Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation .
2 The WS286 was a nice machine that served me until September last year when , sadly , I had to replace it to make more room on my desk .
3 And in another case , decided in the same year , the Court of Appeal held that a mistress was entitled to a beneficial interest in the house she had shared with her lover even though he had left it to marry another woman .
4 If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter .
5 She had to admit it looked that way .
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