Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 2 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 3 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 4 | The persistent pinging assaulted her ears and she forced it into her head . |
| 5 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 6 | A drop of soap trickled into his eyes and he rubbed it only to find that he had created more pain . |
| 7 | Her hair was in her eyes and she brushed it away impatiently . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , but what they do n't say probably would n't frizzle your ears if they said it , ’ explained Lydia , not at her most lucid . |
| 9 | My father worked part-time in a dance hall and he picked up a Leeds United badge which I wore everywhere for about 6 months until I lost it : - ( ( ( ( . |
| 10 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 11 | We normally try and estimate the full year tax charge and then apply it to six months and we got it wrong . |
| 12 | Harry drew the wallet from his pocket and leafed through the pictures until he found it . |
| 13 | I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 14 | And he went to the bank and he got him three thousand pound ready and he got this beautiful car , he had n't it eighteen months before he wrapped it round a tree . |
| 15 | She , too , could be elusive , though she could not quite disguise the smile in her eyes as she said it . |
| 16 | You were glad when someone suggested that the butter or the jam should be cut up into rations even though you did see the hard selfishness in his eyes as he said it and felt sick because you knew that normally he was neither hard nor selfish . |
| 17 | He held her eyes as he said it , making her heart skid inside her , the touch of his gaze suddenly so soft , so caressing , that it suffused her entire body with a glow of sensuous pleasure . |
| 18 | To his credit , not a flicker crossed his eyes as he said it . |
| 19 | He closed his eyes as he set it down on its place , flattening it open under his left hand , and laid the index finger of his right hand upon the exposed page . |
| 20 | He nodded his thanks as he took it and flipped another cigarette butt into the toilet . |
| 21 | He brought my sister Mary a doll that closed its eyes when you laid it down . |
| 22 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 23 | However , in some of the cases that he mentioned it appears that there must have been some error , or they would have been dealt with more promptly . |
| 24 | We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . |
| 25 | Though he showed no very clear signs that he realized it , the Tsar had crossed the Rubicon , carrying the nobility with him . |
| 26 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 27 | I thought it was my spine but I could move my limbs so I thought it could n't be too bad . ’ |
| 28 | How you going to know exactly where the boundaries go or i in between some land-lock countries that you got it in the right position |
| 29 | ‘ Some lead such active lives that we found it difficult to arrange a time for interview , while others are so isolated and lonely that our interviewers felt guilty about terminating the interview and leaving them to themselves . ’ |
| 30 | — He saw his chance with those keys and he took it . |