Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 2 | In Lethbridge v. Phillips , L , a celebrated miniature painter , lent a miniature to B who wished to show it to the defendant . |
| 3 | By and large , the more important a command ( importance being judged by the size of territorial authority , or , more appropriately in time of peace , by the numbers of men involved ) the more likely it was to be given to a man who had achieved it as a result of attendance at court . |
| 4 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 5 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 6 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 7 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 8 | Gilbert Scott had said that it was ‘ on the whole , my finest church ’ , but Colonel Akroyd , who had built it as the centrepiece of his remarkable village of Akroyd , had never sufficiently endowed it . |
| 9 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 10 | Clara often thought that Mrs Maugham 's attitudes towards the television typified her whole moral outlook ; before acquiring it , she had considered it infinitely vulgar and debased ; after acquiring it she considered all those without it as highbrows , intellectual snobs , or paupers , while still managing to retain her scorn for all those who had had it before the precisely tasteful , worthy and perceptive moment at which she had herself succumbed to its charms . |
| 11 | Captain Kinloch had inherited the estate of Kinloch in Strathmore from his younger brother , John , who had purchased it from the proceeds of a fortune made as a sugar planter in Jamaica , and had died in 1770 . |
| 12 | That table sold to dealer Meg Caldwell ( who had spotted it in a photograph of Gibson 's library in Artistic Houses , the great 1883 photographic compendium of notable American interiors of the day ) . |
| 13 | When these were matched and pairs of hearing signers were established , only eight pairs were found in our data where people acquiring sign before the age of 25 years had similar experience to those who had acquired it after the age of 30 years . |
| 14 | And oh , we loved the intimacy of having them so close , close enough that when I rode my bicycle for ‘ Committee ’ through the ‘ vomitarium ’ separating one wedge of audience from the next I was able to steady myself by grasping the leg of a gentleman who had stretched it over the side . |
| 15 | But nearly half of those who had used it in the past , though not using it currently , rated it as never good . |
| 16 | In the previous May Prince Rupert had captured the town for the Royalists from Colonel Dukinfield , who had held it for the Parliamentarians . |
| 17 | The same afternoon , my departed heterosexual colleague , who had bought it , and who had shown it at the conference , was on the phone : would I change my mind ? |
| 18 | By the early 1930s , it was in the hands of John Henry Lawrence , who continued to work it until the mid-1950s . |
| 19 | Similarly it would be stated in the estate agents ' particulars whether permission had been granted for a house which is up for sale to be sold to someone who wanted to use it as a second home . |
| 20 | Tolerated once again under President Anwar Sadat , who wanted to use it as a counterweight to the left , the Brotherhood had been prevented from operating openly by a clause in the Constitution which prohibited the recognition of political parties based on religion . |
| 21 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |
| 22 | The man who wanted to do it with a cigarette in his mouth . |