Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] 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 | The Palestinians were peeved when the Americans , spotting an impasse , tried to bridge it by coming up with a compromise . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The three are married together , ’ he said , and then tried to prove it by citing the events of a previous day . |
| 6 | He seemed to take it for granted that she was the one to talk to . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He seemed to take it for granted that everyone would do what he told them . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The steel furred to keep it from cracking in the cold , |
| 11 | That was as far as the conversation went , for I decided to end it by pushing open the screen door . |
| 12 | I managed to absorb it without falling off the chair . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But it , I do n't need it now , I managed to fix it without bashing it with that . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We also had to do it without spending a lot of money . |
| 17 | And I went up and down the road and miles away then came back and I could n't stop because this bike was very old fashioned and you had to stop it by pedalling back |
| 18 | John Bader of Guernsey , who made a profit out of selling roses to Labour and then sought to safeguard it by voting Tory . |
| 19 | In 1973 Tarasia and Mishra reported on a 10 year old boy who caught a fish in a pond and attempted to kill it by biting ; unfortunately the fish slipped inside his mouth . |
| 20 | There was also speculation that the delay was caused by Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley because she wanted to launch it after returning from a trip abroad . |
| 21 | The champions refused to meet it after selling the 26-year-old to Blackburn for just £25,000 six years ago . |