Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe the bullet will go somewhere near the direction you aimed it . |
| 2 | From the handwriting he knew it was from his mother , and he ran to his workshop to read it . |
| 3 | When I did get to the bike I saw it was virtually in pieces and realised that Darren had been attempting the job himself . |
| 4 | To soften the blow I said it was only because I was held in such high esteem in the football world that I had to get rid of any player or , as in his case , friend , who showed any sign of being a no-hoper . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm surprised that has n't self-destructed after the damage you gave it yesterday . |
| 6 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 7 | In the story she recalled it was slides of the life of Christ which had stilled the crowd . |
| 8 | The instant she touched it Luce felt the second star dip beneath the pressure of her finger . |
| 9 | IT is billed as a comedy but director Ian Forrest admits when he first read the play he thought it ‘ very bleak with not a lot of laughs . ’ |
| 10 | In the end I bullied Andy , I said , Andy there is something fishy about this fire he said well it 's possible he said that it was erm a display model and every time anybody came in and needed a replacement part instead of sending for the part they took it out of the display model ! |
| 11 | She could scarcely breathe , let alone struggle , but when she heard the sound of someone in the undergrowth she knew it was Travis and tried to get out a warning . |
| 12 | was as perfect as for any building that he ever saw erected ; and as for the light he thought it was rather overdone than otherwise . |
| 13 | I ai n't got the key I ai n't got the key you had it |
| 14 | Parking the car they left it there and walked around to Porchester Terrace , throwing the keys to the Humber Snipe down a-drainhole . |
| 15 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 16 | When the blood hit the roof of the car I realised it was serious , ’ he said . |
| 17 | You must have heard the old story about the bucket of water ; when it was shown to the optimist he described it as being ‘ half full ’ while the pessimist said that it was ‘ half empty ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Actually when the producers sent me the script they said it was Brando 's next picture . |
| 19 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 20 | A BRIDE-to-be has been left without a wedding cake because the bakery she ordered it from went into receivership . |
| 21 | For a long time Roe has harboured a desire to do some commentating so when he had the chance at the European he took it with both hands . |
| 22 | ‘ At first I thought it was a pigeon , but as the feathers went past the window I realised it was something else . ’ |
| 23 | When I saw Maria Luisa 's distress at the window I thought it was all over for him and … and when you opened the door looking so terrible yourself I thought you had told her you would n't give her custody of the baby . |
| 24 | Leaning across the girl he placed it firmly against the pimp 's right temple . |
| 25 | In his address opening the Council he expressed it by saying that the Council would be ‘ pastoral ’ rather than dogmatic , and talking about aggiornamento and rinnovimento — terms that harked back to his youth when both were slightly suspect . |
| 26 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 27 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 28 | In this example , the assumption held good in the test we submitted it to : the experience of unemployment was broadly similar for those who were unalienated as it was for those who were alienated ; we could feel confident about averaging the two d s . |
| 29 | she said it 's hard enough for people with jobs to exist today without all this and she 's gone back to college on the flexi idea , erm , brush up her typing because she said , now whether she 's thinking of future years , she said when she left here that time , although she got that job she said it was n't easy , she said because I had no bits of paper as such , although when I did the test I passed it , she said it was n't simple , so she 's doing |
| 30 | When a policewoman got out of the vehicle he rammed it and drove straight into a wall which was demolished . |