Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 2 | Where , in competition with the liquidator of an insolvent company , a creditor of the company was successful in obtaining a renewal of the certificate ( though he had neither right to , nor possession of , the premises in respect of which the certificate was granted ) and admitted that he held it in trust for the company 's creditors , he was ordered to deliver up the certificate to the liquidator : Wm . |
| 3 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 4 | ‘ I came because I considered it to be my duty , ’ he informed her quietly . |
| 5 | happens , and somebody has to sort out why it happened and who did it to them things like that . |
| 6 | At last the little flame flared and she set it to the paper , watching the end blacken , smoulder and curl as it burned . |
| 7 | Do n't think that releasing it through your local record shop is the answer — just ask DNA what happened when they tried it with their version of Tom 's Diner shortly before the A&M rep visited the shop . |
| 8 | Dolly cackled as she dropped it into her dustpan . |
| 9 | ‘ Must n't forget that , ’ he commented as he set it on the table and , with a glow of pride , Mildred walked away arm-in-arm with the two most important people at the celebrations , to have a proper old-fashioned tea by the nearest bonfire . |
| 10 | Soon her father returned and he continued it in greater detail . |
| 11 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 12 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 13 | I blushed before I gave it to Gwenellen . |
| 14 | Which meant if I did it in year three , which I 'd liked to , then you 'd obviously equal or went into drama . |
| 15 | Cos I thought if we round it off both ways |
| 16 | When she began to unbutton his shirt he stood , paralysed , staring at the slack flesh round her stomach , he shivered and she took it for excitement ; he had dreamed about this , waiting for the moment when he would instinctively know what to do , would take control , but instead she was rubbing against him with a cool professionalism that unnerved him . |
| 17 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
| 18 | But I do n't think I ever seriously considered having Low Birk Hatt connected when they offered it to me . |
| 19 | You know I thought when she explained it to me , not like some people think it 's dirty , I thought it was wonderful . |
| 20 | Susan exclaimed in horror , but the old man laughed as he slipped it into his pocket . |
| 21 | I recoiled when she thrust it at me from a pocket . |
| 22 | As Branson would have been the first to acknowledge , common sense dictated that he avoid it at all costs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It explained mathematically why the electron had spin 1/2 , that is , why it did n't look the same if you turned it through only one complete revolution , but did if you turned it through two revolutions . |
| 25 | Ashi smiled as she knotted it at her throat . |
| 26 | You said that you got it for a bet , well a bet is usually something like swimming in the North Sea on Christmas Day , I mean something sharp and brief , while working for a degree , however brilliant you are , takes years . |
| 27 | Metternich said that he signed it to please the Tsar . |
| 28 | When reforms were proposed in Star Chamber Francis Bacon said that he considered it to be ‘ standing with all equity and reason that new orders or favours should not frustrate ancient fees ’ . |
| 29 | I said like they say it in films . |
| 30 | ‘ You are quite sure about this , Dorothy ? ’ she said as she handed it to her for her signature . |