Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | How he had overcome all the complex problems of graft-rejection , septicaemia , and so on — not to mention the central problem of bestowing life — was beyond me , although I took it that fortune had favoured his researches . |
2 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
3 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
4 | If I did it all day I would n't like it — woman 's work is never done , she 's on the go all the time — even before you go to bed , you 've still got something to do — emptying ashtrays , wash a few cups up . |
5 | Well ca n't , if I did it that way it would use your because it might all , take all the bubbles out ! |
6 | I would have said while I was putting out my washing cos I did it last night on purpose for the gas man coming in . |
7 | And I did n't have time to cook so he went out , cos I broke it last night , well I was alright up to lunchtime . |
8 | When it had happened four or five times , and he had , perhaps , begun to feel some stirrings of a more disturbing passion , she had brought him up with a catalogue of the men she had had , and made it clear that — if she wanted it that way — there would be more . |
9 | Why , oh why , do we implore others to Honk If You Had It Last Night ? |
10 | and if you used it one day a week . |
11 | So if we did it this way , erm , let's pick an actual bearing , so that we get it right . |
12 | Marion had worried that , if he consumed it that afternoon , his performance would suffer that evening . |
13 | And I know I , one , it , because I felt it one day . |
14 | ‘ Only because you steered it that way , ’ Belinda said crossly . |
15 | Thus , by selecting the right ‘ task ’ , we have constrained a system we know , because we designed it that way , to be organized redundantly to give a double dissociation . |
16 | I do n't think it was just because he made it back-to-back wins , either . |
17 | He must have liked the sound it made because he gave it another couple for luck ; my courage rising , too , I gave it two more . |
18 | Since I repotted it this spring into a generous-sized pot , it has not only burgeoned but I 've also found it much easier to keep the compost just nicely moist . |
19 | She has run a Beavers Club for boys aged six and seven since she founded it 27 years ago . |
20 | Since he put it that way , like a parlour game , intended to keep him from dying of boredom in her company , which was more the effect she was used to having on men , she considered . |
21 | The Club Class lounge ( not quite ready when I viewed it last month ) will offer seclusion and extra comfort for £6 — £8 : a good way to escape school parties . |
22 | Then I tried the new needle supplied with the machine when I bought it many years ago . |
23 | I paid £130 when I bought it second hand and would like to know if this is its true value . |
24 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
25 | The black number you were wearing last night was still lying on the bathroom floor in a sodden heap when I found it this morning . ’ |
26 | But when I missed it last year because of the Euro-Asia match I was severely criticised by the chairman . ’ |
27 | I remember it as I saw it one evening , lit by the setting sun against a background of threatening clouds . |
28 | I had convinced myself the diet was necessary even though I found it tough going and particularly rough after a major operation and great weight loss . |
29 | When you did it this way you go straight across , straight across , strai , but yo your second jumps you were doing you were going there like that instead of going straight across . |
30 | The Rectory , when she reached it ten minutes later , was as silent and calm as when she had visited it with the Archdeacon on Saturday evening . |