Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know some people say it takes time , but I think if you spend a year producing a lamb it is nice to see it sold and you do the best you can for it . |
| 2 | Heating the water , well it heated if you 'd the fire on it heated the water and then you 'd take a couple of buckets out into the bath , plug a couple of buckets in . |
| 3 | It exploded as he hit the water , sending a geyser of water and blood into the air . |
| 4 | It added that it rejected the Cairo " fait accompli " and would maintain its right " to safeguard this institution and its employees from loss " . |
| 5 | It whitened as it climbed the sky , casting a long path of broken moonlight across the river . |
| 6 | Moments later it opened and he unfastened the chain securing the two doors together and eased one of them open wide enough for him to slip inside . |
| 7 | It declared that it understood the scope of the Letters of Request which it would not execute as including Letters of Request which require a person |
| 8 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 9 | SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear . |
| 10 | It worked because it offered the combination of style and leisure which more refined sensibilities found coarsened in Brighton . |
| 11 | She 'd been trying to get rid of it and then suddenly it worked and she lost the baby . |
| 12 | So what , we 'd have to make sure it was exactly the right , the same amount and , in the same flame and the same and see how long it took and whatever took the longest went I du n no whatever ? |
| 13 | There is nothing more frustrating than finding that you ca n't make your hair look the way it did when you left the salon . ’ |
| 14 | It appeared that they encouraged the men not to live there , but to claim social security as if they were . |
| 15 | So far , the British Electric Traction Co. had held all the capital and completely controlled the expenditure and policy of the South Metropolitan undertaking , just as it had when it worked the Corporation system . |