Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd arranged it months ago . |
| 2 | ‘ I wish I 'd done it years ago . ’ |
| 3 | and he 'd remembered this spiel and he 'd got it word perfect and he 's reeling it off as his one objection |
| 4 | Given Karen 's broken-nosed vowels and head-banger intonation , they would n't have understood if she 'd spelt it tor them . |
| 5 | Well , they 'd called it embezzlement but it was only taking what was his by right . |
| 6 | If he 'd left it Mrs Blakey would have made a fuss , she 'd have wanted to take his temperature , she 'd have asked questions he could n't answer . |
| 7 | So we went in the door , and just sort of said , yeah we had , we 'd kept it ages had n't we ? |
| 8 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |
| 9 | Its importance even in the Mediterranean , the sea which had given it birth , was rapidly declining by the later seventeenth century . |
| 10 | Adam had put henna on his hair and that and the sun had turned it reddish-gold . |
| 11 | He had seen it plane in behind the trees beyond a bend in the stream and had stalked and shot it while she slept . |
| 12 | For what reason the woman had done it Sally-Anne did not know . |
| 13 | He wished she had done it years ago . |
| 14 | President Bush had made it part of his re-election campaign to attacked the alleged incompetence and corruption of the Democrat-controlled Congress , which he blamed for the shortcomings of the Republican administration . |
| 15 | A year in Milan , Italy 's great fashion centre , had sounded close to perfect — at least , that was how the woman who 'd interviewed her at International Models had made it sound . |
| 16 | I remember Glyn and the kids were very young I think some of the were born in Blaenau erm and they were dismantling an old quarry at there his brother W R from Harlech had bought it usa like a machinery merchant and Glyn then borrowed a lot of tools off me for dismantling it then we started we we 'd done a lot off and on together we 'd been in er I enjoyed working with him , he was the type of man very hard worker himself but he wanted his pound of flesh . |
| 17 | Then she had thought it grief , not vulnerability . |
| 18 | She had called it maturity , this pleasantness . |
| 19 | AMSTRAD , the consumer electronics company , yesterday revealed that last year 's failed takeover bid by its chairman , Alan Sugar , had cost it £1.1 million . |
| 20 | His name was on the voters ' list as occupying Moat Hall , the small mansion Burden had found deserted , but plainly he had left it months before . |
| 21 | The long ridge to their left looked particularly bleak and lifeless , the heavy clay sitting solidly in the ridges where the plough had left it months before , no trace of last year 's crop , nothing to indicate that this was good cereal country . |
| 22 | He had memorized it years ago in the Ecalpemos epoch : ‘ The safest way to live is first , inherit money , second , be born without taste for liquor , third , have a legitimate job that keeps you busy , fourth , marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities , fifth , join some big church , sixth , do n't live too long . ’ |