Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Church appeared no longer to be the guiding force that she believed it once had been , and felt it ought still to be . |
| 2 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 3 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 4 | About this time I had , by a certain wicked attempt — for I had a bold heart which rather put me upon courting than avoiding danger — set a hornet 's nest about my ears so I thought it better to remove myself to France and be a little more discreet in my armours . |
| 5 | When I intervened in the right hon. Gentleman 's speech he replied in such confusion that I thought it best to give him time to reflect , and to ask my question again later . |
| 6 | But Dominic carried a donor card so we knew it was what he wanted , ’ said his mother Janice . |
| 7 | There is every indication that he believed it to be true , whether it was or not . |
| 8 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 9 | *John wound up the toy car so he wanted it to go . |
| 10 | And then they could n't sing a ballad in the key that they recorded it because of some studio trick ! |
| 11 | If you do give your heroine this skill you will have to some extent to prove to your readers that she had it . |
| 12 | There was a small gap in the fence that was unaffected by the pile-up and we approached it at a forty-five degree angle . |
| 13 | The persistent pinging assaulted her ears and she forced it into her head . |
| 14 | Somebody give us a card and we sent it away and we got a |
| 15 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 16 | Fred cut into the pieces of meat with a vengeance , fighting the urge to shake the chattering Bessie Chandler by the scruff of her neck until she snuffed it . |
| 17 | Notts have a terrific record at home under Mick Walker and they kept it going . |
| 18 | As with the girl who died earlier in the year , this beaker of solution was in her bedroom and she mistook it for a bedtime drink . |
| 19 | Pyatt has outstanding hand speed and he demonstrated it to full effect against an opponent who was clearly out of his depth . |
| 20 | A drop of soap trickled into his eyes and he rubbed it only to find that he had created more pain . |
| 21 | Her hair was in her eyes and she brushed it away impatiently . |
| 22 | It is not enough to think of a murder and who committed it and why what is not immediately obvious , and then to take some setting that seems interesting and simply introduce chunks of description from time to time . |
| 23 | ‘ That was my toast soldier and you took it , ’ said Jacqueline . |
| 24 | It was his first real tragedy and he took it very badly . |
| 25 | I was wearing I had the , the stethoscope behind my neck and I took it off for something , I was holding it up to try and get a better |
| 26 | That bird up there with like some thing hanging out of its arse and then something hanging out of its mouth and I thought it was like |
| 27 | Some water dripped from the tip of her nose into her mouth and she wiped it away with one swift movement . |
| 28 | I did show it to one of the department and he read it through … |
| 29 | The chambermaid brought his tea and he drank it avidly . |
| 30 | I made the tea and she drank it , then she continued her story . |