Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council emphasised and re-emphasised it with particular skill and persistence . |
| 2 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 3 | The taxpayer received it on 8 December and it was lodged in the High Court on 15 January 1991 . |
| 4 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 5 | He endowed it with vast lands and rights , including tithes of silver and other rights of tribute from the Slavs . |
| 6 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |
| 7 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 8 | Then she picked up the tall glass she had carried down with her , and which was now empty , walked sedately to the water 's edge , filled it with ice-cold water and returned to see that he had not shifted . |
| 9 | She filled it with sweet oils and bubbles , shrugged her clothes off , and got in . |
| 10 | Then she went to the sink and filled it with lukewarm water and made the water frothy with soap-powder . |
| 11 | The diocese had found him a housekeeper , a Miss Lambe , who was as small and anxious as a hamster , and who had taken a tiny , remote bedroom as her burrow , and already filled it with crocheted mats and pictures of the Royal Family . |
| 12 | I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky . |
| 13 | He fetched it without another word and watched her while she folded sheets of newspaper into firelighters in the thrifty way Gran had taught her . |
| 14 | When Robert II of Flanders called at St Thierry with his sister , widow of Cnut IV of Denmark , the abbot Rudolph cleansed the whole building , hung it with rich hangings and tapestries , filled it with carvings , sculptures , and other precious objects , to turn his simple Benedictine house into a suitable environment for the reception of so magnificent a prince . |
| 15 | So they achieved it in one state and then they moved on to another and started a whole new campaign . |
| 16 | She swallowed it in one gulp and started to cough . |
| 17 | I swallowed it in one gulp and almost died of coughing . |
| 18 | Near the waterline , the rushing waters have polished the schist to gunmetal , and carved it into fantastic flutes and chambers . |
| 19 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 20 | The General Strike in no way deflected it from that course and it is difficult to see that event as an historical watershed in the evolution of trade union policies and attitudes . |
| 21 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 22 | This was the theme tune at last month 's revolutionary rallies , where the crowds sang it with great gusto and clapped to the jaunty rhythm of its concluding lines . |
| 23 | He sent it to several publishers and recommended that I accept an offer from Norton , a fairly up-market American book firm . |
| 24 | Mind you I think if you sent it without any postage and packaging charges I 'm pretty sure that they would er , they would send you the goods because they would n't want to loose a good customer . |
| 25 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 26 | Carrying it over , she placed it on Tweed 's desk , switched it on , found a music programme , kept it on low volume and sat down close to Newman . |
| 27 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 28 | Of course , then these guys took it into ninth tunings and strange sixth configurations , and everybody 's got their own bag of tunings . |
| 29 | They all took it for white wine and discovered their mistake . |
| 30 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |