Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was none of the violence of illness in it , no writhing or moaning , and it was never impatient or irritable when Kalchu tried to feed it or probed it for sores . |
| 2 | The philosophy of LMS was rehearsed in the Coopers & Lybrand Report ( 1988 ) and the government has now adopted it and enshrined it in legislation . |
| 3 | There was a Django Reinhardt tape playing , I know because I recorded it and sold it to Stubbly , and Ken the barman was sitting on a bar stool reading the News of the World . |
| 4 | There 's supposed to be a back fire-escape , but years ago , before I came here , someone unhooked it and took it for scrap . |
| 5 | The porter arrived with a trolley and they lowered the woman on to it and rushed her into Resuscitation . |
| 6 | Isobel read it and sent me to Professor MacFee — an English Professor — with it , and they both helped me to send it to a publisher in London . |
| 7 | The pike rushed at it , bit it and left it in disgust . |
| 8 | The dealer subsequently repaired it and advertised it for sale at £136 . |
| 9 | No 4 pilot of Jigger Green flight saw an aircraft attacking from the rear and broke into it and engaged it in combat , but as Jigger Green 4 turned to rejoin his flight he saw an aircraft tumbling at about 8,000ft . |
| 10 | He believed that his body was a good guide to his character and he punished it and indulged it by turns . |
| 11 | I had no time to steam my Christmas pudding , so I poured boiling water over it and ate it like cake . |
| 12 | Without a word she untied it and stuffed it into Werewolf 's lapel pocket until it looked like a dress handkerchief , then she moved behind him and pulled the sleeves of his jacket up to the elbows . |
| 13 | She read about it and saw it on television . |
| 14 | All these years he had had it and kept it for safety and secrecy 's sake inside a boring medical book . |
| 15 | I finished the joint , lit it and handed it to Carol . |
| 16 | Replacing the wallet , he produced a gold pen , scribbled quickly on the back of it and handed it to Lisa . |
| 17 | At the sink he filled a cup with cold water , drank it down in one gulp , refilled it and handed it to Frankie without comment . |
| 18 | He unfolded it and handed it to George . |
| 19 | Probably when the saying went into general use , people did n't understand it and changed it to cat . |
| 20 | But come the morning I do n't suppose she sprayed it , gelled it and covered it in cans full of failed meringue , which made her hands curl . |
| 21 | He found it and packed it among orange and strawberry lollies so it could be taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital to be sewed back on in a four-hour operation . |
| 22 | Overthrow made from ticking , 130cm wide , £13.50/m , wire basket with candleholders , £21 ; all from The Conran Shop ; we painted the basket red , twined ivy around it and lined it with moss , before filling with fruit . |
| 23 | The mother nudged it and licked it with concentration and deliberation . |
| 24 | In fact the defragmenter , Speedisk , is so good that Microsoft bought it and built it into MS-DOS 6 . |
| 25 | He took out the torn fragment with ‘ BORVEL NEM AKT printed on it and showed it to Vic . |
| 26 | Trent gathered it and wrapped it with ties to the boom before going forward to raise the storm jib . |
| 27 | George Burt acquired it and removed it to Swanage . |
| 28 | Somebody would 've put a match to it and set it on fire , we would have got money for going to deal with it . |
| 29 | Aye stood there and mind one halloween , the boys took it and set it in front of 's door . |
| 30 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he 's starting with ex-Data General man John Doyle as vice president , sales and marketing . |