Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved towards it to take a better look , glad of the chance to withdraw a little from his disturbing presence . |
| 2 | Well , I du n no , you bounced into it did n't you ? |
| 3 | And the Ford Fiesta crashed into it seconds after four-year-old Andrew Afflick landed on the other side . |
| 4 | And the Ford Fiesta crashed into it seconds after four-year-old Andrew Afflick landed on the other side . |
| 5 | As an afterthought she routed in it to find her cigarettes and lighter leaving it sloppily open . |
| 6 | But people do live there , though when I moved in it became clear that a third of the flats were empty . |
| 7 | The Queen-Anne-style windows shining in the reflected rays of the setting sun and the outbuildings clustered round it gave the impression of a small manor house . |
| 8 | Gary Jones , 29 , strapped the device to the exhaust pipe of Phillip Redmond 's van and when he drove off it exploded . |
| 9 | The next thing er which again er is er a detail of something which is already approved and it is merely than in our conditions of service during our discussions with the city er personnel department we noted , or they noted as it had arisen that we indicated the route to erm sick pay over a certain period and before a certain period but not the detail of how you got there . |
| 10 | you 've got proof , and I used to check it as a form teacher every , at the end of every week tick it and sign it I I only had about what , twenty in the class used to , every end of every week check and see they 're writing their homework down and if any problems came of it had n't written it down they were in trouble ! |
| 11 | It is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it which is the consent of the majority or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body , one community which the consent of every individual that united into it agreed that it should and so everyone is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority . |
| 12 | Having a new ‘ toy ’ naturally I played with it to see what it would do . |
| 13 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 14 | Oh I do n't know where it came from it 's been a long time . |
| 15 | Top scorer with twelve enquiries , for no immediately apparent reason , was BP Research , although Martin Rylance who advised on it said that the company covered a huge variety of disciplines . |
| 16 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 17 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |
| 18 | That does not mean plummeting house prices — the old adage about most people simply refusing to move rather than sell their house for less than they paid for it remains as true as ever . |
| 19 | I paid for it did n't I , a pound in a draw . |
| 20 | yeah oh oh bloody washing 's not gon na dry , oh how was the fire last night , we forgot about it did n't we ? |
| 21 | yeah , I would n't call that cheap oh there was summat on t' other day , Sunday , and I told him and he forgot about it did n't he ? , |
| 22 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 23 | The old entrance certainly had some memories … the great American Band leader Glenn Miller walked through it to play his last engagement before going missing in an aeroplane … |
| 24 | She has mis-managed her life , bella said to herself , walked through it dreaming . |
| 25 | When the work started the house was furious , she put every possible obstacle in the way of the builders and arranged for it to rain as soon as the slates come off . |
| 26 | She was warned not to get it dirty , but returned with it covered in chocolate . |
| 27 | My wrists were tied behind my back , an iron brace fixed around my neck and the long chain which hung from it secured round my ankles . |
| 28 | To everyone else at the meeting it seemed quite certain that MacDonald intended to resign and SB returned from it convinced that he would have to form a government . " |
| 29 | An exception was sometimes allowed if a second home was occupied by a dependent relative , who lived in it rent free . |
| 30 | Sometimes you would see people who lived in it walking past the camp . |