Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 2 | The case of the chainmaking trade was particularly acute because of the large numbers of women who entered it during the late 1870s from nailmaking . |
| 3 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 5 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 6 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |
| 7 | A return to Cornwall after seven years eventually opened the way to a conversion in which Bray 's family past reasserted itself against his recent deviations , and , without transforming his personality , reinforced it against the mental weaknesses to which his sister succumbed . |
| 8 | So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody . |
| 9 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 10 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 11 | The company took the name of the new boss , who moved it into the structural market , building bridges , stations , hotels and even piers at Redcar , Bournemouth and Plymouth . |
| 12 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 13 | Phosphatidylethanolamine shifted most of the cholesterol to the vesicular phase while phosphatidylserine moved it to the non-vesicular fraction . |
| 14 | Again he made an early break and sustained it throughout the four-lap race . |
| 15 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 16 | This little harbour near St Austell is named after Charles Rashleigh , who built it in the late eighteenth century to a design by John Smeaton . |
| 17 | McIllvanney was a Protestant bully from the Shankill Road in Belfast , who had learned his thuggery in the hard school of Northern Ireland 's prejudices , honed it in the British army , and now put it to whatever good use he wanted in the Bahamas . |
| 18 | ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line . |
| 19 | Davidson had of course great opportunity for influence upon Baldwin , and he used it to the full on this occasion . |
| 20 | I never used it in the like people put it in the till . |
| 21 | Mitchell 's pass found Wright , who slipped but regained possession of the ball and squared it to the far post , where McGinlay was lying in wait to beat Nelson from inside the six-yard box . |
| 22 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 23 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 24 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
| 25 | But young Morton found it among the dead cases , all the same . ’ |
| 26 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 27 | ‘ I went for a net to get it out and , to my amazement , found it in the tight embrace of a frog . |
| 28 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 29 | But when his father 's will revealed that his marriage to Venetia might mean his losing £10,000 a year ( approximately £400,000 today ) he defeated it by the simple but ruthless stratagem of getting Venetia converted to the faith which he had himself rejected in everything except name . |
| 30 | He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip . |