Example sentences of "[verb] it [conj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When John Bull , the great musician , asked for the reversion to the lease of Radnor Forest , the officer in attendance noted that the Queen was disposed to grant it but wanted more information first . |
| 2 | It had been sent to an isolated kibbutz with food but the Arabs stopped it and killed forty-seven Jews . |
| 3 | ‘ Get a sample for analysis , please , ’ Kathleen instructed crossly , and with economy of movement she drained the tube , refilled it and flushed several times until the water was clear , and then withdrew the tube . |
| 4 | He banned books , seized passports , expelled foreigners , legalised detention without trial though he did not use it and dismissed international protests about torture of the still-gaoled leftist ex-leaders . |
| 5 | ‘ I thoroughly enjoyed it but felt five years older after the experience . ’ |
| 6 | Despite Hojjatoleslam Rafsanjani 's assurances that the object of Karbala No 5 was not Basrah , Iran had not quite abandoned all hope of taking it and made another attempt in April , again approaching by way of Fish Lake and claiming numerous Iraqi losses . |
| 7 | He nodded his thanks as he took it and flipped another cigarette butt into the toilet . |
| 8 | I thought it might have amused X. Ray to see it and hoped one day he would , but not under the hostile circumstances in which I had the misfortune to discover myself . |
| 9 | Scott 's letter was long , rambling and almost cringing in tone ; nevertheless , Palmerston read it and replied five days later with a not unfriendly letter in his own hand . |
| 10 | She , Cecilia , though a loving , kind and humble woman , touched no one if she could help it and thought this reserve might be connected with her never having been much for sex . |