Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 2 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 3 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 4 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 5 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |
| 6 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 7 | Because of his inexperience and the firing of the two previous directors , he asked to do it under another name , not wanting to take the rap for a flop . |
| 8 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 9 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 10 | More than two-thirds of those workstations which did make it into that market were Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations . |
| 11 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 12 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 13 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 14 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
| 15 | But she had said it without much hope . |
| 16 | And from the branches of NALGO , NUPE and COHSE within Northumberland had produced it under this kind of joint format . |
| 17 | And he 'd been out shooting , but Tosh had give it to this feller |
| 18 | We felt that Navan Resources should have made earlier contact with us to let us know that there was gold here , before we had to hear it in that way , ’ Mary Catherine Heanue said . |
| 19 | and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet |
| 20 | On certain feast days , the gates of the inner sanctuary where the reliquary was kept-were opened , and it became visible , in its tabernacle behind the statue ; when they were shut , visitors had to peep through the bars : the grille was shiny where hands had gripped it on either side to get a glimpse . |
| 21 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 22 | With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts . |
| 23 | Leith , having popped along to her bedroom to take her hair out of the knot she had worn it in all day , was having serious thoughts about her actions — inviting him for a meal , for goodness ' sake ! |
| 24 | Tshisekedi , of the Democratic Union for Social Progress , had been offered the post in July but had refused it at that time [ see pp. 38323-24 ] . |
| 25 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 26 | Dalgliesh 's wife had n't wanted to be with her mother , she had wanted to be with him , had wanted it with such intensity that he had wondered afterwards whether she might have felt a premonition . |
| 27 | aha , well I 'm , I 'm doing er couple of Oxos and I had to thicken it with some self raising flour , it was alright |
| 28 | And er then we after the war was finished , we continued making them for several years , but we had to transfer it to another factory . |
| 29 | I could n't see why , because apparently the kid is looked after by a local nursemaid , who had taken it off that day to visit her own family . |
| 30 | He had to explain it to this man . |