Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |
| 2 | There was a sensuousness about it that filled him with a desire to run shouting across it , to roll in it , to bury his face in it and sniff life out of its roots , to draw up his childhood from the green stems , to lie supine and shade his eyes from the sun and dream himself back into nature . |
| 3 | Yeah but I thought in the case of like Petula Clark and Lulu it was because they won it that got them into the scene sort of thing . |
| 4 | The rain had a fine and penetrating quality about it that reminded him of the oil you squirt from an aerosol can . |
| 5 | So what was it that pushed them into a far more extreme position towards Mary than that of 1558 ? |
| 6 | The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter . |
| 7 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 8 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
| 9 | Finally , she snatched up the envelope from the table where she 'd left it and carried it to the one window that might , if she were lucky , catch a vagrant breeze from the river a block away . |
| 10 | Harper spend f226 on repairing it and sold it to a finance company . |
| 11 | After its discovery in 1873 , the Tongue had found its way into the hands of a treasure-hunter , who had kept quiet about it and sold it to a London dealer , who in turn had sold it to an American collector , who had lent it to an exhibition in Philadelphia in 1922 — which latter appearance had provided the clues , sixty-five years later , for a detective-story-like investigation on the part of Theodore Kemp of the Ashmolean Museum — a man who now lay dead in the mortuary at the Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 12 | De Valois saw it and accepted it for the repertory . |
| 13 | With care he lifted it and took it to the mouth of the chamber . |
| 14 | He looked round for the phone , found it and took it to the woman , laying it in her lap . |
| 15 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 16 | Pinched some of my old Dad 's plum brandy and soaked raisins in it and left 'em in the clearing . |
| 17 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
| 18 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 19 | I turned it and played it to the net , though it did n't come in easily . |
| 20 | she 's walking the through it and stuffed them in the ground ! |
| 21 | Whenever there has been a whiff of financial scandal in the past , the Opposition , very much to their credit , have raised it and brought it before the public , and there has been a great hue and cry about it . |
| 22 | Then I met up with Alan and , and he read though it and challenged me on a few things and we changed one or two bits , but I 've got my sort of target set out . |
| 23 | When they reached the next chamber he extinguished it and exchanged it for the torch . |
| 24 | She sucked her teeth , took another ticket down at random , glanced at it , crumpled it and tossed it into the disposal by her left knee . |
| 25 | Aye it was bought it and presented it to the island . |
| 26 | He pushed her back into the room and , seizing the case , opened it and upended it over the bed . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose he could have folded it and used it as a spill to get a light from the pilot on the gas water heater . ’ |
| 28 | She folded it and stood it in the comer behind the music centre . |
| 29 | I was just walking back past the big , black marble vault belonging to the Chatwin family when somebody dodged out from behind it and grabbed me from the back . |
| 30 | He purchased a stamp from the counter clerk , licked it and affixed it to the envelope . |