Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Badoglio lost no time in advancing on the capital , Addis Ababa — from which the Emperor , Haile Selassie , had already fled to Britain — and entered it triumphantly on 5 May 1936 . |
| 2 | The judge was unimpressed by the argument based on freedom of speech and the application of article 10 , and dismissed it summarily in these terms [ 1991 ] 4 All E.R. |
| 3 | He has several times got himself into a position of strength in his battle with parliament , and bartered it away for short-term gains . |
| 4 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 5 | and I moved it over to that corner there , where nothing else grows |
| 6 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 7 | Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap . |
| 8 | And then inside building we completely demolished inside , just sort of left the retaining walls and built it up from fourteen feet below the ground to five storeys , high , itself . |
| 9 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
| 10 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 11 | We wanted to check the accuracy of an intelligence test for horses , so we tried it out on six horses of known intelligence : three stallions and three mares . |
| 12 | What I done , I taped it back like that . |
| 13 | She took one of my mother 's gingham breakfast napkins from a drawer and wrung it out in cold water . |
| 14 | The Bush administration was vocal in its opposition to the proposal and , backed by massive lobbying by foreign governments and investors , defeated it early in each legislative session . |
| 15 | The Hardys left Swanage early in 1876 but visited it again in 1892 , when they attended a meeting of the Dorset Field Club and ‘ were introduced to old Mr B(urt) , ‘ the King of Swanage ’ ’ . |
| 16 | Using all his cunning arts he forged himself a blade and wove it round with deadly enchantments . |
| 17 | It has its own associated pattern of atmospheric circulation , named after Sir Gilbert Walker who identified it early in this century ( Figure 3 ) , and it is also associated with changes in the pattern of surface temperature . |
| 18 | In particular , it wanted to make sure that auditors told it promptly of any concerns they might have about a banking client . |
| 19 | The commons granted it again from 1343 to 1346 , from 1348 to 1351 , 1353 to 1356 , and in 1356 for a period of six years . |
| 20 | In Pearce [ 1973 ] Crim LR 321 ( CA ) , the accused was guilty when he put a boat onto a trailer and drove it away for later use . |
| 21 | The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest . |
| 22 | Er I think we learnt it probably in different ways , we learnt it more parrot fashion than they do today . |
| 23 | He eventually whittled it down to eighteen thousand and his successors have since reduced the number even more dramatically . |
| 24 | The councillors loved it , and journalists filed it away for some distant future when Mr Portillo might feature in a Conservative leadership election , writes Valerie Elliott . |
| 25 | Having arranged all the larger flowers in the design , I then filled it out with some astrantia and potentilla flowers . |
| 26 | I noticed it especially on one occasion when I was beset with problems which had made me very unhappy . |
| 27 | I noticed it yesterday on that side . |
| 28 | Every time the woman was marking off the numbers Shaney was turning the card over , you know , she turned it over in six cards . |
| 29 | He reached for the engine control and turned it up to full power . |
| 30 | Alexei 's sword blade swept round in a great circle and Rostov turned it off with one of the best parries of his life . |