Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Brent Walker said it expected the buyout negotiations ‘ would be successfully completed shortly ’ . |
| 32 | Tory Bill Walker said it showed the German nation in its true colours . |
| 33 | Sue said it rained on Gregory 's birthday last year . |
| 34 | While Nottinghamshire said it had messages of support from local authorities across the country , legal experts sided with the Appeal Court . |
| 35 | Typical of the electric effects are the advertising blimp — Scott wanted it to look like his memories from earliest childhood of wartime barrage balloons — and the many neon signs , particularly the giant billboard screen showing an oriental girl . |
| 36 | The DoE believed it had the decision to join the 30 per cent Club ‘ in the bag ’ and briefed journalists to that effect . |
| 37 | But John McQueen learnt it had more serious effects . |
| 38 | Mrs Geary made it sound a quite unorthodox request . |
| 39 | Marcus Browning got it to send Hereford on the way to an easy win over Halifax Town . |
| 40 | Ruth used it to stress her point . |
| 41 | Erm the point which I do n't think I a quite adequately covered , erm Alan mentioned it did you not , in relation to where you give a signal , erm th the h new Highway Code makes a slight variation in relation to where you should give the signal when you 're exiting on the roundabout . |
| 42 | It certainly is n't a new invention : Turner used it to produce some of his finest watercolour paintings in the 1880s . |
| 43 | He seems to have found it more difficult to extrapolate remote , romantic adventures from the complex , changing world of the 1920s and after than Anthony Hope found it to transport a late-Victorian man-about-town to a small Central European kingdom . |
| 44 | Even the Beatles used it to symbolize their vision of a more just world when they named their business Apple Corp . |
| 45 | As Tallis approached it whinnied loudly , then stamped and backed into the trees . |
| 46 | Hobson 's work is mainly remembered because Lenin used it to construct his own , quite distinct , theory of imperialism . |
| 47 | But the Bank of England signalled it wants to keep base rates held at 101/2 p.c . |
| 48 | Ruth willed it to metamorphose itself to arsenic . |
| 49 | Chopra watched it disappear . |
| 50 | However , when the bill reached the upper house Lord Paignton amended it to let B R bid , for two reasons . |
| 51 | In the early 80s , for example , IBM decided it needed to use its own systems better to cut administration costs , make optimum use of network and computer investments , and create a basis for future developments . |
| 52 | And so began a friendship that before Ellie knew it had become a courtship . |
| 53 | A miasma of despair rose from the cluster of black Workshops and Fenella felt it billow out and engulf them in its sick , cold desolation . |
| 54 | Chopra felt it happen . |
| 55 | Rachaela and Ruth knew it did not mean anything . |
| 56 | Nigel thought it looked very much like that of a French aristocrat , with all those curls . |
| 57 | Only when it was made into a glitzy film by Steven Spielberg did it become widely read and talked about outside feminist circles . |
| 58 | I found it interesting last night because of course my reaction to all that was imagine how Gillette did it matter ? |
| 59 | Cosla complained it had no extra resources to meet the requirement , and suggested the registers would be unworkable , raising complicated questions of liability if land was found to be contaminated . |
| 60 | The Royal Bank of Scotland said it had pulled out because it saw no continuing need for its participation . |