Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [vb past] it " in BNC.

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1 Each meeting ends with the moneymen all saying things like I 'm in or I want in on this or You got it or Let's do it .
2 It was risky and she knew it .
3 But the UK had never had a product like this and they needed it , ’ says John Bartic , visiting professor at Strathclyde University and joint chief executive of Bartle Bogle Hegarty ( BBH ) , the agency appointed to handle the launch and subsequent roll-out .
4 Alec Home obtained this and himself read it out .
5 Mr Broadhurst was very particular about this and he took it extremely seriously .
6 Re remote control yes , well my son has one of those he has an electric garage door on his house , and a copper frisked him before he went in last season cos he , he 's a younger bloke and er he said what 's this and he pulled it out of his pocket , he said it 's to open my garage door with he said what do you think it is a death ray or something yeah .
7 she told them that , that 's mine , she told them that I did n't think much of this and I thought it was a rip off
8 I knew this and I knew it was a weakness in him and I should not put up with it .
9 I felt my hand touch something feathery and I pulled it out to see what it was .
10 At the weekend I received a letter and a petition from a young girl called Frances aged nine years old and it brought it home to me that it is n't an adult centred er erm issue , that it 's one for everybody who lives in Leicestershire .
11 It came free and he threw it at me .
12 The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour .
13 ‘ His knee is slightly unstable and we thought it best he saw the surgeon who performed the operation on him . ’
14 ‘ His knee is slightly unstable and we thought it best he saw the surgeon who performed the operation . ’
15 Because one of the typewriters is broken and she blamed it on me .
16 Just now the autumnal coolth was tonic and he breathed it in like drinking draughts of fresh milk , then took dippersful of water from the butt at the side of the house and sluiced his head into activity .
17 Even at that early stage in her career , Roddick knew she was different and she cultivated it .
18 Discipline was rigid and we respected it , but resented it too , because of a particular juvenile arrogance that must have been founded on the knowledge that the world was changing a lot more than they realised , and it was for us that it was changing .
19 Oh aye , it is painful but I thought it 's not going away so I 'd better go and see about it .
20 It was bought by Charles University in 1762 and they had it rebuilt by A. Prachner .
21 The spring rain soaked him but it was warm and he licked it as it trickled down his lip .
22 We 'd always get so much and we used it in rotation .
23 He was deadly serious and I knew it .
24 Feargal 's blue eyes were impossibly bland and she found it very hard to keep her face straight .
25 Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that .
26 Other factors included the fact that the liberal-nationalist unification movement looked to Prussia as the natural leader of Germany : the Frankfurt Assembly offered the King of Prussia the imperial crown in 1849 but he rejected it , disliking their excessive parliamentary vision for the new Germany .
27 I am wet but utterly unharmed and I enjoyed it . ’
28 ‘ You 'll only waste it , ’ she said , and she was right and he knew it .
29 Tom equalled the championship record of 276 with a 70 and I thought it would be a long time before it would be broken .
30 Yet for a long time the Cult of Pleasure was respectable and none connected it with the hidden worship of Chaos .
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