Example sentences of "[vb past] it [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 2 | Just a moment , suspended it and then Gorbachev , his first secretary has the right to do it , disband the central committee and then what lower party er bodies do is up to them . |
| 3 | I was wondering how everything happened in the pop world and they demystified it and showed me it could be done , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Between it and Delta is another open cluster , M103 , but it is very poor and sparse , and it is hard to understand why Messier listed it and omitted NGC 663 . |
| 5 | Historic Scotland listed it as being of international importance , but the National Heritage Memorial Fund decided not to support plans to preserve it . |
| 6 | But for the framework , she no more feared nor doubted it than she did the position of the stars in the sky . |
| 7 | I doubted it because whatever the efficacy of Dr Gyggle 's treatment and however convincing his explanation of how a lonely and fucked-up boy built up a delusion both to compensate for the lack of a father and punish himself for his own Oedipal crime , I still could n't convince myself that I was entirely rid of my mage . |
| 8 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 9 | In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other . |
| 10 | But he did much more than write : he drew it and painted it . |
| 11 | I see I wa before you do that I 'll get in touch with the guy who drew it and if he if he has got an original copy he might be able to erm to er |
| 12 | I entered it because I thought it would increase my confidence ; once you 've walked down a catwalk in a swimsuit , you can face most things . |
| 13 | He granted several estates to the monastery of Lindisfarne when he entered it and was subsequently venerated as a saint , his relics being removed in the ninth century to Norham with those of St Cuthbert — and eventually to Durham . |
| 14 | He bunched it and pulled at it , finally he pleated it between his knuckles , before letting it fall back . |
| 15 | Exceptional Photoplays labelled it as ‘ an uncompromising film ’ and was quite sure it gave proof that ‘ motion picture art has by this time attained its majority ’ . |
| 16 | The 7th Earl decided in the early part of the twentieth century to install in the two rooms the panelling and so designed it that there were recesses for pictures . |
| 17 | I designed it but incorporated the customer 's ideas which is important to do as far as possible . |
| 18 | I do n't know who designed it but |
| 19 | so therefore the Irish people designed it and the Irish people gone bust and out of business |
| 20 | However , many of the jockeys described it as one of the roughest races they had ridden in . |
| 21 | He also offended cost-conscious UN bureaucrats by purchasing a large mansion in Windhoek ; a spokesman in New York described it as showing a ‘ lack of judgement ’ . |
| 22 | Although broader than the days when Lord Rothschild described it as populated entirely by men who ‘ are aged fifty-three , live in the South East , have the right accent and belong to the Reform Club ’ , it is hardly representative of the population as a whole . |
| 23 | An even less sympathetic visitor , writing in Truth , described it as ‘ very like a City Hall in oleograph ’ . |
| 24 | After the verdict on Monday , an indignant Cannes president Alain Pedretti described it as ‘ scandalous ’ . |
| 25 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 26 | In 1858 the Illustrated London News provided an illustration of it , and described it as ‘ the most substantially ’ constructed edifice in that city , partaking more of a European or Anglican character than most civil structures in Alexandria ’ . |
| 27 | When Hanns wrote an article for the London magazine Ballet Today about South African achievements , he described it as having ‘ all the qualities which a good valentine should possess … the girls flit , skip and drift hither and thither in pairs or threes , giggle coyly and point with gloved hands , while the sentimental , romantic Pierrot searches among them for his true love . |
| 28 | The sound of these great explosions was audible over a large part of the Earth 's surface : at Elsey Creek in South Australia , 3,224 kilometres from Krakatoa , the noise was loud enough to wake sleeping people , who described it as being similar to the sound of rock being blasted . |
| 29 | David Stubbs , in the reliably rude Melody Maker said Gedge sounded like ‘ an existentialist garden gnome ’ and Andy Hurt in Sounds described it as having ‘ hapless vocals , an oh-so-ordinary melody line and limp-wristed production . ’ |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |