Example sentences of "[vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | To take the photograph he must have stood on the edge of the wood , under the beech hedge which bounded it perhaps . |
| 2 | All along the terrace , on the low wall that bounded it , stood the statuary his father had once told him had been placed there by whoever inhabited the place before Hilbert and Lilian came . |
| 3 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 4 | Standing on opposite sides of the pile , Mina and Kāli beat it with wooden spades , softening the clay and mixing in the cow-dung . |
| 5 | It was then that the peasant beat it — and beat it and beat it and beat it again . |
| 6 | She beat it down , while she thought , These two , we 'll see nothing of them , they 'll be off |
| 7 | erm and it 's malleable , you can hammer it , you can hammer it into shapes and panel beat it a car or bits of lead you could dress it , you can tap it with a . |
| 8 | But er we eventually beat it though and as I say a good colliery you could er you could beat 'em to it . |
| 9 | The housebreaker freed one arm , and grasped his pistol … he beat it twice , with all the force he could summon , upon the upturned face that almost touched his own . ’ |
| 10 | I was always a sensitive child , but he beat it out of me , taught me that the only way to make your way in life is by standing up and fighting for what you want . |
| 11 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 12 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 13 | funny it 's like cos they had the keyboard and that sort of rap beat it 's like , and all my kebabs are in salad cream , rap it on , stack it on , that 's my scene , gim me some kebab kebab gim me ages , wicked tune , I mean all these words |
| 14 | Yeah , even connected it on the end here , the , the station and set this display decoder up and it even did it there so it was nothing to do with the live lamp wire , the way they routed it we thought that perhaps rerouted it to the cable or something like that |
| 15 | To avoid their notice , and give them time to get clear of the folded valley before he ventured it , he turned on a contour course towards Ruthyn , and kept in the fringes of the forest , watching the glint of steel come and go on the track lower down the slope , drawing steadily nearer to him , but some half-mile below . |
| 16 | North , wanting to go to church , deferred it . |
| 17 | I phoned it up and says the fella had been out , you know , they change , update it |
| 18 | Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office . |
| 19 | My readings in Zen , too , had shown me the folly of love , analysed it as an illusion among all the other illusions of this floating and temporary world , an emotion that by its very nature created suffering . |
| 20 | Knowland analysed it thus : ‘ Margins are eroding . |
| 21 | or individuals possibly working for a higher degree , have gathered information and analysed it . |
| 22 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 23 | Throughout his life Eliot brought the anguish of his difficult and divided nature to the surface of his poetry , just as in oblique form he analysed it in his prose . |
| 24 | He was noticing everything , the way the light played on a broken brick in the wall opposite and sometimes it looked hollow and sometimes it looked a bulge , which proved that you could n't say that what you saw , however carefully , scientifically , you analysed it , was a scientific fact . |
| 25 | FoE termed it ‘ pathetic ’ . |
| 26 | In practical terms what was at stake was the need to close the price scissors , as Trotsky termed it , that is , the disparity between the high prices for industrially produced consumer goods and means of production , compared to the prevailing world market prices , and the prices being paid for agricultural produce . |
| 27 | We have contrived the ‘ Big Bang ’ theory — a typically western aggressive concept — whereas the Hindus termed it ‘ the churning of the milky ocean ’ . |
| 28 | We termed it thus because the depression arose from role performance and not from their psychopathology . |
| 29 | Once surrender had been agreed to , it was obvious that the Partisans had one object , and that was to secure , as they termed it , the " Booty of War " … within an incredibly short time , certainly less than twenty minutes , the Partisans had all emerged out of the hills and lined the main road for several thousand yards . |
| 30 | When the Z variables were included in the equation , Merrick called it a test of conditional ‘ causality ’ , while if the current values of X ( and Z ) were included in the equation , Merrick termed it a test of instantaneous ‘ causality ’ . |