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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I flung it on the open ledger on the table .
2	Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required .
3	The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log .
4	My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’
5	Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I !
6	Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago
7	I got it with the fourth one
8	‘ I found it on the barbed wire .
9	So I moved it to the other side of the step .
10	I caught it in the other hand .
11	WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green .
12	I opposed it from the very beginning .
13	The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly .
14	I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime .
15	I hawked it around the great Guardian brains , chaps with double firsts from Oxbridge , and none could help .
16	When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight .
17	‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’
18	Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it .
19	I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner .
20	Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot .
21	Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been .
22	It required absolutely no breaking in and I wore it for the first time on a nine hour Scottish hill day during the May heatwave in complete comfort .
23	That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’
24	It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s .
25	To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of !
26	The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad .
27	So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force .
28	Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on !
29	So I took it to the British Museum , who identified it for me .
30	But somehow Sampras did reach it and Forget managed to make sure with his second volley and said later ‘ … but I 'm not quite sure how I did it with the wrong grip ’ .