Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team . |
| 2 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 3 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 4 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 5 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 6 | We gently lowered it to the floor . |
| 7 | He took hold of her hand and gently directed it under the blanket which shrouded him . |
| 8 | Now thoroughly rattled , he bowled a no-ball , from which Lamb curiously took a single and so lost the strike ; but when Walsh now sent down a full toss , Foster gleefully walloped it to the rope and England had won . |
| 9 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 10 | A farmer had a load of unwanted sawdust so piled it at the end of his drive with a notice : ‘ Free sawdust — help yourself ’ . |
| 11 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 12 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
| 13 | She reached up and gently touched it as the pall-bearers halted at the spot where her mother , on holiday from Rochdale , Lancs , was gunned down by mistake by an IRA sniper in Belfast last Friday . |
| 14 | They could n't cope either and , in desperation , literally dumped it on the doorstep . |
| 15 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 16 | But did n't see it on the telly , only saw it on the . |
| 17 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 18 | I only meant it for the best . |
| 19 | He wrongly combined it with the Judah figure , so producing : |
| 20 | After proctors of the lower clergy had objected in 1269 to being committed to a grant simply by the assent of the bishops , a council of prelates in the next year agreed on their own behalf to a subsidy of one twentieth for the king , but only extended it to the rest of the clergy after approval by diocesan synods . |
| 21 | Conchis suddenly gaffed it into the boat , slashed its sac with a knife , turned it inside out in a moment . |
| 22 | ‘ I only wrapped it with the sheet , ’ she said . |
| 23 | ‘ I only stole it for the wire , ’ she said , ‘ but now we 've got it I suppose we might as well drink it . ’ |
| 24 | Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to . |
| 25 | She just made it to the bathroom in time , before she parted unceremoniously with the contents of her stomach , then hung weakly against the side of the washbasin , more wretched and humiliated than she 'd ever felt in her life . |
| 26 | So the Queen and I just made it before the deluge ! |
| 27 | I du n no , I just read it in the book saying what a blow job is . |
| 28 | We finally made it to the road and sped along towards the village in a cloud of dust , the three of us crouching low in the jeep . |
| 29 | What did it feel like when you finally made it to the summit of Everest ? |
| 30 | I just approached it in the way I would were it my album and my band . |