Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in screwing the top , I moved it over slightly to give clearance for my jigsaw blade , and started to cut off the overlap . |
| 2 | In her wake came the likes of Chrissie Hynde , who found it easier just to wear the trousers . |
| 3 | The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside . |
| 4 | And I scratched it on there to make sure that I did n't forget it . |
| 5 | But when her hubby heard of her endeavours he hotfooted it upstairs only to discover that the sock where he had hidden £500 was gone . |
| 6 | That had shocked me until I heard it too often to remain shocked . |
| 7 | Wexford grasped it in both his hands , raised it high and brought it down hard to meet the empty air . |
| 8 | And all four of them discovered the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his brand of Transcendental Meditation — and took it seriously enough to fly to India and study at his feet in Rishikesh ( John and George stuck it out for two months , Paul for one and a homesick Ringo for only ten days ) . |
| 9 | Pete apparently Pete made it up just to get erm get at her . |
| 10 | She said it deliberately firmly to hide her hurt . |
| 11 | When it was fully clear of the cave , three of the hunters then simultaneously seized it by head , tail and centre and held it straight enough to feed head-first into an open sack held by the fourth man . |