Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repetitive enough to appeal to Matthew , 4 , who asked for it at bedtime four nights running , and with sophisticated touches appreciated by William , 6 , normally a boy of the He Man persuasion . |
| 2 | Built , as Penry had told her , almost a century before , its mellow brick and gleaming windows blended into the picturesque hillside , welcome in every line of it to the girl who gazed at it in bliss as she turned off the engine . |
| 3 | In London , the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) did pioneer work in developing a casework approach to the families who came to it for aid , helping them to solve their problems and help themselves rather than become dependent on charitable funds . |
| 4 | With the increase in population from the early nineteenth century , education in this illiberal form was unable to adapt itself " to the needs of the new body of persons who turned to it for help " . |
| 5 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |