Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 2 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
| 3 | In my case , my parents used it with devastating overkill . |
| 4 | I guess Joe Walsh started it , but the two drummers heard it in opposite senses — you can see we 're all laughing . |
| 5 | Thick hedgerows surrounded it on three sides . |
| 6 | Nails watched it with horrified fascination , and saw it start to slide towards him . |
| 7 | This defence caused some difficulty for the Court of Appeal when two cases raised it in quick succession in the summer and autumn of 1988 . |
| 8 | It was not long before someone threw a lump of broken paving through a window ; a dozen sets of plans followed it in short order . |
| 9 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 10 | Seven editors rejected it despite several reviewers indicating that it was well written . |
| 11 | ‘ It seems a firm of accountants hired it as temporary accommodation while their offices were being refurbished and it 's due to be removed . |
| 12 | Trees surrounded it on all sides . |
| 13 | The Sunday Times summarized it in these terms : ‘ Iraqi whirlwind campaign ends in war of desert trenches . ’ |
| 14 | This was the theme tune at last month 's revolutionary rallies , where the crowds sang it with great gusto and clapped to the jaunty rhythm of its concluding lines . |
| 15 | But after Habitat set about educating them to the advantages of the idea , the Americans adopted it with tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 16 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |
| 17 | Often only the absence of sabres and bullets differentiated it from full-scale war . |
| 18 | Of course , then these guys took it into ninth tunings and strange sixth configurations , and everybody 's got their own bag of tunings . |
| 19 | I mean , the Sex Pistols took it from The Stooges , the Stones took it from Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker , and the Beatles … |