Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked it up after the election and modified it in the light of the amendments that we had tabled when we were in opposition . |
| 2 | Helen took a tape-measure out of her pocket and suspended it above the grave . |
| 3 | She walked across the clearing and prodded it with the gun till it fell to the ground . |
| 4 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 5 | Although the public as a whole accepted that loyalist extremists had destroyed the Alliance Party headquarters , a number of local people , including some caught in the blast of the explosion , doubted it from the beginning . |
| 6 | He hooked it into the bunker on the left of the green . |
| 7 | The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April . |
| 8 | He Pronounced it in the way of Upper Egypt , dropping the " L " |
| 9 | The man drew it to the attention of a companion and , together , they lifted the strut of wood clear . |
| 10 | He took it along to Stationers ' Hall on 2 November 1691 and entered it in the Stationers ' Register to establish copyright of a sort : |
| 11 | The whole company — all but for Colley the Mason — was ranged round the chapel when she banged shut the door and bolted it against the mob . |
| 12 | Table 5.1 shows that the manufacturing sector led fixed investment in 1978 , but that ‘ financial and business services ’ overtook it during the recession ( and had doubled in amount by 1986 ) . |
| 13 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 14 | Frank Muir , introducing the slot , described it as the television industry 's favourite play . |
| 15 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 16 | But at the same time this form of contact can seem to other policemen and women as skiving , as even one member of the public described it to the field-worker ( FN 17/12/87 ) , p. 6 ) , although such a caricature obscures the fact that the contact often has a more meaningful purpose . |
| 17 | This is called Reynaud 's Phenomenon , after the French doctor who first described it in the thesis for his medical degree in 1862 . |
| 18 | The captain of the Rebecca Sims described it in the ship 's log as a brownish-grey reptile at least 45 metres long . |
| 19 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 20 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 21 | I caught it with the jet of flame and it zipped off out of range , heading for the water by the side of the hill the savage buck had attacked me on . |
| 22 | Schoolboy fan Joe Boxall , 13 , from Hertfordshire , caught it outside the Dorchester earlier this month . |
| 23 | ‘ I caught it in the banisters as I turned the corner , ’ I lied . |
| 24 | I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth . |
| 25 | It was poor Jacob who caught it in the neck . |
| 26 | I seen it on the News — |
| 27 | She located the air supply tap , pulled a tube from the back of her suit and plugged it into the tap : there was no point in using the suit 's air and batteries while she could draw air from the shuttle 's recyclers . |
| 28 | He told her ; and he watched suspiciously as she glanced at the sheet of instructions , set the timer and plugged it into the power point that controlled the standard lamp . |
| 29 | You wanted to hear all that stuff about nipples and erections and squeezing and pushing — how we fell onto the bed and nearly crashed it through the floor ? |
| 30 | Dinah queened it over the teapot , smiling bravery , Nathan Holland at her elbow . |