Example sentences of "[vb past] it [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ( He pronounced it masster . ) |
2 | I do n't know how you caught it love . |
3 | Then she fell back on the turf and stared at the sky until she deemed it time to go home . |
4 | And , as time melted the sunbeam and dripped it moment by moment from the desk to the floor , Chesarynth had only her dubious belief in Friend to sustain her . |
5 | The even grander Cape to Cairo dream came nearer to realization , but only when victorious British arms took the railway to Khartoum in 1899 , and the copper of Northern Rhodesia ( Zambia ) and the Belgian Congo ( Zaire ) lured it north from the Zambezi in the early years of this century . |
6 | Then I tried it Cloister and it was too boring , and then I saw that they had Lanston Cochin at Mackenzie and Harris in San Francisco , so we used that and when we moved to phototype I did n't really go with the whole Jenson thing at all . |
7 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
8 | and er , I think the younger people quite enjoyed it but the older ones , of course , found it bit of a bind , er particularly after erm the sort of patriotic fervour |
9 | On their way out they found it nose down in the field . |
10 | On their way out they found it nose down in the field . |
11 | At last I judged it time to get off and start walking . |
12 | Gareth Jenkins possessed one of the outstanding talents of his Seventies ' generation but injury prevented it demonstration at the very highest level and it is as a Scarlet , the epitome of Llanelli as player and coach , that he has always been seen and highly regarded . |
13 | Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity . |
14 | His second followed good work on the right wing by Kelly , he played it infield to Hodge , who passed it along the ground to forresters feet … in the same sort of position as white for the 2nd goal … except facing the touchline . |
15 | On 22 June , a Saturday , about ten of us manhandled the Wilsons ' caravan on to the Lecky Road , the main artery through the Bogside , and parked it broadside in the middle of the road , stopping all the traffic . |
16 | The day after , Jamie came in with the wooden dish of porridge , held it out to Cameron , then twitched it away when he reached for it and turned it upside down . |
17 | Unless of course he turned it upside down … ! |
18 | Both Strauss and Feuerbach in effect fastened on the hinge of Hegel 's system — the identification of finite and Infinite Mind — and , having grasped it , turned it upside down . |
19 | Broken apart by force , the lid splintered , the box shed a handful of stones and a drift of dead leaves as he turned it upside down and shook it ruefully . |
20 | She held it away from her , against Franco 's face ; then turned it upside down : |
21 | He turned it upside dawn and sat on it . |
22 | He found it on the floor by the armchair , rinsed it , poured it halffull of milk . |
23 | Some made a good job of the sandwich element , but many paid it lip service . |
24 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
25 | They shipped it South you see . |
26 | He signed it Beachcomber . |
27 | He ran forward , scuttled it under-hand between the massive , spread legs , and dived away to the right , rolling and rolling , arms protecting his head . |
28 | The committee became so unnerved at the thought that the club premises might be under threat that when I said I knew how to deal with these bounders , but it could only be as chairman , they swallowed it hook , line and sinker . |
29 | The Cretans named it Minotaur , meaning ‘ bull-son of the King Minos ’ . |
30 | Youve lost it Kev . |