Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | Theda 's eyes remained closed as the lumbering stagecoach rumbled its way from Newark , where she had caught it outside the Saracen 's Head , to Ashby-de-la-Zouch , where it would remain for the night before proceeding to Stafford . |
2 | ‘ And when I make it to the charts , then I 'll have to admit that I will have owed it to the world 's greatest entertainer ever — Elvis the King of Rock . ’ |
3 | I eventually retrieved my five pound note that had , luckily , not made it to the duck 's mouth but had got caught on the bank . |
4 | And when the businessman er realized he very generously sold it to the Trust er I believe the same I do n't know , I believe it was the same . |
5 | Various critics have likened it to a Tesco 's superstores ! |
6 | He tells us — largely as he must have heard it from the horse 's mouth — the history of programmed machines , the development of McCarthy 's own interest in combining human common sense with the brute number-crunching force of early computers , and how this led to his own contributions , perhaps the best-known of which is the invention of LISP , now the standard programming language of artificial intelligence . |
7 | By a stroke of luck , she had spotted it on a colleague 's bookshelf before lunch . |
8 | She could , of course , have obtained it from the Bursar 's secretary but was interested to see if the question brought any reaction . |
9 | You must have read it in a woman 's magazine . ’ |
10 | It had been sold in December by McCloy to an American widow who , having changed her mind without ever living in the place , had returned it to the agent 's hands and departed to spend the summer in Sweden . |
11 | We 've described it from the offspring 's point of view . |