Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 2 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 3 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 4 | I tried reversing it to five-one-five . |
| 5 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 6 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 7 | Scandals involving leading members helped to discredit it by 1925 . |
| 8 | She has long thick hair and tried drying it with three different dryers . |
| 9 | So Patsy tried dipping it in cold tea first . |
| 10 | But as she reached for it , tried to bring it into sharper focus , it was gone . |
| 11 | They would all be returning to town in the autumn to meet some sons of good families in Riba ; she 'd been saving for years , money from the pigeons , money from the cheeses , the almonds , her mother 's money when she died — may she rest in peace and perpetual light shine on her — she 'd hidden it from that villainous landlord who 'd strip everyone of their surplus if he knew how much they 'd hoarded , but they 'd never find out , the folk were far too tight to let anyone know , and he , Davide , must not breathe a word . |
| 12 | Even knowing she looked ridiculous , she 'd enjoyed it after that first entrance , had loved being on a stage again , singing with the company . |
| 13 | Basic salary is based on the expatriate 's home salary with a number of allowances added to adjust it to local living conditions . |
| 14 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 15 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 16 | The tsar was well aware that the legislation left much to be desired and delayed publishing it until 5 March , the first day of Lent : " alarmed by the prospect of riot , " wrote an admittedly hostile contemporary , " he hesitated a long time before choosing a day for promulgating the sham freedom and eventually chose the day when it was least of all expected " . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought he 'd saved it at first and was turning to run back to defend when it popped out and over the line . |
| 18 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 19 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 20 | Er and that er in my view anyway demonstrated that we 'd got it about right in terms of our assessment of the effects of the Southern Bypass . |
| 21 | they 'd got it in right , cos she was showing my how it worked and that , all |
| 22 | The way Singer spoke the word seemed to endow it with some great mystery . |
| 23 | She did n't like immobility , she did n't like being on her own , and she did n't like the fact that the wallet still had n't been given back to her , not when she 'd nicked it at great personal risk . |
| 24 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 25 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 26 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 27 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 28 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 29 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 30 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |