Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 2 | John described it to many interviewers as if the free lessons were a concession in return for taking part in performances , but it would be more realistic to regard the performances by the University of Cape Town Ballet as a valuable part of his ballet education . |
| 3 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 4 | Jesus has brought a unique new way of life into the world ; St John described it in those first verses of his gospel : |
| 5 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 6 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 7 | Wexford grasped it in both his hands , raised it high and brought it down hard to meet the empty air . |
| 8 | I seen it before that one . |
| 9 | Those patients with a good postoperative result ‘ maintained it for many years , gained occupationally and vocationally , were pleased with the results of the operation , and were willing to recommend it to others ’ . |
| 10 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 11 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 12 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 13 | The reason we built it on this particular spot is this is the ash flurry from the boilers from the bottom there of the er power station and er it 's contents of slurry dried out , dried out and graded , well once nice and flat like this it gives the bird an ideal opportunity to at high tide and they can see around , there 's no vegetation , it 's very bad ground , and er , that is load of ducks , a good numbers of er oystercatchers , they do n't sometimes , which is really nice and so easy to count them now cos when the tide is out and you 've got the , the mud flats of course they 're spread out , now they 're nicely condensed down here , so it 's great , great little position for us you know , that 's all courtesy of the bottom of the boiler , you know , you know , give us this nice |
| 14 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 15 | Only 13% ( 26 ) spoke to their spouse about it , and fewer than 10% mentioned it to another family member or friend . |
| 16 | He mentioned it to several of his male colleagues . |
| 17 | But it stopped it like that , it was only just smouldering you know . |
| 18 | Not all approached it with such seriousness . |
| 19 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Next time I was doing a partial water change , I decided to investigate further , and took the piece of coral , complete with mushroom polyps , out of the tank , and working quickly to avoid damaging the polyps , cracked it in half with a cold chisel . |
| 21 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
| 22 | But then I got the ES295 and I used it through most of the Sun sessions . |
| 23 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 24 | It was what , I used today , they used it in all hospitals . |
| 25 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 26 | Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors , but oh dear ! |
| 27 | I found it under this |
| 28 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 29 | ‘ Changed it for another , did n't I ? ’ |
| 30 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |