Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took the hand-brake off and just moved it about thirty yards . |
| 2 | As to the leading reasons why they did not recycle , 37 per cent blamed a lack of collection points ; 25 per cent said they did not have enough space to store materials awaiting recycling ; 10 per cent found it too much trouble to separate out different categories of waste ; and 8 per cent cited shortage of time . |
| 3 | It was on Stephen Leacock 's advice that I tried my hand at writing humour and found it very arduous work ; writing ordinary prose was hard enough , but trying to make it funny was even harder . |
| 4 | I found it very hard work . |
| 5 | When I first started , I found it very hard work . |
| 6 | Until I changed it earlier this year , the scheme had four essential elements : it met 50 per cent . |
| 7 | I studied it carefully this monring , better to understand what is involved . |
| 8 | Portraying 80 years of Queen Victoria 's life in 2 hours , she starred in the role for 517 performances on Broadway , and played it over 400 times more in a 1937-38 tour that grossed an unheard-of $1.2 million at the box office . |
| 9 | Like several such places it was a quiet little charity school until the railways came and boys could travel long distances to school and the Victorian needs of parents turned it over two decades into a modern and reputable independent school . |
| 10 | Then he screwed up the bag and threw it about two feet away . |
| 11 | I forgot it completely last week . |
| 12 | This was an amazing competition and everybody enjoyed it so much Mike has promised to give them Reliant Robins for their next company cars . |
| 13 | Under the previous legislation the Secretary of State had the discretion to turn down applications but exercised it only 519 times in the space of five years . |
| 14 | Of course she was smiling — if she handled it right this time , she might be able to ask him point blank for a particular day and time for that — perhaps not so accursed — interview . |
| 15 | It set off in pursuit of the Capri , but lost it about five miles away , outside the town of Forth in Lanarkshire . |
| 16 | And I started it about fifteen years later ! |
| 17 | This is a , a helpful and reciprocal relationship because our students , who are in our Postgraduate Certificate of Education course , that 's university graduates who are training to be teachers , do go out into schools in this area and do their teaching practice in those schools in a rather interesting way and we developed a scheme , here in Sussex , which was quite novel when we started it about ten years ago . |
| 18 | Mick Fowler and Phil Thomas managed it just four days before Dave ‘ Cubby ’ Cuthbertson and Murray Hamilton . |
| 19 | Ian Wyllie , who studied cuckoos extensively in Cambridgeshire reed-beds , saw it just three times over a period of six years after thousands of hours of observation . |
| 20 | ‘ When I saw it here this afternoon I felt there was a tiny change . ’ |
| 21 | When he surfaced he saw it about ten metres away . |
| 22 | They classed it as attempted robbery , because I never hurt anybody . |
| 23 | I cross the park , as I crossed it so many times in the past , and regain the modest Edwardian streets beyond Maze Hill . |
| 24 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 25 | He said he thought it very good advice but would not take it . |
| 26 | For two years the Italians and Germans launched air raids , blockaded the island to the verge of starvation , and kept it under constant threat of invasion . |
| 27 | His daughter Beattie was born in the Bulls Head , and took it over 44 years ago . |
| 28 | Then it became a residential nursery before the social services took it over five years ago . ’ |
| 29 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 30 | Took it home last night . |