Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only took it in social situations . |
| 2 | The diocese had found him a housekeeper , a Miss Lambe , who was as small and anxious as a hamster , and who had taken a tiny , remote bedroom as her burrow , and already filled it with crocheted mats and pictures of the Royal Family . |
| 3 | An attempt was also made to take the vacuum pump body , but its weight and bulk seemed to defeat the thief , who nevertheless hid it in nearby bushes . |
| 4 | and just stuck it in little boxes , like little boxes and |
| 5 | If people genuinely wanted social change from the educational system ( and they did ) , they generally wanted it in familiar guise . |
| 6 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
| 7 | Apart from the symphonies , Mozart 's compositions of 1788 include the Piano Concerto in C , K.503 , written in February ( it is not known if Mozart ever played it in public ) ; several new numbers for the Vienna première of Don Giovanni in May ( despite starring Caterina Cavalieri as Donna Elvira and Aloysia Lange as Donna Anna , the opera was even less successful there than Figaro , having only 15 further performances ) ; three piano trios written for Puchberg ; a piano sonata , and a quantity of light vocal music . |
| 8 | I wanted to on the report you know so always had it with easy reference but |
| 9 | This lay demand for teaching about contemplative spirituality together with the particular emphases of individual mystics who met and also stimulated it in fourteenth-century England , both represents , and engages with , a complex web of theological and socio-historical developments . |
| 10 | He probably did it to countless women all the time . |
| 11 | She then draped it with vivid red silk , secured in place with a glue gun . |
| 12 | Worrall gave it , then disallowed it for offside but the linesman changed his mind after Pickering made a long appeal and Worrall then allowed the goal . |
| 13 | As his own name shrivelled in the heat , he dropped the envelope into the ashtray and watched it burn to a husk , then prodded it into tiny fragments with the extinguished match . |
| 14 | To demonstrate his methods John turned a sphere , then decorated it with routed fluting . |
| 15 | I chose my favourite poem in the book and wrote one verse on the accompanying card , and then decorated it with pressed flowers to match the bookmark . |
| 16 | Pike and Watkin unceremoniously rolled old Tosspot into the shallow hole and , whilst Athelstan muttered some prayers , hastily covered it with icy lumps of clay . |
| 17 | Marx accepted this general point implicitly though he nowhere discussed it in full [ Krader , 1972:36 ] and it was to offer a framework to much of his later writing . |
| 18 | Older books surveying the theology of the nineteenth century , such as John Oman 's The Problem of Faith and Freedom ( 1906 ) , commonly applied it to extreme radicals , and spoke of Ritschl as neither ‘ liberal ’ nor ‘ orthodox ’ but ‘ mediating ’ . |
| 19 | We sold the residual sixteen years , approx , to a client represented by Harvey Gough & partners , who soon afterwards resold it by private treaty to a small company whose name I have not yet discovered , with the rumoured intention that it would be turned into a private nursing home . |
| 20 | She never wore it with ordinary patients . |