Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’ |
| 2 | But Richard had not forgotten and seventeen years later he wanted it remembered — however lightheartedly — that he had conquered there , too . |
| 3 | It had been far easier to keep it tidy , she thought , in the days when she wore it pinned up ; the style she had taken to suited her better and made her look and feel years younger than she was but it was a terrible nuisance . |
| 4 | Briefly , the difference between these traditions is not their objective of seeking the basis of human knowledge , but the place where they saw it located . |
| 5 | We had to fix the unfortunate bird to the creance , place it on its perch in a field , pay out the long line , walk to the place where we wanted it to fly to and hold our gloved hands out with a piece of meat . |
| 6 | A minute later he saw it flying past well over to his right at a height of about two hundred feet . |
| 7 | He did not make it obvious , but he led the conversation , changed topics when he thought it needed it , enquired robustly of the lawyer certain things , and more gently of the females , as if to bring out gems of information they had stored in their pretty little heads . |
| 8 | DeFries gave everyone money to get winter coats when he decided it gets cold in the United States . |
| 9 | He heard the train whistle , the engine was slowing for a signal then he heard it pick up speed again . |
| 10 | The archbishop was offering Wolfgang his former post as konzertmeister , together with that of court organist , at a substantially increased salary of 500 florins a year , plus the opportunity of leave whenever he needed it to write operas elsewhere . |
| 11 | I had honestly not thought how you would solve that problem in advance , and I 'm glad I did because my amazement certainly I wanted it to show with the kids when I said ‘ Goodness , what , you know , how on earth are you going to do it that way ? ’ . |
| 12 | Which was partly the reason why I wanted it serviced , it |