Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing on opposite sides of the pile , Mina and Kāli beat it with wooden spades , softening the clay and mixing in the cow-dung . |
| 2 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 3 | There are frequent references to it in Anglo-Saxon writings , and the Greeks and Romans made much use of it ; the Greek army doctor Dioscorides listed it amongst medical herbs , and Pliny also describes it . |
| 4 | As his own name shrivelled in the heat , he dropped the envelope into the ashtray and watched it burn to a husk , then prodded it into tiny fragments with the extinguished match . |
| 5 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 6 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 7 | So when we set out to develop our new Panasonic brand AT compatible personal computer , we designed it for maximum versatility . |
| 8 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 9 | John described it to many interviewers as if the free lessons were a concession in return for taking part in performances , but it would be more realistic to regard the performances by the University of Cape Town Ballet as a valuable part of his ballet education . |
| 10 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 11 | This group were aware of the injury and described it in neutral terms of sensation . |
| 12 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 13 | Laughing he tossed the hot nut , and Emilia , squealing , caught it in gloved hands . |
| 14 | One particularly violent swerve took it right off the counter and Finn caught it in mid air , upside down , wheels spinning . |
| 15 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 16 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 17 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |
| 18 | Some studies have used marks on shells that would disappear if shells decrease in size ; it is known that molluscs can remain living for long periods without detectable growth ; and some studies have recorded negative growth but dismissed it as apparent error . |
| 19 | Those patients with a good postoperative result ‘ maintained it for many years , gained occupationally and vocationally , were pleased with the results of the operation , and were willing to recommend it to others ’ . |
| 20 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 21 | His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look . |
| 22 | She set it down on the kitchen table , stroked it with one finger . |
| 23 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |
| 24 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 25 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 26 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 27 | We sold the residual sixteen years , approx , to a client represented by Harvey Gough & partners , who soon afterwards resold it by private treaty to a small company whose name I have not yet discovered , with the rumoured intention that it would be turned into a private nursing home . |
| 28 | Chiang Kai-shek built it with forced labour , and dusty antique-model lorries still ply it , driven by young men in white gloves . |
| 29 | But I swear , I only mentioned it to one person , and he 's the most trustworthy person I 've ever met . |
| 30 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |