Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] it [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 2 | Because I started doing it a long time ago |
| 3 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 4 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 5 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 6 | Even as a wee boy I had considered it an unfair exchange . |
| 7 | Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’ |
| 8 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 9 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 10 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 11 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 12 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
| 13 | She had thought it a foolproof notion , but had slipped up on detail , like so many . |
| 14 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
| 15 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 16 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 17 | They had patronised it the previous night , taking to heart its motto ( in Latin ) , ‘ drink yourself to hell ’ . |
| 18 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 19 | He had heard it the first time as a child , in his grandfather 's yurt on the Khirgiz , and going to Burun 's quarters had found him awake also . |
| 20 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 21 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 22 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 23 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 24 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 25 | He hoped to make it a fitting swan-song . |
| 26 | He wanted to give it a space-age look so , apparently , he went to one of the companies here which specialises in metal research for NASA . ’ |