Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schoolboy fan Joe Boxall , 13 , from Hertfordshire , caught it outside the Dorchester earlier this month . |
| 2 | News of the black snow did not leak out until Scots journalist George Rosie reported it in the Sunday Times on 19 September . |
| 3 | Scott was so pleased with the style he had evolved at Battersea , a treatment that humanised industrial forms without denying their function , that he also used it on the Guinness Factory at Park Royal , west London . |
| 4 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 5 | Lord Cardigan found it in the Balkans where proper roads petered out and pot-hole dodging enlivened the journey . |
| 6 | The others went in the car and when I arrived on the bike a little later they 'd been down the 51 steps to the house and found it like the Marie Celeste , everything open , radio playing but no-one around . |
| 7 | The economic affairs commissioner , Henning Christophersen , said the overall Clinton plan was encouraging and compared it with the EC 's own plan to spark the economy out of recession . |
| 8 | Those requiring residential accommodation were means tested and often they or their relatives paid some or all of the cost , while those needing nursing care received it under the NHS — naturally , free at the point of delivery — if private care was not requested . |
| 9 | He injured it in the Normandy landings . |
| 10 | Dvorak 's ‘ American ’ was so called because he composed it in the United States in 1893 , the year when his ‘ New World ’ symphony was first performed , both great works deriving from the same inspiration . |
| 11 | At four o'clock Louise arrived on her scooter and parked it outside the Bristows ' council house . |
| 12 | so I paid it in the November , the second of December they announce me redundancy do n't they ? |
| 13 | In 1864 he purchased Sentry Fields extending from the top of Seymer Road to Durlston Head and developed it as the Durlston Park estate . |
| 14 | WHEN ALISTAIR FINISHED his new screenplay , Offensive from Quasar 13 , he submitted it to the TLM — and waited . |
| 15 | Raised from Lock Oich in the Scottish Highlands in July , the Hurricane crashed there on August 31 , 1941 after an engine fire disabled it over the Highlands . |
| 16 | Continental Airlines again came to the rescue and flew it to the U.S. after our Australian friends had taken it apart . |
| 17 | The Cabinet approved the plan unanimously and placed it before the Knesset where it was attacked by Labour , who claimed that it would increase the financial burden for the middle and lower classes , boost inflation and fail to promote the absorbtion of immigrants . |
| 18 | But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early . |
| 19 | Suppose this chap was Alexandra 's special friend , her Significant Other , as they called it in the States , would n't he get a bit peeved if some strange man appeared at the door asking for her ? |
| 20 | We watched it on the Friday , did n't you ? |
| 21 | To add to Mr Rather 's discomfort , the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , told the Post that he had rejected the same piece of film , narrated by Mr Rather , as false when CBS News offered it to the BBC in August 1987 . |
| 22 | He wrongly combined it with the Judah figure , so producing : |
| 23 | He advertised it in The London Gazette for 5–9 May 1692 , within days of the premiere . |
| 24 | I bought a French team shirt , and wore it at the Liverpool game where we stuffed them 2–2 . |
| 25 | It kept him company on Once Hill and as he pushed the bicycle into the garage and leant it against the Suffolk Punch . |
| 26 | Charles Dutoit programmed it with the Montreal Symphony after he heard the disc , says Lin , ‘ and it was the same thing with Jeffrey Tate . |
| 27 | Although I would have been surprised if London 's Charles Dickens Society required its members to put on a white tie for its annual dinner , the invitation card demanded it for the Scott dinner . |
| 28 | For reaction to the new car , we took it to the MG Car Club 's headquarters on the site of the old factory in Abingdon . |
| 29 | They took it to the Gallows Hill , Cumnock , intending to hang it from the gibbet but the Earl of Dumfries intervened and stopped them as he feared rioting by the people of the district . |
| 30 | I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles … |