Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [coord] [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.

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1 She offered to do it for Simon and he thought it was a good idea but er he never quite got around to doing it .
2 Small things , but important , the little touches that were typical of Sally and which made it possible to feel charity — and love — for her when she was fussy or critical or just plain annoying as she had been when Harriet had arrived without warning this afternoon .
3 Once again she was being used to wave in front of Claudine and she knew it .
4 The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot , then swivelled and hooked it to one of the young boys with his right , smiling to himself .
5 One child referred to in court as child A , finally admitted taking James Bulger to a railway embankment near Walton but he said it was the other boy child B who threw bricks at him and hit him with a stick and a metal bar .
6 If I 'd have Jan with Ben and we thought it was a new girlfriend .
7 It was the best time John-Augustus had spent with Mary and he saw it as the reward for his charitable act .
8 Cos there was one in July and I suspected it would clash with holidays , which it probably does , so the November one I 'm trying for .
9 Ever since she had left school Paula had worked in one of the big department stores in Bristol and she loved it , although the lengthy journey made for very long days and the bus fares ate holes in her meagre salary .
10 My half-cousin Norman Bayles was hired over in Ravenstonedale and he liked it there .
11 Our first mushroom appeared in August and I ate it , it was very tasty ! ’
12 FRENCHMAN Alain Prost regained top spot in the world drivers ' championship by winning the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal and he did it in typically precise and measured style .
13 and they get that one back in Thursday and they read it to teacher , so it 's two a week and up till
14 She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse .
15 She yeah , that 's her her nickname , cos she was quite big and she played the nurse in Romeo and Juliet in the season on Stratford on Avon and she did it using a Welsh accent because she thought Shakespeare , having coming from quite near the Welsh Border Country might well have had might well have had a Welsh nurse .
16 They showed it to Murray and he confiscated it immediately .
17 Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission .
18 It was Willie 's birthday on Thursday and he wanted it to be a surprise .
19 I come back to Stuart and I said it is the second of November is n't it ?
20 On the crowded train a man gave up his seat to Ianthe and she accepted it gracefully .
21 Akinwande 's manager , Mickey Duff , offered Schulz 's handlers £75,000 to come to London but they rejected it and the rematch is destined to go to the highest bidder .
22 My gorgeous glossy dark locks used to be Mummy 's Delight when I was little , but now it was just wavy like the sea at Brighton and I wore it long with a flyaway fringe — well , it was flyaway if I could stick it solidly enough with gel or spray .
23 ‘ I do n't mean that Anna did n't go on the way she did in front of Mena , but it was n't directed at Mena and she knew it ; she only minded her being unhappy .
24 It was certainly a Cheltenham to remember for Charlie and he recalled it with relish .
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