Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 2 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 3 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 4 | The Palestinians were peeved when the Americans , spotting an impasse , tried to bridge it by coming up with a compromise . |
| 5 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 6 | ‘ The three are married together , ’ he said , and then tried to prove it by citing the events of a previous day . |
| 7 | He 'd done it by making her question herself , she realised . |
| 8 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 9 | Ruth instinctively clasped Fand 's hand again ; she 'd taken it for granted the half-mortals would be hostile to one of Fincara 's Women . |
| 10 | He seemed to take it for granted that she was the one to talk to . |
| 11 | To her horror , Folly saw Luke nod and turn away down the corridor , leaving her alone with this sinister whispering woman who seemed to take it for granted that she was meekly going to strip off and join in what could only be some kind of orgy . |
| 12 | He seemed to take it for granted that everyone would do what he told them . |
| 13 | That if she 'd triggered it by asking questions she might be drowned in the flood of pain that would be released ? |
| 14 | Jaques ( the ‘ Glacier investigations ’ ) found that even a well-defined role in the organisation posed problems for the person expected to fill it with regard to the exercise of authority . |
| 15 | The steel furred to keep it from cracking in the cold , |
| 16 | That was as far as the conversation went , for I decided to end it by pushing open the screen door . |
| 17 | I managed to absorb it without falling off the chair . |
| 18 | However , its brain was minuscule and Hercules managed to trap it by pretending to be an army and getting the animal confused and tangled in foliage . |
| 19 | But it , I do n't need it now , I managed to fix it without bashing it with that . |
| 20 | My Lords , I think I made it perfectly clear what I did mean er I did qualify it by saying that of course there are times when patients do have to wait on trolleys for diagnostic purposes , for observation and for other reasons er but once an admission has been agreed , then that patient should be admitted , that is our policy and that is what we 're working towards . |
| 21 | They , however , did disguise it by smoothing it down and then repainting . |
| 22 | Despite the darkness and unannounced approach , the raiding party found the Armstrong chiefs , Mangerton , Gilnockie , Whithaugh and the rest , awaiting their arrival at Langholm , their ‘ capital ’ , with some hundreds of their very tough riders assembled , a significant indication of their excellent information system in this wild Border country ; and when they heard of the descent on Dacre 's castle of Gilsland , they appeared to take it for granted that they would go along . |
| 23 | This huge increase caused concern among many deputies , but Pavlov had justified it by saying that it took account of forthcoming wholesale price rises and would actually represent a fall in real terms . |
| 24 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |
| 25 | He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support . |
| 26 | Ransome Kuti had accused it of instigating the violence in order to thwart the handover to civilian rule scheduled for January 1993 . |
| 27 | Everyone he had shown it to had described it as brilliant , and by all accounts it was ; rejection hurt . |
| 28 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 29 | If they did catch anything they had swallowed it before surfacing . |
| 30 | We also had to do it without spending a lot of money . |