Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hound grunted with pain and he let it fall limp at his feet , a small dark trickle of blood flowing from one nostril . |
| 2 | Colin bought the cordite and used it to light fires with . |
| 3 | Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’ |
| 4 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 5 | The developmentalists grabbed it and used it to make distance between the materially rich and poor nations so that very soon ‘ Third World ’ universally connoted poverty , overpopulation , disease , disorder , illiteracy , violent social upheavals and every imaginable human horror . |
| 6 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 7 | But I found it collected dust in a corner . |
| 8 | In my gybe , it seemed that by pulling up on the boom I was committing a lot of weight to the back which , although turning the board initially , caused it to lose speed through the turn . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , as Means and Smith point out , the NFOAPA 's concentration on pensions issues caused it to ignore inadequacies in medical and social provision whilst ‘ its campaigning style was unlikely to have been appreciated ’ within the corridors of power . |
| 10 | In 1988 Meekatharra Minerals claimed it found gold above normal limits near Ballymoney , Co , Antrim . |
| 11 | The Government was claiming it was entitled to intervene under an EC directive which allowed it to impose restrictions on ‘ retransmissions ’ of broadcasts from other member states . |
| 12 | No , I started it saves time in the morning . |
| 13 | It was too heavy to turn in the wind , but it mattered little to know which way the wind was blowing : wherever it blew it blew word of the miraculous pageant and the Angel Gabriel . |
| 14 | As the fish died it changed colours like a rainbow , and he left his body and has never really returned to it . |
| 15 | Those who managed it had access to information and carefully sifted opinion . |
| 16 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 17 | It 's time the bridge went it causes chaos with the traffic |
| 18 | The illusion of success was maintained only because the group 's high share price enabled it to buy companies on the cheap and so keep pushing up total profits and earnings per share . |
| 19 | This further increased its authority and enabled it to keep control over events , at least for the next few months . |
| 20 | First he sought to use it to spread the gospel of trade unionism elsewhere in the north-east and eventually persuaded it to establish branches at Middlesbrough , Hartlepool , Seaham Harbour and in North and South Shields . |
| 21 | I thought it dishonest-comparing facts with a hypothesis . |
| 22 | Thought it spelled death for her professional future . |
| 23 | The Japanese company 's Bluebird model , the first to be built at its Sunderland factory , never rated : dealers thought it lacked pzazz for executives . |
| 24 | Such as the time when the very inebriated gentleman , at 2 a.m. , wanted to know how to stop his budgie falling off its perch , because he thought it had cramp in its legs ! |
| 25 | The form of privatisation , normally held to be conversion into a limited company with sale of shares and promise of profits generated from the company 's activities was unclear , but most took it to mean sale at auction . |
| 26 | Chang made it to match point on Lendl 's serve . |
| 27 | And erm for summer then we put some here and some seaweed and it made it look kind of queer like but Mr Davis our art teacher just thought it would make it look more interesting . |
| 28 | This hillside defence system was probably set up by the Votadini , a tribe whose continual harassment by the neighbouring Selgovae led it to seek alliance with Rome at a very early stage . |
| 29 | He said that when the Government realised it faced defeat on amendment 27 it had produced a second legal opinion . |
| 30 | Marcus Browning got it to send Hereford on the way to an easy win over Halifax Town . |