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

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1 I ca n't be sure what my face looked like when I opened it and saw Maureen on the doorstep , but I imagine it must have had a grin on it from ear to ear .
2 The vital veins from her lungs — the pulmonary veins — were n't draining in to her heart , but into a chamber which bypassed it and sent blood down to the liver instead .
3 ‘ She was making herself a sandwich in the kitchen and we went in there first while she ate it and made coffee for both of us . ’
4 There was an assumption in the way she said it that brought Jessica up .
5 We photographed it and asked booksellers and sales force for their reactions .
6 My brother , sister and I used to scorn Pa 's " stop-watch slavery " as we called it and drew sketches of him whipping his work people to faster and faster production until they dropped with exhaustion .
7 His marriage was treated very briefly ; he recorded it as taking place in 1934 , and the bride as being ‘ at that time newly arrived from New Zealand and as a writer considered highly promising — alas , of how many has this been said ! ’
8 This left the chief judge with the kind of decision he did n't want , but he read it as he saw it and awarded Gold to Devitt .
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