Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 2 | I used it this morning on one of Slash Harry 's victims and the edge is rather blunted " — his mania for self-advertisement and his intolerable bucolic laugh , and was grateful that at least he would n't be interrogating that redoubtable old phoney . |
| 3 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
| 4 | His hair was a little white in places and he found it difficult talking to people . |
| 5 | By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie . |
| 6 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |
| 7 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 8 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 9 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 10 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 11 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 12 | I practised it enough times in the car coming here , ’ Whitlock replied with a grin . |
| 13 | It was a neat idea , and one which placed it half way between the rigid discipline of the Trotskyites and the hopeless chaos of the Anarchists ( or Libertarians , as they preferred to call themselves ) on the ultra-left spectrum . |
| 14 | The government 's policy of gradual economic reform , which also emphasized increased foreign trade and investment , was modest in comparison with " shock " austerity programmes elsewhere in Latin America , but still lost it public support in the June 1990 congressional elections [ see p. 37529 ] . |
| 15 | was a digestive tea , they called it Digestive Tea in those days . |
| 16 | Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea . |
| 17 | It arrived at the sixth , where he drove into the lake , picked out his ball under penalty , then hit it 260 yards with his 1-iron straight into the hole . |
| 18 | Tony , on the Leicester right , started it five yards from his own line with a brilliant burst which took him over the half-way line . |
| 19 | Since I repotted it this spring into a generous-sized pot , it has not only burgeoned but I 've also found it much easier to keep the compost just nicely moist . |
| 20 | But I do n't suppose he saw it that way at the time . |
| 21 | But not everybody saw it that way at the time . |
| 22 | I saw it that way towards . |
| 23 | The landlord of the Dersingham Arms saw it driven past at about three-twenty pm . |
| 24 | and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go |
| 25 | Gloucestershire are soldering on without Syd … in the sunday league they made it two wins in a row with a five wicket victory over Lancashire at Old Trafford |
| 26 | Moffatt , whose long lay-off was due to a facial injury , made it eight wins in a row ( five inside the distance ) by forcing Dhalie into retirement at the end of the fourth round with a damaged shoulder . |
| 27 | Still , the album 's redeeming features made it worthwhile trekking through the odd patches of lacklustre mud . |
| 28 | Champions Macclesfield made it four wins in a row when they inflicted Bowdon 's first defeat , Australian Darren Berry hammering a quickfire 94 not out . |
| 29 | On Saturday , Town made it four wins in a row with a three-two victory at Bournemouth . |
| 30 | Some man , he said oh , he made it all sort of proper . |