Example sentences of "[vb past] it [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seve hit a 3-wood and hooked it miles , nearly on to the first green . |
| 2 | Though it would be a case of finding someone else to go off with and not just sort of like , I mean we mentioned it years ago . |
| 3 | If someone bought me an expensive perfumed soap , I would save it — not believing I would ever have another — until I found it years later , grubby and odourless ! |
| 4 | ruined it years ago |
| 5 | Jesus believed it statements , endorsed its teaching , obeyed its commands , and set himself to fulfil the pattern of redemption which it laid down . |
| 6 | If we ignored it others would simply follow suit . ’ |
| 7 | When this book was donated I borrowed it ti read , and it was not until I came home from the final clearing-up , and found my ‘ man of the house ’ serenely reading it , that I remembered about it . |
| 8 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 9 | Erm , this is a general method spreadsheet that Harlow 's code handled it applications and department say that erm , |
| 10 | Mrs Hollidaye called it elevenses . |
| 11 | because Gavin called it Bubbles |
| 12 | ( By then he was already very ill : he called it ulcers , but it was cancer . ) |
| 13 | Then , when the fever reached it crises , Muhammad Reza apparently had a dream in which he saw Ali , the son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad and , to Shiites , the second most holy of men , hand him a bowl of liquid . |
| 14 | The Liberal Party developed its own brand of ‘ community politics ’ which brought it dividends in electoral terms in local government . |
| 15 | I did , but some students took it bits ! |
| 16 | Paradrops , skydivers and bearly made it squads |
| 17 | I made it years and years ago , when Carrie was a small girl . |
| 18 | Whether Ernie made it years ago , I should n't be surprised . |
| 19 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 20 | ‘ Then I 'll say I bought it months ago , ’ said Lydia . |
| 21 | ‘ But I did it years ago , ’ said Scarlet , beginning to feel faintly hysterical . |
| 22 | If you did it years ago they used to have a man in the lounge , only in the lounge |
| 23 | As John Milton put it centuries before : ‘ Men of most renowned vertu have sometimes by transgressing , most truly kept the law ’ ( Tetrachordon , Prose Works , iv . |
| 24 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 25 | When did you write the cheque out , you wrote it ages ago , did n't you ? |