Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once I heard her start singing the songs I knew it had to be her , ’ he says . |
| 2 | From a distance of thirty feet she heard it clawing the earth . |
| 3 | And in its attempts to obey , the Anglican branch had evolved ad hoc , adding to itself bits and pieces to meet needs it thought it perceived . |
| 4 | If conventionalism is to provide a distinct and muscular conception of law , therefore , with even remote connections to the family of popular attitudes we took it to express , then it must be strict , not soft , conventionalism . |
| 5 | Alan gave it back to him , but when he had had two mouthfuls he let it drop . |
| 6 | In some ways I thought it had been too easy for me . |
| 7 | On her way back up the stairs she struck it to make sure it had petrol . |
| 8 | It went to the trees they burned it came weeping back |
| 9 | It went to the flowers they crumpled it came weeping back |
| 10 | Since there were few Third World states in the 1960s willing to offer the USSR the military facilities it desired it had little to lose from supporting the principled opposition of the non-aligned group to foreign military bases . |
| 11 | Following its flight in the binoculars he saw it make a sweep over a rough piece of land shunned by the golf course architect , a triangle of unsuitable terrain enclosed by the 2nd , 9th and 17th holes . |