Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I picked it up after the election and modified it in the light of the amendments that we had tabled when we were in opposition .
2 Helen took a tape-measure out of her pocket and suspended it above the grave .
3 She walked across the clearing and prodded it with the gun till it fell to the ground .
4 Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water .
5 Although the public as a whole accepted that loyalist extremists had destroyed the Alliance Party headquarters , a number of local people , including some caught in the blast of the explosion , doubted it from the beginning .
6 He hooked it into the bunker on the left of the green .
7 The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April .
8 He Pronounced it in the way of Upper Egypt , dropping the " L "
9 The man drew it to the attention of a companion and , together , they lifted the strut of wood clear .
10 The whole company — all but for Colley the Mason — was ranged round the chapel when she banged shut the door and bolted it against the mob .
11 Table 5.1 shows that the manufacturing sector led fixed investment in 1978 , but that ‘ financial and business services ’ overtook it during the recession ( and had doubled in amount by 1986 ) .
12 One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken .
13 Frank Muir , introducing the slot , described it as the television industry 's favourite play .
14 He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that .
15 But at the same time this form of contact can seem to other policemen and women as skiving , as even one member of the public described it to the field-worker ( FN 17/12/87 ) , p. 6 ) , although such a caricature obscures the fact that the contact often has a more meaningful purpose .
16 This is called Reynaud 's Phenomenon , after the French doctor who first described it in the thesis for his medical degree in 1862 .
17 The captain of the Rebecca Sims described it in the ship 's log as a brownish-grey reptile at least 45 metres long .
18 She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine .
19 I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber .
20 I caught it with the jet of flame and it zipped off out of range , heading for the water by the side of the hill the savage buck had attacked me on .
21 I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth .
22 It was poor Jacob who caught it in the neck .
23 I seen it on the News
24 She located the air supply tap , pulled a tube from the back of her suit and plugged it into the tap : there was no point in using the suit 's air and batteries while she could draw air from the shuttle 's recyclers .
25 He told her ; and he watched suspiciously as she glanced at the sheet of instructions , set the timer and plugged it into the power point that controlled the standard lamp .
26 You wanted to hear all that stuff about nipples and erections and squeezing and pushing — how we fell onto the bed and nearly crashed it through the floor ?
27 Dinah queened it over the teapot , smiling bravery , Nathan Holland at her elbow .
28 The manager of the branch concerned could not possibly pay the cheque , but , since the Ingard group has many small investors and its collapse would have wide repercussions , he at once referred it to the board .
29 I went through the proper process and the local MP er , er MP for Labour , did n't know much about it , and he referred it to the Postmaster General , I think it is , who took three months to answer .
30 It 'll slide on ca I mean I moved it into the corner so that erm
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