Example sentences of "[vb past] it [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first Enkidu was symbolized by a meteor falling from heaven , whose attraction to Gilgamesh was mysteriously " like the love of a woman " , and which , when shown to his mother she pronounced it his brother . |
| 2 | poor old Cath , she , she does n't know where she caught it , I bet she thinks she caught it her mother |
| 3 | I found it my calling to be the one in the NME office who flinched at the very sight of their wibbly-wobbly figurines and pretend four-track album which was really 12 tracks , the over-educated jessies ! |
| 4 | She says , yeah , she says , she , I had a look I found it our . |
| 5 | He was also one who believed it his role to ensure that business flourished with the least possible government intervention . |
| 6 | But you must believe that I kept you here not because I wanted to , but because I believed it my duty to those whom God ( or , well , the Company anyway ) has placed in my care . |
| 7 | Elizabeth said nothing , and Lydia judged it her turn to speak . |
| 8 | He followed Eloise out of the sitting room — she called it her boudoir , which he thought an affectation — and along the wide corridor towards the big first-floor room where the Brückners held their parties and the guests were able to admire his Russian art collection . |
| 9 | She called it her robin . |
| 10 | The Lusignans called it their own royal chapel . |
| 11 | During his lifetime he brushed with death so frequently he called it his ‘ friend ’ . |
| 12 | She called it his Washington Square because he was professor of English in the university there . |
| 13 | His chief inspiration came from Christopher Wren , and by the early 1900s this influence in Lutyens 's work was paramount : he called it his ‘ Wrenaissance ’ . |
| 14 | THE entertainer Roy Castle received his OBE insignia from the Queen yesterday and called it his ‘ greatest up after the lowest down ’ . |
| 15 | The cave at the back of my tent was a good place to keep my food , and so I called it my ‘ kitchen ’ . |
| 16 | Indeed , as a leading member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal , he conceived it his duty to draw attention to any person or event which might bring science into disrepute . |
| 17 | Back in Pontrhydyfen she had brothers and sisters she saw it her duty to cook and wash for . |
| 18 | I , however , saw it my own way . |
| 19 | It was my choice and nothing was going to get in my way , dad finally saw it my way . |
| 20 | I was glad somebody else saw it my way . |
| 21 | On the one hand , as a good Irish Catholic girl married to a man she loved and who could afford to support her , she felt it her duty as well as her wish to have a child . |
| 22 | Though it was clear that Mrs Longhill could hardly bear to talk to her , her mistress felt it her duty to ask certain questions . |
| 23 | Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children . |
| 24 | Right-wing members of the Labour government like Roy Hattersley and Shirley Williams felt it their duty to show solidarity with the pickets . |
| 25 | Urged by Elaine Blond to respond on behalf of the Movement , Sigmund Gestetner , whose name was well regarded in orthodox circles , wrote to the Jewish Chronicle to deny the charges while offering gratitude to ‘ those true Christians who felt it their duty to save these persecuted Jewish children ’ . |
| 26 | Artists and intellectuals , both prominent figures and less familiar faces , felt it their duty to partake in the ‘ salvation of the nation ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ No , they felt it their duty to struggle on , ’ said Daisy , half to herself |
| 28 | As a screen Englishman , he felt it his duty to volunteer for the Royal Navy when war broke out and was amused to find that his newly-developed persona automatically promoted him to officer class . |
| 29 | Leopold felt it his duty to further Wolfgang 's career from the start at the expense of his own . |
| 30 | When he arrived back in England after five years abroad , he found his family seriously involved in the problems of the Virginia Company ; although he could have returned to Cambridge as a Fellow , or perhaps as a physician , he felt it his duty to replace his aging father on the Court of the Company during its five last unfortunate years , and lived in his parents ' house in London . |