Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it past I made it past there |
| 2 | I got it from I bought it at er Blooms . |
| 3 | When I played it through it came back to me completely , as things do if you have really known them when you are young . |
| 4 | Having got that near to international cricket I owed it to myself to try again . ’ |
| 5 | and that cos when I got married I took it with me did n't I ? |
| 6 | I decided to be helpful and , rather than bother anyone , I took it upon myself to move about 30 of the magazines to the Women 's Section . |
| 7 | But it was n't until a fortnight after the accident , when I took it upon myself to see to the downstairs — particularly the kitchen which was in a state — ready for Auntie 's visit next day , that the riddle was solved . |
| 8 | So I took it upon myself to tell her , old nosey-parker that I am . |
| 9 | I took it upon myself to suggest that two-tone bream are simply another variety of common bream ( not another breed ) just as black fish and bronze fish in the same water are varieties of the same species , and as mirror and leather carp are varieties of the same species . |
| 10 | ‘ I redrew it to what fitted our site and what I needed in terms of accommodation for the children and grannies who appear from time to time — mindful of the fact that Edwina and Michael were two and four , but were n't going to stay that size for long . ’ |
| 11 | She meant Hepzibah and Mister Johnny and how she owed it to them to let them stay in the house because there was nowhere else they could go , not with Mister Johnny 's shy ways . |
| 12 | for Christmas , and it was delicious the way her mother made it so she started it with me writing it down , see , and she told me the ingredients and then she said you brews the ginger I thought |
| 13 | Anyway , I thought you took it on yourself to see to everything in the house over there ? |
| 14 | ‘ Look , ’ she bit out , ‘ if you … you took it upon yourself to waltz into my bedroom , uninvited , merely to admire the scenery then I 'd appreciate it if you 'd kindly waltz back out . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to see some patients in Santa Barbara , and I thought you 'd like to come , since you took it upon yourself to interfere in the Freitas family 's life . ’ |
| 16 | When she confessed to shooting Martin no one could doubt she had it in her to pull the trigger . |
| 17 | And this filled the perverse daughter with a great desire to go even a little way into the wild wood , where there were no plates and no stitching , but might well be a need of such things as she knew she had it in herself to perform . |
| 18 | Though , you know , there 's a sense in which we can use , we we 're a , we gave it in you to have a certain amount of license , and we can use illustrations just as we would use modern illustrations to describe spiritual truths and to use them to illustrate the gospel . |
| 19 | Think of that story getting passed down the generations , each time they handed it on it became more colourful and exaggerated . |
| 20 | Launching a sugar plantation took a great deal of capital and the planters were always short of money ; many of them had bought estates at the high land prices of the boom , and most of them felt they owed it to themselves to live in a gentlemanly way that ignored debts . |
| 21 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |
| 22 | Great big when they you know when they brought it in you know , a great big thing you know and we said , What 's this about ? |
| 23 | Fagg and company were upset about Blenkinsop going , but since they trusted him utterly they left it to him to choose someone just like himself . |
| 24 | He could tell her that much , and he owed it to her to say something . |
| 25 | He took it upon himself to promote the idea of having a noble building for an Institute in Glasgow , and in this he was ably supported by brothers James and Edwin Docharty , sons of a famous Scottish painter , and a number of other deaf people of exceptional ability . |
| 26 | I 'm not saying that 's right , but he took it upon himself to say ‘ You 're not taking liberties with any of our lads . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ we witnessed the will and he gave it to us to look after it … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Why do you think he left it to you like that ? ’ |
| 29 | He tilted it for me to see . |