Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [conj] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1887 , however , he had tried the existing Sunderland Union and found it wanting . |
| 2 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
| 3 | He said he had given her mother one of his running tops as a present for Miss Bonham-Carter but demanded it back after he and the actress had a ‘ blazing row ’ . |
| 4 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 5 | Sure enough he won the lead , drifted up the HVS crux and vouched it a classic . |
| 6 | On the contrary , it proved , beyond any doubt , that the Templars were familiar with the Atbash Cipher and employed it in their own obscure , heterodox rites . |
| 7 | In 1861 another private company founded the Great Northern Cemetery at Colney Hatch and served it by rail from King 's Cross . |
| 8 | We made the locks at Gairlochy on Saturday evening and found it no great hardship to lay there throughout the following Sunday . |
| 9 | He found the letter of introduction to Monsieur Messidor and tossed it into the dustbin . |
| 10 | I knew absolutely nothing about the Alexander Technique and viewed it with a certain amount of scepticism , but I felt I had nothing to lose . |
| 11 | Burns was also mightily attracted to Loch Doon and immortalized it in his song ‘ Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon ’ , written for Johnson 's Museum in 1790 . |
| 12 | The Economist called it the Consumer-Credit Snowball and pronounced it well and truly rolling . |
| 13 | AN official inquiry confirmed yesterday that French journalists and lawyers had been subjected to telephone tapping under President François Mitterrand but said it had not yet determined who had ordered the bugging . |
| 14 | From his alpaca coat he whipped a medicine bottle of colourless fluid , flourished it significantly at Dr McNab and drank it all off . |
| 15 | He bought the bell in a shop in Camden Passage and hung it up , intending to ring it to summon laggard children to school . |
| 16 | The British Foreign Office analysed the constitution of North Korea and compared it with the constitutions of other communist states . |
| 17 | A postman on his morning delivery round found the empty bag on a footpath alongside the railway line between Arbour Lane and Stump Lane and handed it in to police . |
| 18 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |
| 19 | One possible explanation for China 's changed attitude is that previous protests only gave the Dalai publicity and made it look silly . |
| 20 | Naked , Lexandro knelt before the idol of Rogal Dorn and adored it … |
| 21 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 22 | THE EBDG group 's chairman , Paul Bennetts , has welcomed the Commons vote and followed it up with a plea to quickly rejoin the ERM . |
| 23 | I use a very old Gibson pickup and wired it with hardcore , heavy duty cable on a guitar built by a guy out in San Francisco called Gary Brower . |
| 24 | AN EMPLOYEE stole his boss 's BMW car and sold it to make up for wages he had not been paid , a court heard . |
| 25 | Still caught in a clench of emotion after the effort of the ceremony , he had accepted a spilling cup of whisky from Donald McLaggan and drained it as though it was milk to quench a thirst . |
| 26 | Labour demanded an immediate Commons statement from Mr Lilley and said it was outrageous that the long-term sick were being asked to pay for the Government 's economic mess . |
| 27 | He had heard that I knew Robert W. Service and felt it would be a ‘ good idea ’ if they could get Service to fly up and formally open the new building . |
| 28 | ‘ For what we are about to receive , ’ said Uncle Philip and left it at that . |
| 29 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 30 | The Lucas workers ' Centre for Alternative Industrial and Technological Systems and the North East London Polytechnic bought a secondhand Bristol bus and converted it . |