Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was none of the violence of illness in it , no writhing or moaning , and it was never impatient or irritable when Kalchu tried to feed it or probed it for sores . |
| 2 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 3 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 4 | Yeah but I thought in the case of like Petula Clark and Lulu it was because they won it that got them into the scene sort of thing . |
| 5 | The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can . |
| 6 | So what was it that pushed them into a far more extreme position towards Mary than that of 1558 ? |
| 7 | The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter . |
| 8 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 9 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
| 10 | tortoise thing with a lid on then he opened it and filled it with |
| 11 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 12 | The philosophy of LMS was rehearsed in the Coopers & Lybrand Report ( 1988 ) and the government has now adopted it and enshrined it in legislation . |
| 13 | He fumbled and brought out his wallet from an inner pocket , opened It and passed it to her . |
| 14 | Harper spend f226 on repairing it and sold it to a finance company . |
| 15 | There was a Django Reinhardt tape playing , I know because I recorded it and sold it to Stubbly , and Ken the barman was sitting on a bar stool reading the News of the World . |
| 16 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 17 | De Valois saw it and accepted it for the repertory . |
| 18 | Carolyn had had a couple of goes at it and made it into — well , more of a privet dodo than a hen . |
| 19 | With care he lifted it and took it to the mouth of the chamber . |
| 20 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 21 | There 's supposed to be a back fire-escape , but years ago , before I came here , someone unhooked it and took it for scrap . |
| 22 | She picked up the box with the frog-magician in it and wedged it into her cape pocket . |
| 23 | The porter arrived with a trolley and they lowered the woman on to it and rushed her into Resuscitation . |
| 24 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 25 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 26 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 27 | Isobel read it and sent me to Professor MacFee — an English Professor — with it , and they both helped me to send it to a publisher in London . |
| 28 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 29 | He snatched it from my hand , read it and returned it without looking at me . |
| 30 | Pointing out the value of hat pins , Oliver fielded it and returned it to her with a bow . |