Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLeod 's family placed a similarly strong emphasis on the value of education but failed , not because of the methods the parents chose to ram it home — on his own admission , they were not ‘ overstrict ’ — but because they set unachievable objectives for him ; nothing short of these objectives would satisfy and so there was no reward for his best efforts . |
| 2 | The androids had taken it away . |
| 3 | This method was considered so cost-effective that some firms continued to employ it even when machine printing offered an alternative way of evading skilled men 's wages . |
| 4 | Strawberry 's prints had marked it plainly and there were no others whatsoever . |
| 5 | Such persons tended to see it simply as a question of money compensation for the injuries which had been inflicted in the shooting . |
| 6 | The Trains made for the French wash but the Russians decided to go it alone , a tactical error . |
| 7 | Servants had prepared it earlier . |
| 8 | Continental Airlines again came to the rescue and flew it to the U.S. after our Australian friends had taken it apart . |
| 9 | As soon as the men had taken it away the next morning , she re-entered the house , very cautiously to avoid Troy , but her husband had gone out very early and did not return . |
| 10 | On the publishing side , which as usual outnumbered the booksellers by a good measure , there was a rash of thrusting marketing types along with the usual grey suits and sales people , so one could say that the publishers had got it more or less right . |
| 11 | Three o'clock in the afternoon and the weathermen had got it wrong , the sun still shone and the sky was blue . |
| 12 | In accordance with Schlieffen 's plan , the Germans had brushed it aside during their thrust into northern France , but Antwerp had now become of crucial importance . |
| 13 | Life as the artists had known it only a few weeks earlier no longer existed . |
| 14 | These factors continued to make it more difficult for him to provide the separateness and space that Liddie needed if she were to develop her limited confidence in herself as a mother . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , 12 members of the Cabinet did visit the shrine on Aug. 15 ( and at least three others had visited it earlier in the month ) , although most claimed that they had done so in a private capacity . |
| 16 | I was fighting my own terrors in public , but others wanted to do it more gently . |
| 17 | He slid his hands into the sleeves , and lifted it to turn the back to the light , and for a few minutes stood studying it closely . |
| 18 | ‘ It is n't every man who approves of women having ambition , ’ Ashley remarked a touch cryptically — for when she had been made a director several of her male colleagues had found it very hard to handle . |
| 19 | Well it fell on the slabs had to tie it right |
| 20 | ( The Romans had used it also but only in decorative form . ) |