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

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1 I found it the greatest fun .
2 I noticed it the other day when you were round then
3 I hated it the first time .
4 Erm I recorded it the other day and I did n't even know .
5 He paused a moment and then added , " You know , Sara , I meant it the other evening when I said you could ride whenever you want .
6 When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter .
7 And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it .
8 ‘ Tom and I saw it the other day , ’ she was saying .
9 And it was it was so nicely written I I saw it the other day it was no difference .
10 Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … .
11 just as I did it the bloody filter light came on
12 I had it the other day over s some occasion when I had to go on some t television and the reporter said what 's the Home Secretary gon na do about it .
13 I missed it the last time round . ’
14 Robyn strolled up the shopping mall with its glass and fancy tiles and green lush plants , which gave it the strange appearance of a tropical jungle littered with high-street stores , and considered which one of the high-class boutiques she should enter first .
15 what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny .
16 Good try — but you got it the wrong way round !
17 Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it !
18 The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written .
19 For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there .
20 Unusually for a concerto , it was sold immediately to the publisher Artaria , who issued it the following August .
21 Well you did it the other day but then you did n't have a teddy in your hand did you ?
22 When she did it the second time .
23 That 's what I said to her when she said it the other day I said how old are you Mrs ?
24 I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess .
25 Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round .
26 Round and round , and back again , everything spins around , passing by if you missed it the first time .
27 For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony .
28 When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates .
29 Not to , I know we saw it the other night did n't we ?
30 We saw it the last time in action on the weekend of the French vote on Maastricht — harnessing all our resources to serve the viewer and listener in a way no-one else can .
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