Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took it along to Stationers ' Hall on 2 November 1691 and entered it in the Stationers ' Register to establish copyright of a sort : |
| 2 | ‘ I caught it in the banisters as I turned the corner , ’ I lied . |
| 3 | The fisherman was so shocked that he let the body slip back into the water and , though he reported it to the police , no action was taken by them . |
| 4 | ‘ Dad , I found Froggy dead — murdered — reported it to the police , made my statement , and that 's it . ’ |
| 5 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 6 | ‘ You think we just built it for the tourists ? ’ |
| 7 | A Roman Catholic persecuted under Elizabeth I , he designed the Triangular Lodge in his prison cell as a symbol of the Holy Trinity and built it in the grounds of his home when he was released . |
| 8 | we found it among the hollyhocks , a new life |
| 9 | It meant that manufacturers no longer needed to seek their power where there was fast-running water , especially in the higher reaches of lonely dales , but found it near the canals which brought coal to them cheaply , or directly upon the coalfields themselves . |
| 10 | Quickly she banished the memory , but as she was about to declare she thought he had a sauce , he had opened the folder that lay on the desk and , taking out a sheet of paper , inspected it through the lenses . |
| 11 | The British Foreign Office analysed the constitution of North Korea and compared it with the constitutions of other communist states . |
| 12 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 13 | She carried a long pole which was draped with hanks of haigus wool , and she dropped it across the rails of the staging , then turned back into the gloom of the shop again . |
| 14 | Absently Luke took the carnation from his button-hole and dropped it on the bookshelves . |
| 15 | At a particularly exciting point I dropped it between the seats in front , and insisted that my parents ask the people to look for it . |
| 16 | Groups on the left opposed it on the grounds that IMF policies had damaged developing countries , and on the right it was opposed on the grounds of cost . |
| 17 | He drove it around the grounds of his father 's Herts home . |
| 18 | He had a hammer and banged it against the walls to restore order but nobody took any notice of him . |
| 19 | Lewis was inclined to ground his grudging acceptance of democracy on the doctrine of original sin ; Tolkien rejected it on the grounds that public virtue can not be mechanised or formulated . |
| 20 | The Presidium of the Czech National Council approved the draft on Feb. 12 , describing it as " the basic point of departure for the talks … on the final wording of the agreement " , but the Presidium of the Slovak National Council rejected it on the grounds that the Slovak delegation had made too many concessions . |
| 21 | Yeah , he played it in the Witches |
| 22 | This closer relationship incidentally increased the role of the state in most of these economies , but subjected it to the risks inherent in the political strings which the lending institutions attached to their ‘ aid ’ . |
| 23 | I dug it into the roses instead . ’ |
| 24 | He poured it into the glasses and handed her one with a mocking little bow that nearly made Hilary throw the liquid all over him . |
| 25 | The Midland kept its own account at the Bank and used the Bank 's notes instead of its own ; this protected it against the effects of Sir Robert Peel 's clampdown on note issuing in 1844 . |
| 26 | I threw it on the cobble-stones and Elizabeth cried . |
| 27 | He picked it up and threw it into the flames . |
| 28 | Luke scooped the fish up from Carey 's arms and threw it into the shallows . |
| 29 | Instead , he picked up a stone and threw it into the bushes , then made a noise that sounded suspiciously like ‘ shoo , shoo ’ . |
| 30 | Because I mean did you see that er on er they showed it on the Clothes Show that thing when she was wearing it . |