Example sentences of "[verb] it [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was wondering how everything happened in the pop world and they demystified it and showed me it could be done , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Here and here alone the bourgeois and even more the petty bourgeois family could maintain the illusion of a harmonious , hierarchic happiness , surrounded by the material artefacts which demonstrated it and made it possible , the dream-life which found its culminating expression in the domestic ritual systematically developed for this purpose , the celebration of Christmas . |
| 3 | But he did much more than write : he drew it and painted it . |
| 4 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 5 | People walked round it , a pram wheel caught it and dragged it a little way . |
| 6 | Caroline jerked her hand back , and Nicolo caught it and held it in his . |
| 7 | Ronni caught it and threw it back at him , impatient of his criticism . |
| 8 | And why should the palm be so thickly clotted , almost as if another 's hand had lifted it and smeared it into the blood at the throat ? |
| 9 | ‘ As you can see , I 've simplified it and brought it up to date … |
| 10 | I went up to the union and reported it and asked them to do something about it . |
| 11 | We not merely retained it but expanded it , and it has fully justified our confidence . |
| 12 | He had skirted it and approached them from behind . |
| 13 | He believed that his body was a good guide to his character and he punished it and indulged it by turns . |
| 14 | She sucked her teeth , took another ticket down at random , glanced at it , crumpled it and tossed it into the disposal by her left knee . |
| 15 | Who he was she could n't say , because the room was too dark , but he must have left the front door open and the wind must have caught it and made it shut with a crash . |
| 16 | he 's took it and sold it , yeah |
| 17 | It 's important to establish the invariable habit of going through replies to all your searches ( the same principle applies to the practical enquiries and requisitions on title ) , ticking each one after you have considered it and found it satisfactory ; if the contrary is the case , or if , for example , some information is disclosed that ought to be passed on to your client , mark it accordingly , and thereafter tick it when you " ve dealt suitably with the item . |
| 18 | Which brought her back to the sack and to the Friar who had carried it and left it in their care . |
| 19 | They sucked it and licked it down to size . |
| 20 | I 'd seen somebody taking it so I tried it and liked it . |
| 21 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 22 | ‘ Or somebody found it and took it away . ’ |
| 23 | In the feeble light his hand searched for the bolt , found it and shot it home . |
| 24 | He found it and rang it , giving exactly the same sort of excuse as Eleanor 's . |
| 25 | ‘ There is a letter somewhere , ’ Sister Cooney searched until she found it and handed it to him . |
| 26 | He found it and packed it among orange and strawberry lollies so it could be taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital to be sewed back on in a four-hour operation . |
| 27 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 28 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 29 | Carrie wondered if she believed it and decided she was n't quite sure . |
| 30 | There was none of the violence of illness in it , no writhing or moaning , and it was never impatient or irritable when Kalchu tried to feed it or probed it for sores . |