Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My readings in Zen , too , had shown me the folly of love , analysed it as an illusion among all the other illusions of this floating and temporary world , an emotion that by its very nature created suffering . |
| 2 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Helen took a tape-measure out of her pocket and suspended it above the grave . |
| 5 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 6 | He prodded it with a toe . |
| 7 | She walked across the clearing and prodded it with the gun till it fell to the ground . |
| 8 | She twisted the comic into a tube on her lap and clenched it like a truncheon . |
| 9 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 10 | I never doubted it for a minute , Jane , never . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |
| 13 | He hooked it into the bunker on the left of the green . |
| 14 | The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April . |
| 15 | Perhaps then they heated it in an oven , or on a hot griddle ? ) |
| 16 | He Pronounced it in the way of Upper Egypt , dropping the " L " |
| 17 | ‘ He drew it with a piece of charcoal . |
| 18 | The man drew it to the attention of a companion and , together , they lifted the strut of wood clear . |
| 19 | When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was he who curbed my youthful lust and transformed it into a longing for spiritual embrace . |
| 22 | I kept the piece of paper and , after I returned home and thought more about the episode , I transformed it into a poem . |
| 23 | It was an old town , its wealth based on brewing before the Second World War came along and transformed it into a steel and munitions centre . |
| 24 | The ‘ industrialization ’ of the press ( see also pp. 67 — 78 ) transformed it into a commodity and an industrial product . |
| 25 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Police described it as a gangland style execution . |
| 28 | Lawrence Durrell described it as a way of becoming more human . |
| 29 | Lord Williams described it as a system the old Soviet Union would have been proud of . |
| 30 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , whose Rome Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith co-ordinated the drafting of the documents , described it as a response to the ‘ thirst for truth and certainty ’ , but admitted that the death penalty references were ‘ discussed at length , and not without difficulty ’ . |