Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time .
2 When the community care Support Force was inaugurated , many SSDs regarded it with the same amount of suspicion and distrust as a bird would a snake .
3 An old worker , after giving the machine a jaundiced look , turned the handle and tried it with a few roots .
4 But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four .
5 Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) .
6 His writing , prose and poetry demanded rigorous attention , and received it with the same daily routine that he had established earlier : three pages a day , writing and rewriting , creative and self-critical .
7 I could get tired of even roulette if I always played it in the same place . ’
8 I handed it to a former flight engineer of 213 when I visited him in Toronto some years ago .
9 He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively .
10 The head of South Africa 's CITES delegation , Piet Mulder , agreed that there was evidence of SADF involvement in ivory smuggling , but blamed it on a few corrupt elements .
11 I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’
12 He said nothing , forked another fish , swallowed it with the same indifference he might appropriate to putting out the rubbish .
13 Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later .
14 He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil .
15 This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing .
16 Then [ by the given property of U ] t — 1 + 1 ε U. That is t ε U. But t ε T [ we chose it as the least element of T ] and so unc a contradiction .
17 She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to .
18 To her , religion was morality and appearance , and she kept it in the same compartment of her mind as her dinner napkins .
19 But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night .
20 Also a photo of all the officers of Walsall that I saw in a second hand shop and I went and bought it for a few pence .
21 The horse was totally confused by now and it eased forward in the shafts not knowing what to do next , until Broomhead reminded it with a few well-chosen obscenities .
22 yeah we did it on the same night .
23 ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week .
24 Yeah , probably did it in a few hours
25 It was for Couples , already top of the world rankings , his first major championship and he did it in the same accomplished manner that has already marked two earlier victories on the American tour .
26 Covering the work to protect from frost and rain , we left it for a few days to dry , which helps the shuttering to loosen itself too .
27 She later embellished it with a few words about my inability to dance again — which I 'd never indulged in — and proposed that the girls would be driven even further away .
28 Only had it for a few months .
29 So I chipped it into a little space over the scrum , ran round , picked it up and went up the middle of the field .
30 St John explained it in a few words in verse 18 :
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