Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | She should have done it ages ago . |
2 | ‘ If he was going to do anything , he 'd have done it months ago . |
3 | Daniel 's story certainly confirmed to me that I did the right thing — and that I should have done it years ago , if only for my children 's sake . |
4 | He wished she had done it years ago . |
5 | Yes , he thought , but I should have done it years ago . |
6 | ‘ I wish I 'd done it years ago . ’ |
7 | ‘ I 'd have done it years ago . ’ |
8 | ‘ If we had really wanted to take over control of local government we could have done it years ago , ’ he said . |
9 | erm , Mr knows when he talked about getting rid of all the a ho , our homes that of course , we 're not allowed to get rid of all of our homes , if we were the Tories would have moved it years ago . |
10 | Pupil also involved in creating small factual and/or fiction databases the same information retrieval program ( KWIRS ) as is used it resources databases . |
11 | If you 've just bought it from a shop and you 've had it years |
12 | I bet you 've had it years have n't you ? |
13 | You 've , have you had it years , the stool ? |
14 | Yeah , they 've had it excerpts of it on television have n't they ? |
15 | Oh you 've got it miles too high , yeah you 've got it miles too high , that 's why you 're getting feedback , turn it right down , right down to about number two or three or something like that |
16 | Oh you 've got it miles too high , yeah you 've got it miles too high , that 's why you 're getting feedback , turn it right down , right down to about number two or three or something like that |
17 | They 'd arranged it months ago . |
18 | He had memorized it years ago in the Ecalpemos epoch : ‘ The safest way to live is first , inherit money , second , be born without taste for liquor , third , have a legitimate job that keeps you busy , fourth , marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities , fifth , join some big church , sixth , do n't live too long . ’ |
19 | His name was on the voters ' list as occupying Moat Hall , the small mansion Burden had found deserted , but plainly he had left it months before . |
20 | The long ridge to their left looked particularly bleak and lifeless , the heavy clay sitting solidly in the ridges where the plough had left it months before , no trace of last year 's crop , nothing to indicate that this was good cereal country . |
21 | You should have taken it years ago . |
22 | So we went in the door , and just sort of said , yeah we had , we 'd kept it ages had n't we ? |