Example sentences of "[vb past] it [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first Enkidu was symbolized by a meteor falling from heaven , whose attraction to Gilgamesh was mysteriously " like the love of a woman " , and which , when shown to his mother she pronounced it his brother . |
| 2 | poor old Cath , she , she does n't know where she caught it , I bet she thinks she caught it her mother |
| 3 | I found it my calling to be the one in the NME office who flinched at the very sight of their wibbly-wobbly figurines and pretend four-track album which was really 12 tracks , the over-educated jessies ! |
| 4 | He was also one who believed it his role to ensure that business flourished with the least possible government intervention . |
| 5 | But you must believe that I kept you here not because I wanted to , but because I believed it my duty to those whom God ( or , well , the Company anyway ) has placed in my care . |
| 6 | Elizabeth said nothing , and Lydia judged it her turn to speak . |
| 7 | He followed Eloise out of the sitting room — she called it her boudoir , which he thought an affectation — and along the wide corridor towards the big first-floor room where the Brückners held their parties and the guests were able to admire his Russian art collection . |
| 8 | She called it her robin . |
| 9 | Indeed , as a leading member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal , he conceived it his duty to draw attention to any person or event which might bring science into disrepute . |
| 10 | Back in Pontrhydyfen she had brothers and sisters she saw it her duty to cook and wash for . |
| 11 | It was my choice and nothing was going to get in my way , dad finally saw it my way . |
| 12 | I was glad somebody else saw it my way . |
| 13 | On the one hand , as a good Irish Catholic girl married to a man she loved and who could afford to support her , she felt it her duty as well as her wish to have a child . |
| 14 | Though it was clear that Mrs Longhill could hardly bear to talk to her , her mistress felt it her duty to ask certain questions . |
| 15 | Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children . |
| 16 | Right-wing members of the Labour government like Roy Hattersley and Shirley Williams felt it their duty to show solidarity with the pickets . |
| 17 | Urged by Elaine Blond to respond on behalf of the Movement , Sigmund Gestetner , whose name was well regarded in orthodox circles , wrote to the Jewish Chronicle to deny the charges while offering gratitude to ‘ those true Christians who felt it their duty to save these persecuted Jewish children ’ . |
| 18 | Artists and intellectuals , both prominent figures and less familiar faces , felt it their duty to partake in the ‘ salvation of the nation ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ No , they felt it their duty to struggle on , ’ said Daisy , half to herself |
| 20 | Because it was quite obviously more than probable that all Ven meant by that last remark was that , having driven her to Prague , he felt it his responsibility to drive her back to Mariánské Láznë again . |
| 21 | As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class . |
| 22 | Leopold felt it his duty to further Wolfgang 's career from the start at the expense of his own . |
| 23 | When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London . |
| 24 | Father Morrow felt it his duty to try to appeal face to face to Tony 's parents to allow their son to live . |
| 25 | I went on , telling him how pitiful her situation was , if he would only go and see he would understand , and how I felt it my duty to do what I could , working myself up into a noble sweat of righteousness . |
| 26 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 27 | ‘ However , young or not , I felt it my duty to see you and explain . ’ |
| 28 | Er but since this is a relatively new area of technology , we felt it our responsibility to report this . |
| 29 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 30 | And , since all the evidence pointed to your having gone completely berserk , I thought it my duty as your host to ask one or two questions . |