Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
2 | Terrified that it would try to escape or fly away , and not wanting to risk the Corporal 's anger , I pinned it to the ground by leaning a large stone against it . |
3 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
4 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
5 | So I chucked it in the Tyne . |
6 | I made it to the front of the clubhouse just in time to seize Jack 's bag and head for the practice ground . |
7 | I made it for a dancer ( Nijinsky ) who can soar like a spirit , but who has the strength to dance with the Wilis [ as in Giselle ] and live to dance again . ’ |
8 | Started with this device this is the thing I made it at the grammar school when I was working there . |
9 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
10 | It was only a few square feet in size and I made it into a carpet of flowers . |
11 | Maggie approached Godfrey and said over his shoulder , ‘ I made it by the pound cake method . |
12 | I made it from a pattern |
13 | I made it in the meat dish |
14 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
15 | Folding the poem , I laid it on the table . |
16 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
17 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
18 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
19 | I stuffed it inside the file , closed the briefcase and put that back in the wardrobe . |
20 | That hat has been to Buckingham Palace twice because I lent it to a friend who was invited to a later garden party . |
21 | ‘ Then I sold it for a Telecaster , which I hated , because the Tele did n't have any knobs ; it was a real simple guitar and I did n't like it , so I bought a Les Paul and I loved it . |
22 | ‘ I sold it to a tinker . |
23 | I 've got it back two or three times and then I failed it in the end . |
24 | ‘ I passed it on the way here from Bordeaux . |
25 | I rode it to the market today . ’ |
26 | I spect someone chucked it off the bridge . |
27 | That was , I got it on the coach quite a nice thing |
28 | ‘ I got it from a novel I read at school , ’ she said , looking down and shuffling her feet . |
29 | I got it from a guy called Reuben , he was living in Wales and my sister Louise bought me a Joe Johnson with Rip trucks from him for £60 . |
30 | ‘ No , I got it from an art shop . ’ |