Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question was one of site , and the Health chairman proposed to build it near Huaiwiri , the small outlying Mannaia oasis close to the route of the new road destined to link Kufra to the Mediterranean ; also close to Hawari , the larger Jlulat oasis . |
| 2 | Thankfully all men and women returned safely from the Second World War , so a sum of money was given to the hall and a brass plaque erected declaring it to be a memorial village hall . |
| 3 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 4 | ‘ We were a bit shocked when the fire brigade arrived to cover it in foam . ’ |
| 5 | Financial problems aside , the company had already received the kiss of death in that , two years ago , the Department of Trade and Industry chose to feature it as a prime example of the Enterprise Initiative . |
| 6 | This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck . |
| 7 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |
| 8 | My agent had borrowed it for me from a cousin who had gone to New York for six months . |
| 9 | Soon it could no longer be seen by the naked eye , but the professor continued to watch it through binoculars . |
| 10 | The priest had done it with orders for the pile of stones to be pulled down . |
| 11 | Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’ |
| 12 | The average East German was unable to spend his holiday at the Black Sea , as the government-led tourist industry had allocated it to Westerners . |
| 13 | A war veteran had sold it to him ; part of the booty plundered from some Boer farmhouse . |
| 14 | The wind had turned it into an octopus and the old lady muttered , ‘ Oh dear , oh lord , oh good heavens , what a nuisance . ’ |
| 15 | Staff at the medical centre at Heathrow airport once called in the Customs and Excise after discovering that two men admitted in a critical condition had brought it upon themselves after swallowing a total of forty-eight condoms filled with liquid cannabis . |
| 16 | Rather than concentrate the raising of revenue at the production end of the broadcasting process , by selling airtime to advertisers , the Sykes Committee recommended raising it by charging a flat rate annual licence fee to the consumer . |
| 17 | Heritage groups had feared it would leave the country after the Tate Gallery failed to buy it before the sale . |
| 18 | They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess . |
| 19 | He was playing superbly — but the boss kept knocking it inside him and popping them in . |
| 20 | Indeed , they had reckoned German strength in the area to be at most one corps although British Intelligence had estimated it at three and a half corps and even this , in the event , proved an underestimate . |
| 21 | The list of names was approved by the Prince Consort before Hall had sent it to Palmerston . |
| 22 | In essence , the obsessive Clare Leash had taken it upon herself to make a full account of the volumes in the Society 's possession , and had suffered a stroke while doing so . |
| 23 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 24 | It was then contended that because the name , the signature as the judge had held it to be , had been written at the top of the document before the dispositive contents had been written , it could not have been intended ‘ to give effect to ’ the dispositive contents . |
| 25 | She had given Nina all her cash , and the girl had thrown it at Clive . |
| 26 | The IAC held a press conference to trumpet their document and announced that every international athlete had signed it with the exceptions of Steve and me . |
| 27 | THE sports and leisure company founded in 1980 by the former tennis international , David Lloyd , is planning a March flotation expected to capitalise it at more than £50 million . |
| 28 | Wendy Bell ( Private & Offshore Banking , Edinburgh ) and Judith Stobbie ( Branch Services , Edinburgh ) who were in last year 's winning team failed to make it to this year 's final . |
| 29 | Cars moving over the high track of the flyover began to sweep it with their head-lamps as they travelled on to it and the dusk gathered in patches below . |
| 30 | I learned the next song from my four-year-old son Russell whose teacher had adapted it from an older song to help with subtraction . |