Example sentences of "[vb past] it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The day after , Jamie came in with the wooden dish of porridge , held it out to Cameron , then twitched it away when he reached for it and turned it upside down . |
| 32 | Unless of course he turned it upside down … ! |
| 33 | Both Strauss and Feuerbach in effect fastened on the hinge of Hegel 's system — the identification of finite and Infinite Mind — and , having grasped it , turned it upside down . |
| 34 | Broken apart by force , the lid splintered , the box shed a handful of stones and a drift of dead leaves as he turned it upside down and shook it ruefully . |
| 35 | She held it away from her , against Franco 's face ; then turned it upside down : |
| 36 | He turned it upside dawn and sat on it . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | He found it on the floor by the armchair , rinsed it , poured it halffull of milk . |
| 39 | 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 |
| 40 | Some made a good job of the sandwich element , but many paid it lip service . |
| 41 | The High Court action reached its climax on 11 January when BA issued a public apology to Virgin and paid it £610,000 for damage caused by libel . |
| 42 | As he opened it Patrick Kelly walked inside . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 45 | As he opened it Schellenberg called , ‘ During the nineteen thirties Liam Devlin was one of the most notorious gunmen in the IRA . |
| 46 | The instant she touched it Luce felt the second star dip beneath the pressure of her finger . |
| 47 | As he touched it Ramlal imagined the great gleaming motor-pump that they planned to set on the river bank to irrigate their fields . |
| 48 | Penny 's eyes followed it u it darted upward — and then they became riveted . |
| 49 | The corporation chose the former ; the agency fined it $500,000 and instructed it to spend a further $200,000 in corrective advertising . |
| 50 | Maybe that 's why they enjoyed it Andrew ? |
| 51 | But er i it was hot in there which made me feel sicky , but I enjoyed it Marg ! |
| 52 | They shipped it South you see . |
| 53 | Not so long ago ( Issue 81 , to be exact ) Corky reviewed NES II , concluding it was ‘ a hotch-potch of crudely implemented game styles ’ and awarded it 48% . |
| 54 | So I did — and I signed it Peter Lorre . |
| 55 | He signed it Beachcomber . |
| 56 | Though come to think of it that 's really rather unlikely because I 'm almost certain I heard it rev up to depart very much later — some time after midnight . |
| 57 | Robert 's took Wendy 's car and sold it , he pinched it Sunday afternoon |
| 58 | Oh they loved it Dennis . |
| 59 | Erm , this is a general method spreadsheet that Harlow 's code handled it applications and department say that erm , |
| 60 | He ran forward , scuttled it under-hand between the massive , spread legs , and dived away to the right , rolling and rolling , arms protecting his head . |