Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How he had overcome all the complex problems of graft-rejection , septicaemia , and so on — not to mention the central problem of bestowing life — was beyond me , although I took it that fortune had favoured his researches . |
| 2 | I was so disquieted by it that I finished it that evening . |
| 3 | Not that I gave it serious thought . |
| 4 | Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage . |
| 5 | I BLOODY WELL WILL to show her , is what I thought so it was a shot of adrenalin I needed … not , I know , that she meant it that way . |
| 6 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 7 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 8 | She often shrewdly suspected that they found it hard work too , and that for all their signatures of fondest love they did not really like her ; they wanted her , they thought that she would do , but they did not really like her . |
| 9 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |
| 10 | and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go |
| 11 | It 's the new marrow and ginger , Dorothy and I chose it this afternoon . |
| 12 | The old order seemed fine to me , and I left it that way . |
| 13 | And I tried it one night , it was very yummy and very filling . |
| 14 | As a particularly honoured guest , Eliot sat at High Table , whereas others like myself were placed among the students or ‘ novices ’ , and I preferred it that way . |
| 15 | If I did it all day I would n't like it — woman 's work is never done , she 's on the go all the time — even before you go to bed , you 've still got something to do — emptying ashtrays , wash a few cups up . |
| 16 | Well ca n't , if I did it that way it would use your because it might all , take all the bubbles out ! |
| 17 | I would have said while I was putting out my washing cos I did it last night on purpose for the gas man coming in . |
| 18 | And I did n't have time to cook so he went out , cos I broke it last night , well I was alright up to lunchtime . |
| 19 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 20 | But erm most of the things that you will be de now the thing is about properties , that if you 've got a second property for example , or erm you know that 's not your primary residence , you would be liable to capital gain on a disposal , so if you 'd bought the house for ten thousand and you sold it five years later for twenty , then the gain er on that would be the twenty er the ten thousand that you 'd gained , less any indexation from nineteen eighty two , and they would then er er look at that as an allowance to use against it . |
| 21 | Moving right up to date , Andres Gomez scored a popular point for Ecuador in 1990 , while the two most recent Grand Slam debutants were Monica Seles , who first won the French title in the same year and who retained it last year , and the current men 's title holder , the American Jim Courier . |
| 22 | Already to most of the regular customers she was n't the famous Aurora Blake , but simply , Rory , and she liked it that way . |
| 23 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |
| 24 | Why , oh why , do we implore others to Honk If You Had It Last Night ? |
| 25 | and if you used it one day a week . |
| 26 | And we watched it one night , and it was Mrs Hewitt off Eastenders . |
| 27 | Carl and his brothers were playing up around Jackson , Tennessee , and we called it honky-tonk music . |
| 28 | And we did it first half , and when we were in possession , we were winning it in their sort of last third of the field , and that was giving us a great chance to create scoring chances and that 's what we 've done again today which has worked very well . |
| 29 | So if we did it this way , erm , let's pick an actual bearing , so that we get it right . |
| 30 | And they bought it last summer and they 've had trouble ever since ! |