrumental in bringing the young Niki Lauda into the public eye when he dismissed it as rubbish after a handful of laps . |
| 23 | It flooded his head , charged it with recklessness and brought — he could feel it happening — a warm flush to his face . |
| 24 | But he settled for the blackjack , and charged it to Visa . |
| 25 | Rindt then crashed it in practice for the Canadian race and flatly refused to drive it again . |
| 26 | Michael and Edward placed one of the flat pieces of steel at one end and Tom and Mr Fletcher fixed it into place . |
| 27 | Just as physics and chemistry helped to modernize biology and moved it to centre stage during the past thirty years , I believe that biology is about to augment the social sciences greatly and move them to centre stage . |
| 28 | AN EVEN more unlikely winner , Neighbours was bought in from Australia and only took off when Michael Grade moved it from lunch hour to teatime because his daughter , Alison , asked him to . |
| 29 | He retained it beyond courtesy . |
| 30 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |