Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd done it by making her question herself , she realised . |
| 2 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 3 | Ruth instinctively clasped Fand 's hand again ; she 'd taken it for granted the half-mortals would be hostile to one of Fincara 's Women . |
| 4 | That if she 'd triggered it by asking questions she might be drowned in the flood of pain that would be released ? |
| 5 | This huge increase caused concern among many deputies , but Pavlov had justified it by saying that it took account of forthcoming wholesale price rises and would actually represent a fall in real terms . |
| 6 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |
| 7 | He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support . |
| 8 | Ransome Kuti had accused it of instigating the violence in order to thwart the handover to civilian rule scheduled for January 1993 . |
| 9 | Everyone he had shown it to had described it as brilliant , and by all accounts it was ; rejection hurt . |
| 10 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 11 | If they did catch anything they had swallowed it before surfacing . |
| 12 | They described their prosperous neighbours on the Soviet as ‘ very wise and understanding ’ , not only because they had proved it by accumulating a little property , but above all because they were pismennye , or literate . |
| 13 | The officials said he had swallowed the drug in a small capsule but police had found it after forcing him to excrete it . |
| 14 | Then he had spoilt it by saying that his reasons for leaving Australia had been personal , and she had assumed he had been involved in a similar situation to that with Jennifer . |
| 15 | He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence . |
| 16 | She had taken it for granted that if Isobel accompanied Hank to the ball , it would be a kind of aunt and nephew relationship , but now she wondered . |
| 17 | All his life , he had taken it for granted that they loved each other to the exclusion of anyone else . |
| 18 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |
| 19 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I had taken it for granted that you would n't want a boring old fart like me trailing after you round Siena . ’ |
| 20 | He had taken it for granted that the other reasons did n't need to be spelled out . |
| 21 | It is difficult to understand why the judges selected his design for second prize , as the assessors had rejected it by saying that it was ‘ Too expensive and involving too great a sacrifice of property ’ , and were supported by Brunel and Burn . |
| 22 | Dick had probably intended to toss it into the quarry , but it had fallen short and the weight of the handles had kept it from slipping over . |
| 23 | The Association would have changed the day if the Minister had consulted them , but he had banned it without enabling them to change their plans . |