Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once their canvasses showed majority support for the proposal , they moved quickly to bring it to a vote , thereby avoiding the public debate which had accompanied past efforts at prohibiting honoraria . |
| 2 | Two men swam out to guide it towards a moored boat . |
| 3 | Everything he owned just to have it in his hands for a few hours . |
| 4 | I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me . |
| 5 | I think we 'd better leave it at that for the moment . |
| 6 | I 've got Mrs and I think we 'd better leave it at that . |
| 7 | We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ? |
| 8 | I 'd better give it to you because he has |
| 9 | Or probably , since you ca n't trust anybody any more , you 'd better put it through the letter box . ’ |
| 10 | But then you thought you 'd better put it in the fridge ? |
| 11 | But I said , well look , I think I 'd better put it in my bag , do n't you , it wo n't do any harm there . |
| 12 | ‘ Faye needs someone as soon as possible now , so perhaps I 'd better square it with the hospital for you . |
| 13 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 14 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 15 | you 'd merely likened it to the bin-skips |
| 16 | ‘ He 'd obviously lent it to her . ’ |
| 17 | I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that |
| 18 | I have eaten there once and came away describing it as something not very special . |
| 19 | She went up with little lad and he were watching it and he says I would n't mind this , well Arthur says I 'd al he 'd already taped it off telly and so he says I 'll tell you what you can have it if you give me a blank |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd best take it in your room . ’ |
| 21 | Positivist criminology , on the other hand , seemed scarcely to recognise it at all . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd always watched it on television and I just loved the game , so I asked my mother and father if I could play . ’ |
| 23 | I found the uncles and their wives , and the cousins , too , who were respectively scruffy and stuffy , trying and used to dread the annual get-together — though now I thought back to it it seemed I 'd always enjoyed it in the event . |
| 24 | He 'd also rigged it into the security systems as a precaution and was thus already rigid with dread when Roirbak communicated with him . |
| 25 | Maggie woke up imagining it to be morning , only to discover it was still dark . |
| 26 | He 'd probably achieved it on a pleasant little trip to the Bahamas . |
| 27 | It was my first 6-day race and I came here to enjoy it with no plan or target , so I 'm very happy to have had such a successful run . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Luckily it was n't a heart attack — I 'd simply overdone it in the gym . ’ |
| 29 | He 'd almost learned it from her . |
| 30 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |