Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I swear , I only mentioned it to one person , and he 's the most trustworthy person I 've ever met . |
| 2 | I only took it in social situations . |
| 3 | Her mother insisted the device was essential to stop her skin from stretching , but Jo merely saw it as another strategy to make her ugly . |
| 4 | And it shot it went down shot it through this barrel and inside was hydrogen gas and as it went through |
| 5 | The diocese had found him a housekeeper , a Miss Lambe , who was as small and anxious as a hamster , and who had taken a tiny , remote bedroom as her burrow , and already filled it with crocheted mats and pictures of the Royal Family . |
| 6 | No erm as I say , I never saw her in there erm I looked under the bed saw nothing was there , I just dropped it with one hand . |
| 7 | An attempt was also made to take the vacuum pump body , but its weight and bulk seemed to defeat the thief , who nevertheless hid it in nearby bushes . |
| 8 | I did n't know there were a video , I says get your he just tuned it on any channel , I says get your remote control for your telly I says and click |
| 9 | and just stuck it in little boxes , like little boxes and |
| 10 | I therefore offered Gail Rebuck my resignation on 17th March , and she finally accepted it on 19th March , asking that it should be kept confidential until 24th March , after the London Book Fair was over . |
| 11 | If people genuinely wanted social change from the educational system ( and they did ) , they generally wanted it in familiar guise . |
| 12 | She just destroyed it in one go . |
| 13 | The pool was large for a private one , lying at the bottom of a vast expanse of immaculate lawn and surrounded by a high yew hedge which effectively hid it from all directions ( unless you were on a horse or a double-decker bus ) . |
| 14 | Sir Thomas More owned it for two years , although he probably never lived there . |
| 15 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
| 16 | And er put that on and tied them back and front and up on them tied them to the sides of the coble and and usually towed it with another rowing boat . |
| 17 | I wanted to on the report you know so always had it with easy reference but |
| 18 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 19 | Much of the land is a massive plain but the mission 's route also took it across 500 miles of the arid , stony desolation of the Gobi Desert , which was inhabited by hostile nomadic Mongol tribes . |
| 20 | This not only brought it into harmony with the existing regime , but also enabled it to further dissociate itself from its Judaic origins . |
| 21 | This lay demand for teaching about contemplative spirituality together with the particular emphases of individual mystics who met and also stimulated it in fourteenth-century England , both represents , and engages with , a complex web of theological and socio-historical developments . |
| 22 | He probably did it to countless women all the time . |
| 23 | Sir David English probably disliked it for two reasons . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
| 25 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |
| 26 | Wurtz to have this paper presented to the Académie des Sciences but there was delay because Wurtz was not then an academician : J. B. A. Dumas eventually presented it on 14 June 1858 . |
| 27 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 28 | As his own name shrivelled in the heat , he dropped the envelope into the ashtray and watched it burn to a husk , then prodded it into tiny fragments with the extinguished match . |
| 29 | Wadkins got away with not the best of drives at the 18th but he had a gap , hit a five-iron to 45ft and then holed it across all sorts of slopes and burrows . |
| 30 | Ruth enquired politely , with her head in the basin as Gloria washed her hair , then rinsed it with another jug full of water . |