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Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] it [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today .
2	and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this !
3	Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it .
4	‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’
5	Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack
6	I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime .
7	I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good .
8	Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’
9	It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . )
10	‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin .
11	I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’
12	" Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin .
13	She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart .
14	How you going to know exactly where the boundaries go or i in between some land-lock countries that you got it in the right position
15	The sister was n't in her office when she went back , so she left it in the middle of the desk : ‘ Miss Carolyn Tanner , care of Clare ’ .
16	You could n't face the thought of a handicapped wife so you hightailed it off the scene and out of her life .
17	He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning .
18	‘ So we kept it in the family , ’ he said .
19	Frankie warned me he was comin' down the street so we wheeled it into the pantry until he 'd gone .
20	The standard way to do this journey is by changing at Chester , but I am never averse to a trip on my favourite line , the Cambrian Coast , so we did it via the Ffestiniog and the Conway Valley line .
21	B. Hunslett claims the Service Crew were the first élitist group to travel the country with the casual look , and that they brought it to the attention of the general public .
22	‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted .
23	They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army .
24	They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem
25	The surprise here is that they did it with the best , very purest intentions , poor lambs .
26	‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’
27	Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve .
28	That he wrote it in the winter of 1940 – 41 gave an indication of the insecurity which underlay his apparent aloofness .
29	The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket .
30	Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime .