Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caspar and Fenella had to explain it four times , and a fifth for Flaherty , who was still recovering from his overindulgence in the matter of the mulled wine . |
| 2 | The board 's stewards refused to sanction it last week , but had a change of mind after a two-hour hearing with promoter Frank Warren , managers Barry Hearn and Jack Trickett , and Hide . |
| 3 | On behalf of his wife , Sergeant Troy decided to have it one evening at the end of August , in the great barn . |
| 4 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 5 | So low was Deems 's voice that his auditors had to give it close attention . |
| 6 | For phenomenalists such as Ayer tended to take it that observation statements report the nature of the observer 's sensory states . |
| 7 | Death rates increased all the time , as hormonally charged adolescents flocked to give it heavy Brando on Honda C50s . |