Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 3 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 4 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 5 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 6 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 7 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 8 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 9 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 10 | In the final minutes of the spacecraft 's descent , Soviet ground controllers tried to guide it towards the ocean but lacked the necessary fuel . |
| 11 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 12 | Right so if you get to know if you drew do it through the week do n't worry about the pie charts do n't worry about the fractions . |
| 13 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 14 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 15 | So that that just stopped did it in the end . |
| 16 | McFarlane , who in his more sober Methodist way felt much the same , tried to explain it at the hearings . |
| 17 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 18 | Charles tried to make it down the stairs with his eyes closed to allay the pain . |
| 19 | A sensible place to begin this endeavour is with the mainspring of the story 's action , the Ring ( here capitalised to distinguish it from the relatively insignificant stage-prop or ‘ Equalizer ’ of The Hobbit ) . |
| 20 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 21 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
| 22 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 23 | ‘ When I told Martin that I was 10 weeks ' pregnant with my second child , he enjoyed telling people how clever I was because I 'd arranged it between the interims and the final results ! ’ |
| 24 | He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it . |
| 25 | Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion . |
| 26 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 27 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 29 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |
| 30 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |