Example sentences of "[vb past] it [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He first used it to wipe some of the filth from the priest , then lifted the sponge to Rafferty 's mouth , forcing it in . |
| 2 | It certainly is n't a new invention : Turner used it to produce some of his finest watercolour paintings in the 1880s . |
| 3 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 4 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 5 | On the question of whether the locomotive would be available to complete the double 8F' Cumbrian Mountain Express at the end of October , Mr Draper advised that the locomotive would be available if BR required it to complete this roster . |
| 6 | For Herbert and his fellow Arminians , therefore , the ‘ mean ’ way of English Protestantism was its ‘ praise and glory ’ , which enabled it to avoid all the worst excesses of its rivals . |
| 7 | You told me to throw it away before but I kept it to put that other mug in it . |
| 8 | The set was so tacky she expected it to collapse each time one of the characters came through the door . |
| 9 | ’ We did it to give some of the great youngsters a chance ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Unless you did it to gain some advantage , of course . ’ |
| 11 | I only did it to impress that lot . |
| 12 | They just , they just did it to raise some funds , I ca n't remember why they did it . |
| 13 | I got undressed and , after my usual battle with the crumbling Ascot in the bathroom , forced it to yield enough hot water for a miserly bath . |
| 14 | When it failed to attract substantial readers , it faced a financial crisis which forced it to curtail some of its journalistic efforts . |
| 15 | She really only said it to annoy these old friends of her mother 's . |
| 16 | The 1988 Criminal Justice Act extended it to cover all crimes where a few thousand pounds are involved . |
| 17 | He does n't think Joe wanted it to end that way . |
| 18 | He wanted it to work more than any of us . ’ |