Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relieved Rangers manager Walter Smith knew it would need something special to break Marseille 's French resistance , and McSwegan provided it by finishing off a superb move started by Ian Durrant . |
| 2 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 3 | Only in the room Sally had chosen especially for her was Harriet amongst familiar echoes of the past and she never entered it without feeling a wave of gratitude towards her aunt . |
| 4 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 5 | Dad fixed it by removing all four wheels and with an effort we dragged it back into position . |
| 6 | Kilcline got the ball in the net with a header after 80 minutes but the referee Roger Milford disallowed it for pushing . |
| 7 | Even to him it was now barely imaginable , and other eagles he mentioned it to seemed to take it as a lie and untruth , and were angry at him for trying to delude them . |
| 8 | The booms , which were due to be removed yesterday absorbed the oil spillage and stopped it from flowing downstream . |
| 9 | The paper reports being told by another Microsoft competitor that Novell approached it about joining a potential independent antitrust suit against Microsoft . |
| 10 | ‘ We used it for shirting in 1992 and we 're using it in blends with linen for suitings for spring 1993 . ’ |
| 11 | Egyptians used it for embalming their dead , the Mesopotamians used it as perfume and the Romans thought it was an aphrodisiac . |
| 12 | A thickly built oak and beechwood sixteenth-seventeenth century refectory table from the Pyrenees , admittedly characterful ( Tajan 's auction staff used it for stacking their telephones on ) but more than difficult to place in a modern apartment , sold for FFr650,000 ( £67,550 ; $117,500 ) , over twice its high estimate . |
| 13 | The fisheries of the Suli islands between North Borneo and the Philippines , though not particularly rich in pearls , produced fine mother-of-pearl , a material keenly sought by the Chinese who used it for making inlays . |
| 14 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |
| 15 | The Hepplewhite Guide was influential beyond England , in America , in Denmark , where J. C. Lillie used it in designing chairs for Liselund in 1793 , and in Germany , where F. G. Hoffmann pirated Hepplewhite designs in his Meubles-Magazin ( Leipzig , 1795 ) . |
| 16 | We tried it with diesel no unleaded petrol we tried it with did n't work very well . |
| 17 | But the book 's greatest association interest is that another , and greater , poet found it worth studying for its content and craftsmanship . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , he found it worth enquiring , as Presidents of the BAAS were wont to do , whether ‘ sufficient facilities for education in science exist or are in progress in our country ; and whether Government or other important bodies provide sufficient encouragement and reward for its prosecution ’ . |
| 19 | Anxious to do things properly , however , Charles sought the best specialist advice which he could get ; he found it by consulting eminent jurists of the legal centres of Bologna , Montpellier , Orléans , and Toulouse . |
| 20 | For the sake of convenience , I drew a box on each paper and dampened it before applying my wash . |
| 21 | Mapletoft , having knocked over the conversion , trumped it by banging over a 30-metre dropped goal off his weak foot to level at 20–20 . |
| 22 | In one way all this undoubtedly strengthened the papal role — people knew far more clearly what was now wanted — but on the other hand , it weakened it by narrowing the base of loyalty . |
| 23 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 24 | The decision lifts restrictions that were placed by the court on the tiny company several months ago that forbade it from distributing advance copies of BSD/386 code for beta testing , or production software . |
| 25 | So the rise in product wages was both the clearest expression of tightening labour markets and the mechanism which prevented it from inhibiting accumulation . |
| 26 | Its evocation of an idealized pre-war era and its commitment to anti-semitism prevented it from joining forces with other maverick Conservative press barons like Rothermere and Beaverbrook . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the old enemies , the Durotriges , possibly with their allies the southern Dobunni , were soon on the rampage and pinned down Legio II Augusta in its fortress at Exeter and prevented it from joining Paullinus in the Midlands . |
| 28 | The Friendship , Co-operation and Mutual Assistance Treaty , first signed in 1948 [ see p. 9228 ] , bound Finland to a military defence pact and prevented it from joining any international organization whose members posed a military threat to the Soviet Union — a definition which had been taken to include the EC . |
| 29 | In so far as its obstinate traditionalism prevented it from doing what political economy required , it had to be made to . |
| 30 | They said they were n't , but they jammed the bread and ate it without speaking . |