Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 2 | The See Hear programme publicised it on television . |
| 3 | ‘ Then when Omicron upgraded it to multiuser , so did Nabb , ’ says the European financial director Barry Westbrook . |
| 4 | The Fourstars ' lawyer showed it to Medicare which finally relented . |
| 5 | In the sixty fourth minute , Pedro Herbert restored the home side 's lead when he picked up the ball on the break and side footed it past keeper Cummings , to make it two one to Harefield . |
| 6 | Way back at the beginning of the club 's history there was a Ramsbottom as hall porter , and the wags in the club shortened it to Ramsbum . |
| 7 | Mummy bought it for Daddy really ! |
| 8 | The poet gave it to Alice Stopford Green wife of that frail and ‘ singularly attractive ’ priest of St. Philip 's , Stepney , who awoke one day to find himself famous with the publication of his Short History of the English People , one of the most vivid and colourful of histories , first issued in 1874 and later ( 1877–80 ) expanded to four handsome illustrated volumes . |
| 9 | The council passed it for allocation to youth activities . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind the took that decision because Castlereagh Borough Council took it to task over its figures , ’ he said . |
| 11 | This was completed by 10th November , and Hall sent it to Palmerston on the following day . |
| 12 | They submitted a paper for publication and the editor sent it for reviews before deciding whether to publish it ask for revisions or reject it . |
| 13 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
| 14 | Andrew Neil is very litigious for an editor ( ‘ Randy Andy Gets a Grandy ’ , you may remember , as The Sun put it in January ) , so although Pamella told me lots of … interesting things about him , I 'd better tread carefully . |
| 15 | In 1974 , the fire brigade moved into new premises , rendering the existing building useless — so the local district council bought it for £36,000 and changed it into the block of 10 flats for elderly people . |
| 16 | Goose used to be a traditional Christmas bird until turkey superseded it in popularity . |
| 17 | With curious fitness , fate had it in store for him to marry an heiress and settle down in a castle in Spain — he who had conjured up so many of them in the imagination of junior executives . |
| 18 | For Trimotor N7584 only reached $350,000 on the bidding floor but an ‘ after-auction ’ session clinched it at $650,000 . |
| 19 | The cold held it at bay despite the glow of the flames on his face . |
| 20 | An authoritative denial of the Donaldson item came in and Rain passed it to Holly who regretted believing the man or the MacQuillans who had pushed her into writing it . |
| 21 | Accordingly the lenders got their security , and leave to turn it into good cash if no other cash redeemed it in time . |
| 22 | AN EVEN more unlikely winner , Neighbours was bought in from Australia and only took off when Michael Grade moved it from lunch hour to teatime because his daughter , Alison , asked him to . |
| 23 | The singer sang it without accompaniment . |
| 24 | The burden of proof lies with the EC federalists to show why the EC would not become like twelve Quebecs , as the author put it to Jacques Delors at a private meeting in Rome in November 1990 . |
| 25 | A McGill team introduced it to Harvard University in 1874 , which marked the formal birth of ‘ football ’ . |
| 26 | Processes of each neuron put it into contact by synaptic junctions with other nerve cells ( Chiarodo et al. , 1970 ) or with sensory structures or effector organs . |
| 27 | Rain left it to Cobalt to help but Cobalt did not . |
| 28 | Tug said it without thinking . |
| 29 | Slowly she drained her glass and for a moment held it in front of her , staring at and smoothing the condensation away with her thumb . |
| 30 | Dormanstown Primary spent it on recreation and learning equipment for its special needs unit . |