Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] it [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found something a shade patronizing in her attitude , and I interpreted it as an attempt to upstage me ; perhaps to test me , to see if I was worth playing against . |
| 2 | ‘ The dining suite is Regency and we bought it at an auction in Bournemouth , ’ says Pauline . |
| 3 | Based on their extensive studies on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers into differential use of social welfare personnel , Barker and Briggs ( 1968 ) developed a fairly sophisticated conception of how the social service team would work , and they offered it as an alternative to previously specified models of staff differentiation and utilization . |
| 4 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
| 5 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 6 | The blow to English arms was bitter , and he felt it as an insult to his own person . |
| 7 | By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park . |