Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill was strongly opposed by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) , whose members walked out of the Lok Sabha when Chavan rose to introduce it . |
| 2 | He flung out his other hand towards them in a desperate plea , and Cardiff moved to take it . |
| 3 | Mrs Hawkins agreed to put it into practice after an appeal to the public . |
| 4 | Bready failed to make it an all North West final when they lost by four wickets to North Down , beaten Touche Ross Cup finalists earlier this month . |
| 5 | Gazza tried to play it down , saying : ‘ This was n't Gazza against Maradona , it was only a friendly between Lazio against Sevilla . ’ |
| 6 | King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain . |
| 7 | Oh , we 've been like this all , Amy and Richard tried to tidy it up . |
| 8 | Clem seemed to think it was something to do with me . ’ |
| 9 | United had four cleared off the line … hit the bar twice but it took a hand ball and a penalty from Jim Magilton to get them back into the game … with ten minutes to go the Manor was celebrating an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp and surely they could see the second division side off … but after extra time it was still two all and now down to penalties … the crunch came when Chrissy Allen 's kick was saved … and Swansea 's Keith Walker scored to make it five four to the second division side on penalties … |
| 10 | Lucy seemed to take it in , and to give it her consideration . |
| 11 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 12 | Two hours later , when he had finished , Manville began to double-check it , by re-translating it all back into English . |
| 13 | The light was fading and it was getting cold ; Edward decided to pack it in . |
| 14 | Without specifying whether the state would grant the Roman Catholic Church legal recognition , Salinas undertook to promote it to a " new legal position " . |
| 15 | Fairbrother had not picked up the emphasis in that suggestion , and Richard decided to let it go . |
| 16 | The beam of the bull's-eye lantern did not penetrate the gloom very far , and Josh decided to switch it off . |
| 17 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 18 | Still , Manville struggled to deny it . |
| 19 | He drank when young and while still young drank a lot , challenging himself to knock off all comers , but most of all to align himself with the legendary drinking miners who could and did sweat it off down the pit while Richard had to force it off in games . |
| 20 | Not without throwing a great lot onto the rates because the rates were just Selkirkshire , and Peebleshire had to keep it up then and er we did n't er get grants for it in these days . |
| 21 | One scene involved her wandering round her house in vest and pants , but Roberts refused to shoot it unless the crew took their trousers off too . |
| 22 | But according to a report in The Builder , some architects protested against the competition , while P. L. Hardwick wanted to limit it to British architects . |
| 23 | Dixons refused to exchange it because we did n't return it in the original packaging . |
| 24 | And Ford 's put up a lot of the money and so they wanted their cut from the publicity , and they gave me another award , and their manager in Brighton came to present it . |
| 25 | She had thought it fanciful , maybe allegorical , but Ben seemed to think it was an actuality — somewhere here , near the house . |
| 26 | It was a bit cross ( and told the Germans so ) when Germany seemed to think it could have a debate about whether Turkey , a NATO member , was entitled to the benefits of the same collective security which Germany has enjoyed for more than four decades . |
| 27 | Bell Resources is a crucial element in the deal , since Mr Bond planned to sell it his Australian brewing interests — including Castlemaine XXXX — and then launch a bid for the enlarged group with the backing of Lion Nathan . |
| 28 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
| 29 | Katherine tried to enjoy it , tried to forget her mother 's stalking presence . |
| 30 | She found it behind the chair and picked it up , but Maggie tried to take it from her . |