Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will inevitably be a political process but it will be a more informed political judgement , the reformers claim , than the pure bargaining process that preceded it . |
| 2 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 3 | Even with these limitations , the home-grown system brought British Gypsum benefits that made it want to take EDI much further . |
| 4 | Ruth opened her mouth to protest but closed it again . |
| 5 | Yes , I wanted to identify those moments when American literature was complicit in the fabrication of racism , but equally important , I wanted to see when literature exploded and undermined it . |
| 6 | The footman came and dismantled it for me and I brought a chair to the French windows , quite casually , and there was natural light coming in . |
| 7 | The strange boy grinned and wiped it on the seat of his shorts . |
| 8 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 9 | So the whole weight of the whole er the gear that actually sent the crusher going and made it so the jaws the swing jaw swing and all that , was er hanging on the cap you see . |
| 10 | They had a job to do and did it well . |
| 11 | Grandma laughed and called it all a waste |
| 12 | Did this er , going back to Helliwells again , repairing of the aircraft , did that cease when the war finished or did it continue for a time afterwards ? |
| 13 | A fumy miasma masked glow-globes , reddening the scene as if here was the lurid sunset of the heart of this city before final night consumed and extinguished it . |
| 14 | The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated . |
| 15 | The one she had n't seen for twelve years , had been ranting about , who never raised a finger to help and left it all to Nancy ? |
| 16 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 17 | She hated what her father did and made it her business to spy on him anyway ; a daughter 's revenge on a father who disappointed her . |
| 18 | I did n't know whether I would be bale to finish and thought it best to drop out . |
| 19 | He heard his voice shouting and lowered it carefully . |
| 20 | ‘ One man wrote or told it in a book ( the Bible ) , another in a picture . ’ |
| 21 | Emily snapped her mirror shut and replaced it in her handbag . |
| 22 | But where we might have expected a bourgeois society logically to break it up or transform it — as indeed it was to be disintegrated later — the classic phase of bourgeois society reinforced and exaggerated it . |
| 23 | Yeoman described and illustrated it in an article in the Gentleman 's Magazine in March 1748 , and is known to have erected one at Northampton . |
| 24 | What they wanted to know was the form and composition of that interest , and how the presentation of the subject matter helped or hindered it . |
| 25 | Once or twice as a hand grabbed and missed it lurched and threatened to tilt the corpse on to the crowd . |
| 26 | Mr Robinson said he appreciated the OFT had a lot to do and claimed it would be more appropriate if trading standards officers could ask for assurances . |
| 27 | A crewman on an American ship coming to Madeira saw the image floating and recovered it . |
| 28 | The cabin was surprisingly spacious , even if it did lack the little human touches that made it a home . |
| 29 | Her father squinted down at the page but she banged the book shut and slid it back on the shelf . |
| 30 | He was rarely the first to suggest what should be done ; when the others spoke he listened with half an ear , made up his mind what course to follow and followed it without hesitation as though no other were possible . |