Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He fumbled and brought out his wallet from an inner pocket , opened It and passed it to her . |
| 3 | Harper spend f226 on repairing it and sold it to a finance company . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With care he lifted it and took it to the mouth of the chamber . |
| 7 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 10 | Pointing out the value of hat pins , Oliver fielded it and returned it to her with a bow . |
| 11 | I turned it and played it to the net , though it did n't come in easily . |
| 12 | ‘ There is a letter somewhere , ’ Sister Cooney searched until she found it and handed it to him . |
| 13 | At the sink he filled a cup with cold water , drank it down in one gulp , refilled it and handed it to Frankie without comment . |
| 14 | He pulled a crumpled letter out of his shirt pocket , opened it and handed it to her to read . |
| 15 | He unfolded it and handed it to George . |
| 16 | Replacing the wallet , he produced a gold pen , scribbled quickly on the back of it and handed it to Lisa . |
| 17 | I finished the joint , lit it and handed it to Carol . |
| 18 | He wrote it and handed it to me for this newsletter and I ran out of space . |
| 19 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 20 | Aye it was bought it and presented it to the island . |
| 21 | Probably when the saying went into general use , people did n't understand it and changed it to cat . |
| 22 | He purchased a stamp from the counter clerk , licked it and affixed it to the envelope . |
| 23 | She unwound it and gave it to him . |
| 24 | He took off his glove , signed it and gave it to the boy . |
| 25 | Then one day a visitor called and gave me his card , so I just took it and gave it to the master in the drawing room . |
| 26 | He took out the torn fragment with ‘ BORVEL NEM AKT printed on it and showed it to Vic . |
| 27 | George Burt acquired it and removed it to Swanage . |
| 28 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he 's starting with ex-Data General man John Doyle as vice president , sales and marketing . |
| 29 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he is starting with ex-Data General Corp staffer John Doyle as vice-president , sales and marketing . |