Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 2 | To accept it required a whole sociology of crime . |
| 3 | The vole had eaten seeds and nuts and because it sensed the long winter to come it had eaten a little of everything : acorns , hazels , haws , hips , sweet catkins , sour apples , sharp sloes , soft blackberries . |
| 4 | The scarcity of jade , the distances from which supplies were drawn and the high input of labour needed to work it made it too expensive for ordinary working purposes . |
| 5 | Having had to resort to asking passers-by to pull it closed for me , I was worried that one day I would n't be able to get in . |
| 6 | She pulled the end of the bath towel across her damp shoulders , and the loose tuck that she 'd used to secure it came undone so that the towel unwound and fell free . |
| 7 | With an eye on the corridor outside , I tried one of the latches and was n't surprised to find it locked . |
| 8 | Joan had not visited Brian 's grave in five years and had expected to find it neglected and overgrown . |
| 9 | It therefore seems odd to find it argued , as one frequently does , that past attempts to do exactly this in relation to various parts of the British Dominions have been , ‘ technically ’ , ineffective . |
| 10 | Mistaking her refusal , Andrew put back a less prudent hand to find it struck away smartly as she retreated from the arm round her shoulders . |
| 11 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 12 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 13 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 14 | It was not until two o'clock therefore that they became anxious enough to call him on his car telephone — only to find it had been switched off . |
| 15 | Children used to leave out hay for the kings ' horses and wake up to find it had mysteriously been replaced by presents . |
| 16 | ‘ And when you came back from taking a party of tourists round Paris , it was to find it had been demolished , ’ he concluded quietly . |
| 17 | He suggested this to a colleague , only to find it had been thought of before . |
| 18 | I RANG the Israeli Embassy on Boxing Day to protest at their treatment of Palestinian deportees , only to find it closed until December 29 . |
| 19 | One told of their kind offer to look after her garden while she was away and how she came back to find it stripped of all the ripe fruit and the choicest vegetables . |
| 20 | Their first action had been to run to the comms unit , only to find it disabled . |
| 21 | It seems unlikely that the dance was copied into the score at the wrong point : if it had been , one would expect to find it headed by some warning that it belonged several pages later — otherwise severe complications would result in orchestral parts copied from the score . |
| 22 | Leaving it , they marched to Hastings , to find it deserted and on fire ; in retribution for this ‘ scorched earth policy ’ they burnt Rye to the ground . |
| 23 | He threw every ounce of his energy into the run , reaching the bright street to find it deserted by traffic . |
| 24 | The richness all around unsettled him , for he had expected to find it accompanied elsewhere in the Khanate by signs of extreme poverty . |
| 25 | As a bad sign of liberated times , the opposition tried to call a press conference on the morning of Mr Baker 's arrival , only to find it did not have official permission to do so . |
| 26 | A WOMAN driver desperate for a loo ran to a public toilet in Newmarket , Suffolk , only to find it shut — and her car stolen when she returned . |
| 27 | If there is a scientific method , then philosophy is likely to be the place to find it set out . |
| 28 | We were to find it repeated elsewhere over the following two weeks . |
| 29 | And then , of course , I woke up and I dutifully read my papers … to discover it had actually happened . |
| 30 | After a demonstration of this bit of electronic wizardry called Aladin Pro , I was surprised to discover it used Professor Bühlmann 's tables as its basis and , as well as an instruction manual , it also came with a set of Bühlmann tables . |