Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 2 | Barrow , the former Liphook all-rounder , wants to continue playing Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire and felt it was in his interests to join a division one side . |
| 3 | She looked just too guilty for words and knew it , and Felipe 's dark eyes flashed to the tray and the still unused tablet . |
| 4 | ‘ The English generals , ’ he replied , ‘ had the body dressed and embalmed after Flodden and sent it south for our King to view . ’ |
| 5 | I always cleaned the stove after use and wrapped it in a tough plastic bag . |
| 6 | Later she made herself a light salad for lunch and ate it on the terrace . |
| 7 | He fought for Orkney and won it , against men just like Siward . |
| 8 | She peered at the Christmas cactus she had bought for Alan and decided it looked distinctly sorry for itself . |
| 9 | Next morning I checked the typing for errors and sent it back for correction . |
| 10 | In 1888 he bought Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds for £10,000 and presented it as a civic monument , and he gave £5,000 to Leeds Infirmary , as well as other sums for charitable purposes — deeds for which , in 1889 , he became the first honorary freeman of Leeds . |
| 11 | He calmed the animal , quickly inspected it , then led it to a second , checked this animal too for wounds and led it to Wynne-Jones . |
| 12 | The authors who began to write about rape and related it to male power , male supremacy and male sexuality , questioned what they saw to be the essentialist constructions of female sexuality which continued to predominate within the age of sexual revolution . |
| 13 | She poured herself one last mouthful of whisky and tossed it back . |
| 14 | I snatched my miniature of whisky and lifted it towards the raised glasses at home , before stepping outside to watch those stars to the left of Polaris which would be blinking over Manchester . |
| 15 | Charles poured himself a large slug of whisky and downed it . |
| 16 | If can recall to this day a book I had for review years and years ago in which the hero swaggered into a smart London nightclub , ordered a magnum of champagne and drank it down . |
| 17 | She captured a stray wisp of hair and tucked it in . |
| 18 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 19 | ‘ I cut a picture of a model in a swimsuit out of Vogue and posted it back to one man . |
| 20 | An exchange of letters with Sir Denis Rooke then followed , and in December the Council basically affirmed the importance of institutional visits as the means by which the CNAA built up a picture of institutions and enabled it to exercise its responsibilities , and asked the Working Party on Partnership in Validation to give consideration to the form such visits should take . |
| 21 | She extracted the required amount of money and handed it to the girl . |
| 22 | Juliette picked up the tray of crockery and carried it to the dishwasher . |
| 23 | I just seem to remember vaguely that she 's about twenty-five or six , about five five , hundred and fifteen pounds all where they 're supposed to be , hair that looks like somebody grabbed a handful of stardust and smoothed it over her head . |
| 24 | Then it inclined its head and struggled fiercely with arms pointing earthwards , and Roland caught glints of silver and reconstituted it as a person in a wheel-chair , possibly in difficulty . |
| 25 | Meredith felt a quiver of fear and buried it fast . |
| 26 | Out by the pool she found a girl who greeted her warmly and , delving into the recesses of her knapsack , brought out a box of nougat and gave it to her . |
| 27 | She found the chess-board under a pile of books and manoeuvred it out . |
| 28 | Once , he even put a live spider on a piece of tape and forced it into the terrified 11-year-old 's mouth . |
| 29 | Jack thought to himself as he poured yet another cup of tea and took it back to his comfortable swivel chair . |
| 30 | Still yawning , he made himself a cup of tea and took it to bed . |