Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing on opposite sides of the pile , Mina and Kāli beat it with wooden spades , softening the clay and mixing in the cow-dung . |
| 2 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 3 | There are frequent references to it in Anglo-Saxon writings , and the Greeks and Romans made much use of it ; the Greek army doctor Dioscorides listed it amongst medical herbs , and Pliny also describes it . |
| 4 | As his own name shrivelled in the heat , he dropped the envelope into the ashtray and watched it burn to a husk , then prodded it into tiny fragments with the extinguished match . |
| 5 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 6 | John described it to many interviewers as if the free lessons were a concession in return for taking part in performances , but it would be more realistic to regard the performances by the University of Cape Town Ballet as a valuable part of his ballet education . |
| 7 | This group were aware of the injury and described it in neutral terms of sensation . |
| 8 | Laughing he tossed the hot nut , and Emilia , squealing , caught it in gloved hands . |
| 9 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 10 | Those patients with a good postoperative result ‘ maintained it for many years , gained occupationally and vocationally , were pleased with the results of the operation , and were willing to recommend it to others ’ . |
| 11 | If we look at Pound in 1927 and 1928 , when he instituted from or through Paris his periodical , The Exile , and sustained it through four issues , we get the impression of a man yawing about without direction , as at no time either earlier or later in his career . |
| 12 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 13 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 14 | It was what , I used today , they used it in all hospitals . |
| 15 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 16 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |
| 17 | Then they tried it with various kinds of depression , even psychoses . |
| 18 | No I tried it on smaller needles |
| 19 | Here are some examples : What if you … used triangular paper ? tried it in three dimensions ? plotted a graph ? tried a simple case first ? shared your results with someone else ? tried fractions or decimals or negative numbers ? |
| 20 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |
| 21 | She found it within five minutes . |
| 22 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 23 | Over the years , the economic pressures have grown , partly as a result of government policies which committed it to high levels of spending , and partly because of external factors such as declining terms of trade and smaller than anticipated flows of aid after independence . |
| 24 | Encouraged by these findings we have formulated a bismuth enema and compared it with 5-ASA enemas in patients with active distal colitis to examine the therapeutic effect . |
| 25 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 26 | He could mend any broken toy , and make things too — I remember he made a great big rocking-horse for Hilary , and painted it in all sorts of marvellous colours . |
| 27 | After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve . |
| 28 | Rain reduced it to 37 overs a side and the home team were soon rattling along . |
| 29 | He ate it with some biscuits , getting it down fast , his face close to the plate , his fork-hand hooking round to beat illness to the punch . |
| 30 | He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone . |