Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | No it 's no good Dennis I heard it last week . |
2 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
3 | Good job you saw it this morning and not last night then is it ? |
4 | Having a mind untrammelled by convention he offered the names ignose or godnose , but the editor of the Biochemical Journal would not accept either of them , so because the vitamin had the same empirical formula as glycuronic acid he called it hexuronic acid , leaving its structural chemistry to be determined later . |
5 | At the beginning I found it hard work because he did not seem able to concentrate . |
6 | For another generation , this Covenant was to be held up as a model of political excellence within the Middle East , especially by the Western powers which gave it such approval but which did not have to suffer its consequences . |
7 | The architect who designed it twenty years before , Blanche reflected , had drawn inspiration from childhood memories of dog-eared graph paper — neatly ruled green squares within a darker grid of ruled squares . |
8 | However tempting it may be , try to avoid falling in to the trap of ‘ in my day we did it this way ’ or you may receive a stinging reply . |
9 | Try it for yourself : go out into a meadow , a village street , stand by the bank of a stream or on the sea shore and imagine the people who knew it 1,000 years ago . |
10 | Mahler himself conducted it this way on one occasion . ’ |
11 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
12 | Gloucestershire are soldering on without Syd … in the sunday league they made it two wins in a row with a five wicket victory over Lancashire at Old Trafford |
13 | ‘ It berates me for the way I mistreated it last night . ’ |
14 | While the report was acknowledging considerable dieback , the press release which accompanied it three days before Christmas ( a traditional moment for government departments to ‘ bury ’ embarrassing statistics ) spoke only of ‘ no sign … of the forest decline which is of such great concern in central Europe ’ . |
15 | Her long blonde hair seemed to come alive in the sunlight which gave it golden highlights . |
16 | the way she said it that day was , they 're old dogs , they do n't need the exercise and they do n't bark , that is the impression , impression I got |
17 | Roman was early ; Claudia left her office on the hour , closing the door with an irrational feeling that by the next time she saw it many things , including herself , would be irrevocably changed . |
18 | During that time we won it 3 times despite being in the second division for half that time . |
19 | About time we gave it another whirl . |
20 | our rugby action this week comes from the divisional championships … the South West are on course to win these because on Saturday at Gloucester they made it two wins out of two … this time out they beat the North by 29 points to 16 |
21 | That morning Dad told his favourite story again , the story of his drive along the coast with Kay , only this time he took it one stage further , down from the cliffs and into the house . |
22 | In fact he hit it 150 yards , the ball pitched , began to spin back and rolled towards the hole , finishing 10 feet away . |