Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After working for a building company for two months , she was offered a permanent secretarial position there and decided to accept it because the firm was willing to be flexible about unpaid time off . |
| 2 | ‘ He started to read it as the plane took off for Haifa . |
| 3 | I went to see it but the lady running it said they could n't take me . |
| 4 | But I did make it and the colour did make a difference in a way I did n't expect . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly the Germans would accept this , they had proposed it when the Commission had by turns been denying the existence of damage in West Germany and demanding proof based on a single pollutant ( rather than multiple stress ) . |
| 6 | He wrote that it was not as he had pictured it as the weather was bitterly cold and wet with some snow . |
| 7 | When she returned to the house , she found everything as they had left it and the fire still burning . |
| 8 | I had to wreck it and the equipment sustaining it , but my limbs would not propel me forward . |
| 9 | He said the Sunday Mirror had offered to publish an apology but Elton John had rejected it because the paper had recklessly published the article . |
| 10 | One scene involved her wandering round her house in vest and pants , but Roberts refused to shoot it unless the crew took their trousers off too . |
| 11 | Police refused to touch it until the power was turned off . |