Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 2 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 3 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 4 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 5 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 6 | Me Mary had a mi metal cow she milked it with a spout , she too |
| 7 | I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner . |
| 8 | Yeah , of course you saw it as a kid , did n't you ? |
| 9 | At a particularly exciting point I dropped it between the seats in front , and insisted that my parents ask the people to look for it . |
| 10 | It 's for this latter meaning I chose it as the name of my new holiday company . |
| 11 | I think it was a mongrel she got it from the animal rescue |
| 12 | So it would start the timing mechanism running at the moment it dropped it over the side . |
| 13 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 14 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 15 | One day she left it on a table in the coffee bar for two minutes while she went to get some sugar . |
| 16 | Sara had a key now and with a sense of the importance of the occasion she put it in the door and they entered the house . |
| 17 | But to Dustin 's credit he recognised it as a role in which he could immediately dissociate himself from the whole ‘ image ’ concept of acting , as well as prove that , ‘ I was a character actor , not just this nebbish kid that Nichols found . |
| 18 | With blood pouring from the bare bone he made it to a pub near Loose , Kent , where regulars called 999 . |
| 19 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 20 | Last season they won it for the second year in succession with some ease , and without their players being seriously extended . |
| 21 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 22 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 23 | In that state he gave it to the boy who set off on his half-mile walk . |
| 24 | Without a word he brought it to the table beside her bed and put it carefully down . |
| 25 | When Booth 's assistant visited the church he praised it as a ‘ great and successful attempt to adapt the aspiring and inspiriting beauty of Gothic architecture to the congregational ideal ’ . |
| 26 | Tony signalled her not to annoy Frank in case he used it as an excuse to follow Terry , but he only seemed amused . |
| 27 | Then , when the boy was n't looking in his direction he hurled it towards the pool . |
| 28 | Gray , for instance , looks a class act and although last night 's display was not his most dynamic in a green shirt he marked it with a goal of sheer quality . |
| 29 | Every weekend he gave Mossman the baker a shilling for his cart and every Saturday afternoon he pushed it from the bakery to the square in the High Street and harangued the passers-by about the stupidity of the forthcoming war . |
| 30 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |