Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father , a greengrocer , had stabled the pony behind the shop in the middle of town , fed it on sprouts and boiled potatoes and encouraged Nutty to turn it into a show-jumper . |
| 2 | Hall implied that adolescence covered the years from sexual maturity to the end of physical growth in a person 's twenties , which was not dissimilar to the early nineteenth-century concept of youth , but all those who followed Hall equated it with the teen years . |
| 3 | Those plans fell through but , undaunted , he spent £6,000 converting it into a home for his wife , Louise . |
| 4 | This special five-year chart shows a more balanced result than our two-month version ( see page 67 ) ; here longer term , established titles mix it with the ‘ Big Names ’ . |
| 5 | Why did Granddad put it in a dump or of the pocket ? |
| 6 | A : Did Arthur make it to the bank ? |
| 7 | Did CSM discuss it at the November meeting ? |
| 8 | This statement was approved by the law officers , who very properly insisted that Profumo should also be advised by his own independent solicitor ( a partner in the well-known firm of Theodore Goddard ) who , having read the statement , also approved it and recommended Profumo to make it to the House . |
| 9 | Colleagues at his firm , Red & White Taxis , said Ashiq dismissed it as a hazard of the job . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's no doubt I had chances to nail it in the last set , but you 've got to hand it to Dennis . |
| 11 | He designed and built it specially for his wife because she 'd always wanted to live by the river , but she only had time to enjoy it for a few months before she died . |
| 12 | In truth through the years Tiller Girls danced in ill-fitting shoes and had bunions to prove it for the rest of their lives . |