Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food had become an obsession with everyone ; even the children talked and schemed about it constantly ; even the Padre , at this period , could hardly fall asleep without dreaming that ravens were coming to feed him but alas , no sooner did these winged waiters arrive with nourishment than he would wake up again . |
| 2 | Catherine sometimes lived off it alone , Christine had strange out-of-body experiences during Mass while Jacques de Vitry tells how Mary of Oignies had visionary experiences at the elevation of the Host and found rest and relief for her spirit in the presence of the sacrament . |
| 3 | talking , all messing each other bits up , you had about six spread round your room for that time , and it was so good and we got through it so quick , there were so few mistakes because you only ever had six maximum kids in your room at once at that was only because Terry offered to put on a video an and |
| 4 | I applied for it about six months ago . |
| 5 | At the conclusion of The Return of the King , the third of the three books — Tolkien always denied they were a trilogy — Frodo and his friends ride back to their lost land , to discover that ‘ they cared about it more than any other place in the world ’ , though its cottages and gardens have been laid waste and replaced by ugly new houses and factories belching smoke ; and they defeat the ruffians who had defiled it and resume the kingdom of little men . |
| 6 | They all agreed about it afterwards . |
| 7 | She read through it quickly once . |
| 8 | It would be in the nature of a test for her : if , as she claimed , she looked after her nephew as her own then she would not query the lack of financial support ; if she asked for it then it would be easier to force her to part with the boy . |
| 9 | His glance towards the file told them precisely where that letter was and McLeish asked for it promptly . |
| 10 | In the nineties , when he was at Cambridge , he had another struggle with German idealism , embodied as it then was in the English universities . |
| 11 | Mahmoud summoned an arabeah , one of the two-horse kind , and they sank into it gratefully . |
| 12 | Mrs Geary understood it quite well and disagreed with it often . |
| 13 | Then he arose and took leave of the people , weeping plenteously , and returned to the Alcazar , and betook himself to his bed , and never rose from it again ; and every day he waxed weaker and weaker , till seven days only remained of the time appointed . |
| 14 | She foraged in it immediately to see if her young supporter had been able to smuggle through a twist of tobacco . |
| 15 | She dwelt on it remarkably little , she never mentioned it to Oliver and he never said anything to her . |
| 16 | She was beginning to attract attention in dramatic roles but had never been given such an opportunity for anguished emotion , and she rose to it whole-heartedly . |
| 17 | This was obviously not a name that tripped off the tongue , but the lads rose to it manfully , while managing to weep , groan and , from the sound of it , pull out lumps of each other 's hair at the same time . |
| 18 | I lit up a Rothmans as I walked jerkily over the park , shivering , the cigarette rushed to my head and I felt better as I drew on it strongly , cupping the end in the palm of my grubby hand . |
| 19 | ’ He paused to light his Gauloise , and drew on it deeply , looking appraisingly at his brother . |
| 20 | Joey lit the joint and drew on it deeply , passing it to Lizzy . |
| 21 | The joint that Joey had rolled was passed to her and she drew on it gratefully . |
| 22 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 23 | The real point of this story is that , so far as I know , Eliot never read the Hardy Preface , because when I referred to it again about twenty-five years later , he gave the impression of not knowing about it . |
| 24 | In fact today , this afternoon we 're launching a whole new area at Alton Towers which is additional to anything before erm , Frank referred to it briefly , there 's a Runaway , so called Runaway Train ride , there 's a Ghost House and that 's all part of a new complex , which we 've got longer term plans to expand further . |
| 25 | Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty . |
| 26 | Furthermore this ‘ biothropic ’ principle , as we referred to it earlier , implies that Man is the ultimate beneficiary of this chain of events . |
| 27 | We could n't help but notice that some of the coverage following whatever it was we were witness to at UniForum referred to it as ‘ Unified Unix . ’ |
| 28 | We could n't help but notice that some of the coverage following whatever it was we were witness to at Uniforum referred to it as ‘ Unified Unix . ’ |
| 29 | I think I concentrated on it only because you got married . |
| 30 | Oh I have really , not , what I 've done is I 've taped one , one whole side and then I taped over it again by mistake |