Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I w I was wondering myself did the watchmen make up the story or did it come ? |
| 2 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 3 | Brookhouse was fortunate for , as the cloth trade went into decline , it managed to attract a new industry that enabled it to keep going for a century longer than many of its counterparts . |
| 4 | He kicked the chair aside with a violence that sent it crashing across the floor . |
| 5 | All were matted with puffs of trees ; the bright thread of a waterfall was laid over one , a snail 's silver trail ; and one was crossed by a great rift that made it appear a giant 's helter-skelter . |
| 6 | If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense ! |
| 7 | Gedge joked to music writers that he had accidentally played the original Orange Juice song at the wrong speed and thought it sounded great . |
| 8 | While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision . |
| 9 | ‘ Really opened your heart and mind and asked it to come in ? ’ |
| 10 | His nurse had brought the paper back from her lunch break and left it lying on the low coffee table during his appointments with his two previous patients . |
| 11 | ‘ Put the Bronica in my rucsac and claimed it went down with you . ' |
| 12 | Believing this to be the case , Roshanara stole the Imperial seal and used it to forge an order that proclaimed Aurangzeb 's nine-year-old youngest son to be the next Emperor in preference to the rightful heir . |
| 13 | Dr Burstead — when I gave it to him he put it in his mouth and bit it to see that it was a good 'un . |
| 14 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
| 15 | AN EMPLOYEE stole his boss 's BMW car and sold it to make up for wages he had not been paid , a court heard . |
| 16 | She took out the electric beater and arranged it to beat cream , while Mrs Palichuk watched , fascinated . |
| 17 | On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles . |
| 18 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 19 | Richens and the girl , Sabrina Ngiau , put the body in a trunk and had it driven to Kent where it was buried in a field behind his parents ' house at Borough Green Road , Ightham . |
| 20 | There were some ragged robins in a jar on the windowsill ; she put the jar on the tray and thought it looked nice . |
| 21 | Driving the Felder , I looked back towards the ranch and found it had disappeared . |
| 22 | He admitted having tried cocaine but said it did not seem to do much for him ; cocaine was in ‘ because the chicks dig it sexually ’ . |
| 23 | Olson adopted a public choice methodology but used it to produce striking anti-pluralist criticisms in the tradition of elite theory . |
| 24 | Buick also sorted out its muddled product line and drew up a marketing plan that helped it sidestep the most intensely competitive part of the American market . |
| 25 | ‘ The price of a common press was only about one-tenth of the cost of the 1,000 kg of type that kept it occupied in a busy shop … so that the master could afford to own more presses than he would normally need . ’ |
| 26 | He mounted it on his vehicle and made it work . |
| 27 | These right-angled bends in the road , whatever the date of the enclosure award may be , reflect some stage in the medieval colonisation of the parish when a new furlong , brought in from the waste perhaps in the twelfth or the thirteenth century , cut across the direct path to the next village and forced it to make a sudden turn for a few yards before resuming its onward course . |
| 28 | It was still raining , great drops spurted up whirlpools of dust , but the buildings cut off the sand and made it seem lighter . |
| 29 | They looked at the law and said it had been broken . |
| 30 | He recalled Congress for a special session and challenged it to enact the Republican programme . |