Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it [prep] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began it upon leaving Tintern , after crossing the Wye , and concluded it just as I was entering Bristol in the evening , after a ramble of four or five days , with my sister . |
| 2 | The diet was too severe and I broke it by having eggs and fish . |
| 3 | I thumped it without feeling remorse . |
| 4 | So the rise in product wages was both the clearest expression of tightening labour markets and the mechanism which prevented it from inhibiting accumulation . |
| 5 | There was fierce criticism of the government from centre-left opposition parties which accused it of aggravating conditions leading to the crisis by appeasing religious extremists . |
| 6 | The fisheries of the Suli islands between North Borneo and the Philippines , though not particularly rich in pearls , produced fine mother-of-pearl , a material keenly sought by the Chinese who used it for making inlays . |
| 7 | She took it in shaking fingers and pulled it on , immediately feeling very closed in by the visor . |
| 8 | She preferred it to preparing food , and took the greatest care to see that each piece of cutlery was exactly an inch from the edge of the snow-white damask cloth . |
| 9 | Once quoted as saying ‘ I 'm everybody 's biggest fan ’ , she proved it by including numbers from Bette Midler , Elvis Presley and Status Quo in her repertoire . |
| 10 | But after extracting the bone from the stream they cured it in jading substances . |
| 11 | He was holding a lady 's girdle and he swivelled it like moving hips . |
| 12 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 13 | He took it with trembling hands . |