Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 3 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 4 | And I kept it the same and that 's When we bought this in nineteen fifty four , there was a lot of alterations to be done . |
| 5 | 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 … . |
| 6 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 7 | ‘ Tom and I saw it the other day , ’ she was saying . |
| 8 | Round and round , and back again , everything spins around , passing by if you missed it the first time . |
| 9 | Farnham reached their second cup final of the season — and they did it the hard way when they met Cranleigh in the semi-finals of the Class Elite Cup at the Memorial Ground on Saturday . |
| 10 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 11 | And he did it the right way , he did it the hard way , always in the first two , always having a cut at and jump , jump , jump , you know . |
| 12 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 13 | Good try — but you got it the wrong way round ! |
| 14 | And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | just as I did it the bloody filter light came on |
| 17 | That 's what I said to her when she said it the other day I said how old are you Mrs ? |
| 18 | When she did it the second time . |
| 19 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 20 | Right , which is what we got when we did it the other way . |
| 21 | Scientists did not help matters when they gave it the generic name Oreamnos , meaning ‘ mountain lamb ’ . |
| 22 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 23 | When the Goncourt brothers noted in their Journal in the 1860s that the new Paris resembled ‘ some future American Babylon ’ , they were nearer to the truth than they knew , though they got it the wrong way round , for it was in many of the cities of the United States that French influence was predominant . |
| 24 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 25 | As he said it the bellowing roar came again , right on top of them , and a long drawn out scream in Russian . |
| 26 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |