Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I started a similar scheme in Wellington , but then I did it at the same hour on the same day every week . |
| 32 | He said it 's my fault ; but I did it for the best . ’ |
| 33 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
| 34 | I did it in the dull knowledge that there was no way I could get up that hill . |
| 35 | I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages |
| 36 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 37 | And I I have n't I with the No it 's very simple , I left it to the select committees of the House of Commons . |
| 38 | ‘ I closed it after the first year . |
| 39 | She read it through the following morning and decided not to send it , but a small niggle of grievance stayed in her mind . |
| 40 | Now , while Anna slept , she read it for the tenth time . |
| 41 | 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 |
| 42 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
| 43 | God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch . |
| 44 | In my time you even had to survive Hansen 's unofficial scrutiny before you made it to the first team . |
| 45 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 46 | Telling the story , as she imagined it of the mad wife . |
| 47 | It decided her ; instantly she followed it to the broad Danube . |
| 48 | She heard it in the raised treble , saw it in the bright eyes . |
| 49 | and then if you needed it for the further education you could use it |
| 50 | And she frightened it into the supreme effort that carried it up , soaring and stretching , reaching beyond any achievement it knew of , until , by a hairsbreadth , it gained the crest of the fallen trunk . |
| 51 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 52 | Eventually , after appealing her case for years in the UK , she took it to the European Court which agreed that there must be equal opportunities to claim social security benefits , and that discrimination on the grounds of either sex or marital status must end . |
| 53 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 54 | It 's worth also mentioning , since you saw it in the practical class , that staphylococci in general produce this enzyme catalase all of these er lo thi this is the enzyme which breaks down hydrogen peroxide and detoxifies it . |
| 55 | To her , religion was morality and appearance , and she kept it in the same compartment of her mind as her dinner napkins . |
| 56 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
| 57 | I just wonder why you gave it in the first place . ’ |
| 58 | And it was hundred and ten if you did it over the two six |
| 59 | Well you answered it in the first , in the first answer that they got jobs they were employed er the , the rural labourers were able to , to get employment in urban areas er where wages were slightly above those wages that they could reasonably expect in agriculture and because they were actually productive making goods and services they helped the development process . |
| 60 | So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut . |