Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 2 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 3 | I noticed it the other day when you were round then |
| 4 | I hated it the first time . |
| 5 | Erm I recorded it the other day and I did n't even know . |
| 6 | He paused a moment and then added , " You know , Sara , I meant it the other evening when I said you could ride whenever you want . |
| 7 | And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it . |
| 8 | ‘ Tom and I saw it the other day , ’ she was saying . |
| 9 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 10 | And it was it was so nicely written I I saw it the other day it was no difference . |
| 11 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 12 | And I kept it the same and that 's When we bought this in nineteen fifty four , there was a lot of alterations to be done . |
| 13 | So as soon as it began to move back , I gave it the biggest push I could manage . |
| 14 | just as I did it the bloody filter light came on |
| 15 | I had it the other day over s some occasion when I had to go on some t television and the reporter said what 's the Home Secretary gon na do about it . |
| 16 | I missed it the last time round . ’ |
| 17 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 18 | Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 . |
| 19 | Robyn strolled up the shopping mall with its glass and fancy tiles and green lush plants , which gave it the strange appearance of a tropical jungle littered with high-street stores , and considered which one of the high-class boutiques she should enter first . |
| 20 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 21 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 22 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 23 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 24 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 25 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 26 | Erm you used to be able , this tea point in the office right , you saw it the fucking on |
| 27 | Unusually for a concerto , it was sold immediately to the publisher Artaria , who issued it the following August . |
| 28 | She liked it the best of all her books . |
| 29 | Well you did it the other day but then you did n't have a teddy in your hand did you ? |
| 30 | When she did it the second time . |