Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver gunned the motor but that only threw off sprays of fine snow , and the motor howled until I thought it would burst . |
| 2 | One of his hands closing over the slender curve of her hip made her lower body stir involuntarily , the increasing urgency of the gyrating movement explicit , both statement and summons , and Maria heard the harsh breath he drew as he absorbed it . |
| 3 | Helping herself to what looked like a gin and tonic — and was a very strong one , she found when she tasted it — as well as a tiny chicken and mushroom vol-au-vent , she was about to make a beeline for an unoccupied chair in the corner when a stranger spoke beside her . |
| 4 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |
| 5 | Her voice trembled as she said it . |
| 6 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 7 | ‘ I came because I considered it to be my duty , ’ he informed her quietly . |
| 8 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 9 | ‘ I rescued your other shoe , ’ he added as he brought it out from behind his back . |
| 10 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 11 | Now I protested that it was n't properly decorated yet and that I 'd rather he came when I had it looking its best . |
| 12 | I remember the shock-horror and accusations of non-femininity that my first one provoked when I wore it to push the pram up Edinburgh 's steep streets in 1967 . |
| 13 | The parcel exploded when she opened it , singeing her head and arms . |
| 14 | I 'd know where I lived if I saw it , but just at the moment I ca n't remember the name of the street it 's in , and the policeman would n't know if I do n't have the address . |
| 15 | ‘ I got a call from a cop who asked if I owned it . |
| 16 | The door opened before they reached it . |
| 17 | The manse door opened before I reached it . |
| 18 | Do n't think that releasing it through your local record shop is the answer — just ask DNA what happened when they tried it with their version of Tom 's Diner shortly before the A&M rep visited the shop . |
| 19 | Yeah I do n't suppose that happened when I pulled it out . |
| 20 | Graham frowned as he passed it , partly at its loud white-lettered tyres and obtrusive styling , but partly because it reminded him of something ; something to do with Slater , with Sara even . |
| 21 | Newman frowned as he worked it out . |
| 22 | At the sound of footsteps the Captain looked around , and frowned when he saw it was Mum bearing down on him . |
| 23 | Eventually when the letter came in its blue envelope with the pious SAG printed across the seal , the hands so firm holding a gun or tool shook as he took it . |
| 24 | His hands shook as he held it . |
| 25 | He yawned as he did it , and banged about a bit , so I felt that I had to go . |
| 26 | Dolly cackled as she dropped it into her dustpan . |
| 27 | She sighed when she set it back in its saucer — and sighed again with pleasure as she bent over her poached egg . |
| 28 | His eyes shone as he opened it and took out a gold watch covered in jewels . |
| 29 | Maxim wondered why he was n't more shocked at the instinctive distrust implied by that decision , and sighed as he realised it was because he 'd been nearly six months in the atmosphere of Whitehall . |
| 30 | She sighed as she realised it was a Californian bedroom , wooden floors and a window the length of one wall overlooking trees and a river , on a hilltop . |