Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd worked on it as the slide projectionist One of the reasons we were all so keen on going to the party was that Faustus was a joint production with the local girls school . |
| 2 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 3 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 4 | Nobody had known about it at the time . |
| 5 | In September 1715 , immediately after the death of Louis XIV , the Parlement of Paris had restored to it by the Regent , the Duc d'Orléans , the right of remonstrance which allowed it to impede royal legislation . |
| 6 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |
| 7 | When they dined together at the Perroquet in March 1951 , they talked among other things about ‘ British painting and what had happened to it since the high hopes of the war ’ . |
| 8 | How lovely it would be to find the garden , and see what had happened to it in the last ten years ! |
| 9 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 10 | The wind surged around the little car , streaking past across the expanse of long brown grass still flattened from the snow that had lain on it over the winter . |