Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rushing over to the open suitcase standing on a side table , she snatched from it the long paper-cutter she had brought back for Harold from New York . |
| 2 | Some modern parents would be horrified at this ritual but my mother had the strong belief that as death comes to all , the sooner you learnt about it the better . |
| 3 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 4 | When I came across it the other day , I was slightly embarrassed . |
| 5 | Yeah , I remembered it while I was walking round the shop , cos the more I yeah , the more I thought about it the worse I got when I stood by the machine . |
| 6 | About the homework bit er I thought about it the other day and obviously mine was n't brought up we 're having a set detention night are n't we ? |
| 7 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 8 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 9 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 10 | But they went about it the wrong way . |
| 11 | I pierced the mask of the temporal that is a facade made hideous by the graffiti of desires and I saw behind it the real of human beings , that is , a masterpiece on the wheel of Eternity . |
| 12 | Harnack himself defended that development as necessary for the survival of Christian faith in the ancient Graeco-Roman world , but believed it must now be transcended , for it brought with it the immense danger of transforming the original and authentic gospel of love preached and exemplified by Jesus into abstract intellectual formulae , of confusing the husk with the kernel . |
| 13 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 14 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
| 15 | Since we had shown previously that the bZIP region of the Fos protein is not phosphorylated by the DNA-PK ( Figure 2 , lanes 5 and 6 ) , we introduced into it the Glu- Ser-Gln-Glu motif of c-Jun that contains Ser-249 ( Fos-Core-ESQE ; Figure 5A ) . |
| 16 | There was a discrepancy somewhere and perhaps the less said about it the better . |
| 17 | As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism . |