Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title Duke of Cornwall and the estate to go with it dates back to 1337 , when Edward III created it to give his eldest son , the Black Prince , an income and somewhere to live ; it was he who decreed that it should always go to the eldest son . |
| 2 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 3 | She found it eased her aching eyes . |
| 4 | Having craned my neck in likely locations for a good many years , I finally discovered it displaying its gorgeous wings over an oil-stain beside my car . |
| 5 | He hauled a pillow out from under the bedspread and arranged it to ease his throbbing temples . |
| 6 | The new government decided it wanted its own paper and so bought the Mail , which became a bi-weekly in 1967 and went daily in 1969 . |
| 7 | They watched it chew its faultless way through several plates . |
| 8 | This is done by , when he thinks , ‘ … heard the same complaint and sat there powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 9 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 10 | He felt it easing his injured limbs and revitalising the tired sinews of his hard-muscled body . |
| 11 | Instead , they manipulated it to legitimize their own rule . |
| 12 | The exercise of skills in the workforce as a mature returner has been a rewarding experience in so many ways but I never expected it to test my personal standards or challenge my courage to stand up against what I believe is wrong . |
| 13 | Because of the wholesale integration of the theory and practice of the party into the national cultural formation , at no time did it promote its working-class constituency as an agent of social change . |
| 14 | ‘ Did it turn your mouth green ? ’ said Rosa to Caterina , ignoring her mother 's placatory offer , ‘ Or did it make your lovely lips pink ? ’ |
| 15 | Did it tumble then , did it hurt its little self ? ’ |
| 16 | Did you se , the advert with er Ronnie Barker talking to that other feller and he says oh aye he says we were going through a really bad patch me and the wife who went to marriage guidance and Ronnie Barker says oh did it do you any good ? |
| 17 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 18 | Rain pattered gently on the unlined metal above , and he hoped it drowned his panting breath . |
| 19 | Fred Rodgers said it took him 30 minutes to travel half-a-mile this morning . |
| 20 | Yesterday , Jack Dromey , national officer of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said it underlined his own belief that ‘ ministers and DML managers conspired behind Rosyth 's back to move to one dockyard by the year 2000 . |
| 21 | Objectivity Inc , Menlo Park , California , said it closed its third round of financing last week , an exercise that got started in January . |
| 22 | She said it to cover her tremulous awareness of the fact that she was still in his arms , and began gently to try and pull herself away , but he seemed strangely reluctant to let her go . |
| 23 | er you should be able to display more confidence , I mean that 's what Mike suggested it gives you more confidence to be able to do this . |
| 24 | He grasped her chin in one hand and tilted it to meet her angry eyes . |