Example sentences of "[vb past] it [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pronounced it Mehico . |
| 2 | He pronounced it Cahamarca . |
| 3 | At the end of the tunnel there was another crossroads , and as they entered it Jotan appeared , sword in hand . |
| 4 | Rolls-Royce has risen from 14th to fourth ; our participants rated it Britain 's most innovative firm , and the one with the highest-quality products . |
| 5 | While Rain used it Oliver did a few more chores in preparation for leaving the flat , finishing by packing their bags . |
| 6 | I showed it Tom next door , I says er , it , I says , he came and had a drink and to , and to see Evelyn and I says look you can tell Oliand and Dog Tongue |
| 7 | As he opened it Patrick Kelly walked inside . |
| 8 | As he opened it Schellenberg called , ‘ During the nineteen thirties Liam Devlin was one of the most notorious gunmen in the IRA . |
| 9 | The instant she touched it Luce felt the second star dip beneath the pressure of her finger . |
| 10 | As he touched it Ramlal imagined the great gleaming motor-pump that they planned to set on the river bank to irrigate their fields . |
| 11 | Maybe that 's why they enjoyed it Andrew ? |
| 12 | But er i it was hot in there which made me feel sicky , but I enjoyed it Marg ! |
| 13 | So I did — and I signed it Peter Lorre . |
| 14 | Robert 's took Wendy 's car and sold it , he pinched it Sunday afternoon |
| 15 | Oh they loved it Dennis . |
| 16 | Miller appropriately named it L. esculentum . |
| 17 | The effort was rewarded with the discovery last August of the faint smudge ( 7,000 times fainter than Pluto ) which he and Jane Luu tagged 1992QB 1 ( they later named it Smiley , after le Carré 's spy ) . |
| 18 | He set up a settlement there and named it Isabella . |
| 19 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 20 | He named it Latimeria and informed an astonished world that a creature thought to have been extinct for 70 million years was still alive . |
| 21 | As with Garling 's scheme , their proposals showed a new street between the two offices , but they sycophantically named it Clarendon Street . |
| 22 | As the Vikings rowed their warships round the north of Scotland , past Cape Wrath , their ‘ turning point ’ , down the ragged west coast of their ‘ South Land ’ , they saw Suilven as a single , dramatic pillar ; and they named it Sul Val , the pillar mountain . |
| 23 | He named it Stegman ( a steg is a male goose ) and it spent most of the summer on the reservoir but always wintered at West Birk Hatt . |
| 24 | Another , named rather despairingly by the scientist who first examined it Hallucigenia , had seven pairs of limbs beneath and seven tentacles waving above , each of which ended , apparently , with a mouth . |
| 25 | ‘ All ‘ Progressives ’ … believed in them , and called it Euthanasia ’ , characteristically exaggerating a sensible point with ‘ all ’ . |
| 26 | It became mingled with the tales of a folk who lived in the east of your world ; they called it Adam 's Paradise . ’ |
| 27 | They called it Framheim . |
| 28 | In 1293 he called it Kingston-upon-Hull . |
| 29 | Caraway is one of the most ancient of herbs , and it was valued by the Arabs and Egyptians of 5,000 years ago , who called it Karawya . |
| 30 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |