Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eventually found it on a road off the A35 east of Bridport . |
| 2 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 3 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 4 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 5 | Although marketed as a bass by Fender , Leo personally viewed it as a baritone guitar , thus creating a confusion in the minds of the company and ultimately the guitar-buying public , a confusion which was to dog the instrument throughout its career . |
| 6 | He only classed it as a nightmare because of the head , and even that had more farce to it than terror . |
| 7 | It looked tall but I only saw it for a moment . ’ |
| 8 | Blyth Tait says that the last time he won the top spot from Mary he only kept it for a week and is hoping to hang onto it for longer this time . |
| 9 | She only did it as a temporary measures just |
| 10 | And we only did it as a joke ! you ! |
| 11 | He moved from St James 's Hall to a large , sedate house in Lime Grove , and swiftly converted it into a combination of a commercial office , a factory and a school of physical culture . |
| 12 | Might have been my idea — well , it was , but I only said it in a fit of temper ! — but she carried it out . |
| 13 | Only had it for a few months . |
| 14 | He would have returned it , of course , he only wanted it for a painting . |
| 15 | I only wanted it for a |
| 16 | ‘ But I reckon they just mistook it for a runway . |
| 17 | And for years I sort of just dismissed it as a sort of thing I did in my past . |
| 18 | As I lay on O 's chest something moved me to snap the locket open , and I remember I asked , who is that ? thinking maybe this was the solution to the mystery , and he said , in the same voice that he talked with later in the night , a sleepwalker 's voice , without taking his eyes off the ceiling he said , I do n't know ; I just found it in a magazine . |
| 19 | The photograph he wanted was all crushed and curled but he soon healed it with a squeeze of his fist … |
| 20 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |
| 21 | She allowed the idea of falling in love with him dance across her mind but soon dismissed it with a smile . |
| 22 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 23 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 24 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |
| 25 | But she was still smiling at me , so I just tied it in a knot and left it . |
| 26 | He just reached it as a shout carried across the room , |
| 27 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 28 | We tried tooth and nail and finally impaled it on a thorn tree , tugging at it until the branch flew off and hurtled us into a ditch . |
| 29 | Even Marguerite 's tight shoulders relaxed and , as he slowed the car and finally brought it to a halt before the house , Alain made a sound of deep satisfaction . |
| 30 | I just did it for a laugh . |