Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I thought it required more teachers caring about their subjects as much as he obviously did .
2 Says the star : ‘ They did n't bat an eyelid when I told them I wanted it delivered 5,000 miles away in London .
3 Among those offering concrete commitments were National Westminster Bank , which said it took environmental issues into account when considering loan requests [ see ED 58 ] , and the Austin Reed clothing company , which claims to encourage its suppliers to meet environmental standards .
4 Her confessor having ordered her to use an ordinary discipline and leave off her iron chain , she made it knot three rows and wore it round her body …
5 It was not that she was parsimonious or disapproving of alcohol , simply that she knew it had adverse side-effects on Liza and , not being much of a drinker herself , she only kept a small supply in the house .
6 I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered .
7 I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ?
8 We had it built two years ago .
9 He discovered it has two electrons that could be described as ready and waiting to form chemical bonds .
10 By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling .
11 Oh it said in the , in the book when I read about it , it said it had green flowers , you say is that green flowers
12 It said it expects initial products to be high-end servers and so it turned out in most cases .
13 Sometimes he said it contained eighty-one Communists , sometimes fifty-seven , sometimes ‘ a lot ’ .
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