Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 5 | Scandals involving leading members helped to discredit it by 1925 . |
| 6 | But as she reached for it , tried to bring it into sharper focus , it was gone . |
| 7 | Basic salary is based on the expatriate 's home salary with a number of allowances added to adjust it to local living conditions . |
| 8 | The way Singer spoke the word seemed to endow it with some great mystery . |
| 9 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 10 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 11 | We forgot to put it in last night anyway . |
| 12 | Gaidar 's speech was followed by calls for his resignation , but on Sept. 23 the Supreme Soviet refused to endorse a no confidence motion , encouraged to reject it by Supreme Soviet Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov , usually a critic of the government , who asked deputies not to make such a " strategic mistake " . |
| 13 | Because of his inexperience and the firing of the two previous directors , he asked to do it under another name , not wanting to take the rap for a flop . |
| 14 | Gabriel took over John Coffin 's neglected cup and began to drink it in anxious little sips . |
| 15 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 16 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 17 | credit card or trading check which can be used only in specific shops ) ; or it is unrestricted , where the borrower gets a loan of money which he could in practice use for whatever he wants ( even if he has in fact arranged to use it for some particular purpose ) . |
| 18 | On Sept. 25 Bush called the new bill " a bunch of garbage " and threatened to veto it on budgetary grounds . |
| 19 | Then , abruptly , without a word , he turned away , picked up a piece of copy , and began to correct it with short , violent strokes and swirls of his pen . |
| 20 | Charles decided to play it for light comedy . |
| 21 | When Mr Prescott first backed off standing against Roy Hattersley for the deputy leadership last year , and then changed his mind and decided to contest it after all , Neil Kinnock expressed unrestrained irritation . |
| 22 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 23 | In view of his instructions Fowler decided to leave it at that . |
| 24 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 25 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 26 | When he finally decided to publish it in 1678 , he defended its form by comparing the tactics of the hunt for souls with the way in which a fowler must whistle to attract birds , and a fisherman must tickle trout before he can clasp them . |
| 27 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 28 | Exemplifying the way that lazy speaking leads to lazy writing ( nothing to do with dialect , this ) it began one sentence : ‘ Whever as a mid-day snack or an evening bite ’ Whether it meant to put it like this is unlikely . |
| 29 | The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated . |
| 30 | He managed to grab it with both hands as the force of the water , aided by his frantic struggles , propelled him into the yawning mouth of the tunnel . |