Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 2 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 3 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |
| 4 | The chief of the Near East Division had sat him down one day to try to teach him about Iran , but he doubted it had gone in . |
| 5 | At the gateway to the dock a black sports saloon had passed across a junction , unnerving her , but she doubted it had been Rory 's . |
| 6 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Catlett , a plain and practical man himself , pronounced it to rhyme with poor-net . |
| 8 | The Vatican 's decision to allow the exhibition organisers free choice of any volume in the Library is a result of a debt of gratitude towards the Library of Congress , which , in the 1920s and 1930s , helped it modernise its systems . |
| 9 | The initiative helped it to take on new staff , all previously unemployed , and train them in skills ranging from computing to business administration . |
| 10 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |
| 11 | This ‘ Champagne ’ image helped it recover . |
| 12 | THE FT-SE 100-Share Index fell nearly 50 points by mid-afternoon yesterday and was in imminent danger of dropping below 2,900 before a late rally helped it recover to close at 2,915.9 , down 37.5 on the day , in busy trading . |
| 13 | Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets . |
| 14 | Last year Philips petitioned Brussels for this price rise , without even telling Sony , the Japanese company that helped it develop the digital disc system . |
| 15 | Over the same period , Joe has been one of the players who helped it develop from its infamy as the so-called sign of a mis-spent youth to become a symbol of sporting success . |
| 16 | Loyalty to the group 's famous brands helped it to boost pretax profits by 13.2pc last year to £316.4m from £279.6m in 1990 , although sales grew by just 2.7pc . |
| 17 | Buick also sorted out its muddled product line and drew up a marketing plan that helped it sidestep the most intensely competitive part of the American market . |
| 18 | The black furry coat with which it was born and which helped it to keep warm during its first days is now sloughed off , revealing the shorter shiny coat which is more suitable for a swimmer . |
| 19 | Where a summons or other originating process has been served on a defendant by post or insertion in his letter-box under Ord 7 , 4 10(1) ( b ) or 4(a) or r 13(1) ( b ) or ( 4 ) and after judgment has been given or entered it appears to the court that the process did not come to the knowledge of the defendant in time , the court may of its own motion set aside the judgment and may give any direction or make any such order as the court may think just . |
| 20 | R — Replied to : An SSR has been generated in response to the SPR and the user who entered it has been informed , but the problem is not yet fully resolved . |
| 21 | R — Replied to An SSR has been generated in response to the SPR and the user who entered it has been informed , but the problem is not yet fully resolved . |
| 22 | R — Replied to — An SSR has been generated in response to the SPR and the user who entered it has been informed , but the problem is not yet fully resolved . |
| 23 | The title Duke of Cornwall and the estate to go with it dates back to 1337 , when Edward III created it to give his eldest son , the Black Prince , an income and somewhere to live ; it was he who decreed that it should always go to the eldest son . |
| 24 | It was discarded when shelving had to be cleared away from a wall on which a mural had been discovered after being painted over in the Stalinist era when the artist who created it had fallen out of favour . |
| 25 | The people who created it made themselves the masters of the Greek-speaking world within two centuries . |
| 26 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 27 | Later we will consider exploring this dimension to the full potential God created it to have . |
| 28 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 29 | As it turned out , Kurt Stengel who designed it worked day and night to get the image just right . |
| 30 | Whoever designed it intended it to be an eye-catcher as well as a practical building , and it remains a local landmark in the middle of a field , Peyto 's estate having long gone . |