Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] it the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 2 | All I needed was a little bit of luck and as I pressed , dry mouthed , along the empty street it seemed I had found it The shock when I saw the two burly SPs strolling towards me was like a blow but was immediately followed by a strange calm . |
| 3 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 4 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 5 | If she had planned it the blow could not have been more accurate . |
| 6 | She wondered about the bruise on his cheek : she had noticed it the evening before when he came back from his Tuesday round . |
| 7 | The Concorde ticket to New York was where she had left it the night before . |
| 8 | A snowfall the previous night , however , had covered the tracks of Graham Little and A. Baker , who had climbed it the day before — also singing its praises for the deep caves and icicles . |
| 9 | She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it . |
| 10 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 11 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 12 | He 'd noticed it the night before . |
| 13 | All His Own Work could have been the title of Stephen Coonts ' book , instead he chose to call it The Cannibal Queen ( Century Publishing , 344pp , illus , hbk , £16.99 ) . |
| 14 | The trophy became known as the Gordon Bennett Cup , although he preferred to call it the Coupe Internationale . |