Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | He kept pulling on the stick , then swung away and made to carry it off . |
| 3 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 4 | Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council . |
| 5 | I suppose it is out of the question that one of our own police stations might have received such a notification , and failed to pass it on ? ’ |
| 6 | We chanced to find it out . ’ |
| 7 | But faced with the sound of the word , and asked to write it down , the possibilities multiply so that instead of half a dozen there are now somewhere round one hundred and fifty variants possible . |
| 8 | Four times people at higher levels tried to kill it off , and four times the people working on it came back and fought for it , argued for it , provided justification and evidence for why it should continue : ‘ Just give us a little more time ; we know we can make it work . ’ |
| 9 | He blustered and turned scarlet as if caught out in a crime , and tried to bluff it out , but I knew him too well . |
| 10 | Nell Anderson stopped , treading water as she tried to work it out . |
| 11 | We tried to work it out . |
| 12 | Rincewind tried to work it out , and decided that even if the box were crammed with star opals and sticks of auricholatum the contents would not be worth one-tenth the price of the container . |
| 13 | so those houses were all sandbagged , but it , it got into some , the problem was that the , the road closed sign kept blowing down in the wind , I tried to stand it up but it was oh so heavy , I got it up , but it , it immediately blew down again , and |
| 14 | Huw felt an unaccustomed tremor of fear , and tried to shake it off . |
| 15 | She tried to shake it off . |
| 16 | Finding she could n't push the pram up the slope , she thought for a few seconds and then tried to pull it up . |
| 17 | tried to pull it out , it wo n't come out , there 's a bracket on it , on the back |
| 18 | Being of only flimsy material and fitting tightly round Angela 's body , it had burst in two places when she fell , and when Mummy tried to pull it off , it tore again . |
| 19 | With a strangled gasp of fury she tried to pull it off , but he held both her hands , preventing her . |
| 20 | He tried to pass it off . |
| 21 | Mrs Hollins tutted fussily and Keith bent to pick it up . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He began to walk down to the windows and saw an envelope on the floor and when he bent to pick it up , the floor creaked and gave way . ’ |
| 24 | He grunted , dropped a spoon and bent to pick it up . |
| 25 | The men laid the stretcher beside the body , and bent to pick it up . |
| 26 | She bent to pick it up , but his voice arrested her . |
| 27 | Her foot nudged the discarded arrow and , unthinkingly , she bent to pick it up . |
| 28 | Jinny tried to track it down , but it eluded her . |
| 29 | Fortunately the aircraft maintained a perfect climbing attitude while I tried to sort it out , I reached for the elevator trim wheel ; one glance told me it was in the normal position . |
| 30 | I tried to clean it out with a trolley . |