Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 3 | Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council . |
| 4 | King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain . |
| 5 | I tried to clean it out with a trolley . |
| 6 | When he did n't reply she felt something bad approaching and tried to ward it off with an apology . |
| 7 | They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great . |
| 8 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 9 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 10 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 11 | He stopped to put it back on again , clamping it on his head and holding it there . |
| 12 | Er we always tried to put it over at er Everest product prices . |
| 13 | Mrs Kipling said her husband tried to put it out with a jacket . |
| 14 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 15 | " His dad tried to knock it out of him but it never made no difference . " |
| 16 | Next thing , he tried to knock it down with his lawnmower — said it ‘ ran out of control ’ . |
| 17 | She tried to hold it up against Constance who pulled away and said loudly , ‘ Yellow ! |
| 18 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |
| 19 | EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . |
| 20 | Codron tried to get it on at the Royal Court — on the face of things , an ideal setting-but it was turned down there , too . |
| 21 | Lee tried to get it back off him . |
| 22 | Ruth shook her head , tried to twist it out of his menacing grasp . |
| 23 | She tried to belt it out as Fred , the Stage Manager , had advised , but Noreen was n't a belter and the heavier second house did n't warm to her as much , nor did she to them . |
| 24 | I carried my bewilderment into the coffee shop and tried to drown it along with the froth of my cappuccino . |
| 25 | So , I tried to make it up to her in every way I could — though it was n't easy — she went on hating me for years . ’ |
| 26 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 27 | Anita was small and blonde and full of life ; she seemed to hit it off with Lizzy straight away . |
| 28 | He 'd carried it around with him , framed by the mirror 's gilt , like some kind of talisman . |
| 29 | At the end of the bed was a small card-table which Changez bought for her as a wedding present ; I 'd carried it back from a local junk shop . |
| 30 | I thought I 'd picked it up off a clean pile , but I was mistaken . |