Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 2 | I began it upon leaving Tintern , after crossing the Wye , and concluded it just as I was entering Bristol in the evening , after a ramble of four or five days , with my sister . |
| 3 | I signed it without speaking , incredibly delighted , grinning like a maniac . |
| 4 | The diet was too severe and I broke it by having eggs and fish . |
| 5 | I thought it worth checking to see just how far this had gone . |
| 6 | After seeing the RA Salas label in the last issue , I thought it worth showing my contribution to further illustrate our free subliminal advertising campaign . |
| 7 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |
| 8 | I took it for granted that I could associate with people from all walks of life , from every background . |
| 9 | Back then I think my girlfriends and I took it for granted that washing regularly was an exclusively feminine pursuit . |
| 10 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 11 | I took it into to make it bigger , right , it was mum 's , so they said well we 've got to put valuation on it to send it away , so I said well I have n't got a clue , so they wrote down a thousand pound and I thought never in all this world . |
| 12 | I thumped it without feeling remorse . |
| 13 | I did it on having testicular cancer . |
| 14 | I had it like had it like a jab like a |
| 15 | So the rise in product wages was both the clearest expression of tightening labour markets and the mechanism which prevented it from inhibiting accumulation . |
| 16 | Although there was clear authority at that time for the proposition that a man could not be guilty of the rape of a woman who lived with him outside marriage , Hale himself curtailed it by stating that cohabitation was not a defence but merely some evidence of consent . |
| 17 | ‘ There was a postwar cult ’ , wrote Mrs Le Mesurier in 1931 , ‘ which took it for granted that as the devil has all the good tunes , so youth had all the good qualities ’ , and faced with the giddy enthusiasm of people such as S. F. Hatton , Basil Henriques , James Butterworth , Herbert Casson , H. S. Bryan and Robert Baden-Powell we can perhaps see what she was driving at . |
| 18 | There was fierce criticism of the government from centre-left opposition parties which accused it of aggravating conditions leading to the crisis by appeasing religious extremists . |
| 19 | ‘ You were always flowery ; you got it from reading so much poetry . |
| 20 | The fisheries of the Suli islands between North Borneo and the Philippines , though not particularly rich in pearls , produced fine mother-of-pearl , a material keenly sought by the Chinese who used it for making inlays . |
| 21 | If Cad had become aware of him on that occasion , as she soon would , when she became their go-between , she would have taken his attachment as her due : she counted the giving of delight as nothing for she accomplished it without intending it . |
| 22 | He obtained her signature but did not explain the document to her and she signed it without understanding it . |
| 23 | Mrs er has er actually said that we should be getting some more money and then she spoilt it by saying we should be using the money we have n't got more er better use it and er maybe knocking the traffic li er islands out will save us a problem cos we 'll get a few kids knocked down and we wo n't have to bother with em . |
| 24 | A BRIDE-to-be has been left without a wedding cake because the bakery she ordered it from went into receivership . |
| 25 | Of course she started it by walking into the boudoir . |
| 26 | The pillar box was mounted on a platform about 10ft above deck and you reached it by climbing up a ladder . |
| 27 | She took it for granted that they talked about ‘ the handover ’ . |
| 28 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was , and standing aside to motion him in she said : ‘ It 's good of you to be so accommodating , Mr Dalgliesh . |
| 29 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 30 | She took it for granted that he would know who Julian was . |