Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did it believe in hopes expressed by Saudi Arabia that the six countries involved could become militarily self-sufficient , since it characterised all these states as ‘ military clients of Western states ’ . |
| 2 | Jezrael could hear the wires that crowned it humming with power . |
| 3 | Women have grabbed rock by the balls and made it squeal in agony . |
| 4 | This series took four British families , all with the surname Smith , and used it to look at aspects of life in contemporary Britain . |
| 5 | In the face of a severe crisis relating to international reserves the government devalued the currency twice , in February and in March , and allowed it to float in September . |
| 6 | Getting alarmed I pushed my hand under his jacket and withdrew it covered with blood . |
| 7 | In his book , Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain , published in 1724 , the English author Daniel Defoe wrote of having seen the horn and heard it sounded at Coilsfield House ( later rebuilt and named Montgomerie House ) to call the servants to their duties . |
| 8 | When she laughed and giggled it stretched from ear to ear , but half an hour after leaving her you found yourself remembering Harvey 's claim that she was the most beautiful girl in the world . |
| 9 | He sat and watched it fall into folds across his knee and the dense depth of its scarlet pile was more delightful than wine or the blood from roasting beef . |
| 10 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note . |
| 11 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note |
| 12 | Pike the ditcher and Watkin the dung-collector had , in the absence of any relatives , sewn the body into a canvas sack , placed it on a wooden trellis and brought it to lie in front of the chancel screen . |
| 13 | In a single movement , he had snatched a vase from the mantelpiece and brought it smashing against Ben 's temple , as neat as the stone through the French window . |
| 14 | The wind took it , and tore it fluttering from Ace 's fingers . |
| 15 | She bought a large eight-bedroomed house in Leicester , and had it converted into flats , which were then made available to homeless families . |
| 16 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 17 | By s.24 goods are stolen for the purposes of handling if any one or four conditions is fulfilled : ( a ) they have been stolen contrary to s.1 ; ( b ) they have been obtained by deception contrary to s.15 ; ( c ) they have been obtained by blackmail contrary to s.21 ; ( d ) they have been subject to an act done in a foreign country which was both a crime in that country and had it occurred in England , would have been theft , obtaining by deception , or blackmail in this country . |
| 18 | Richens and the girl , Sabrina Ngiau , put the body in a trunk and had it driven to Kent where it was buried in a field behind his parents ' house at Borough Green Road , Ightham . |
| 19 | His supporters hijacked an internal Soviet flight on Nov. 8 and forced it to fly to Ankara , in an attempt to publicize their cause . |
| 20 | This time I used a grey Ingres paper and left it exposed in parts of the sky , as well as using it as an undertone to modify the colour put over it elsewhere . |