Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 2 | I think Mum made it for me . |
| 3 | Well my mum got it for |
| 4 | So your mum got it from er Spectrum . |
| 5 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 6 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 7 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 8 | The See Hear programme publicised it on television . |
| 9 | But that Monday 's Panorama programme revealed it as a piece of lunacy under definite consideration . |
| 10 | Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague . |
| 11 | No , my mummy read it to me . |
| 12 | This would all have been uninhabited malarial marshland until the post-war boom made it worth draining . |
| 13 | For some reason the barman got it into his head that I was the boss of your TV station . |
| 14 | So , so possibly that ough ought to say , the their agent described it as |
| 15 | This is not to say that everyone could name the book ( one chief adviser described it as ‘ the shiny red book which the drama adviser insisted I read ’ ) , nor in some instances was its actual existence known although its influence could be recognized . |
| 16 | Impatiently , Jezrael pushed the canopy back and an icy blast of wind snatched it from her grasp . |
| 17 | A defence lawyer described it as ‘ a very tragic case ’ . |
| 18 | On 13 October , the Leader of the Opposition described it in three different ways — which is typical of him . |
| 19 | It was an uncomfortable affair , the Mayor used it as an occasion to condemn what he called the Turkish occupation of the North of the island and Douglas Hurd looked on clearly anxious that the whole thing be wound up as soon as possible . |
| 20 | But the book 's greatest association interest is that another , and greater , poet found it worth studying for its content and craftsmanship . |
| 21 | ‘ Then when Omicron upgraded it to multiuser , so did Nabb , ’ says the European financial director Barry Westbrook . |
| 22 | Faced with arguably the most reactionary piece of legislation this century , with its major implications for basic civil liberties and education , not to mention lesbians and gay men , Labour reduced it to being for or against the ‘ promotion ’ of homosexuality . |
| 23 | The President condemned it as a " taxpayer-financed incumbent protection plan " . |
| 24 | Despite a turnover of plants in the 1960s and early 1970s , employment was maintained until the mid-1970s when a CDP study estimated it at about 4800 of whom 50% were women . |
| 25 | One critic likened it to a titanic High Mass on Mars . |
| 26 | The agreement provoked an outcry in Hong Kong where both the Law Society and the local bar association condemned it as a threat to the independence of the judiciary and contrary to the 1984 Joint Declaration . |
| 27 | ‘ It was a pity the wind ruined it for everyone . ’ |
| 28 | The Countess forbade it in her will , knowing what the beginnings had been . |
| 29 | The 11th round had been scheduled to begin on Feb. 15 , 1989 , but the change-over in the US administration caused it to be postponed until June 19 , five days after the US Senate confirmed the appointment of Richard Burt ( a former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs ) as the new NST delegation leader . |
| 30 | The opposition ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party said on Jan. 21 that " instead of [ Bulgaria ] being a pillar of peace in the Balkans " the recognition turned it into an " object of suspicions and doubts by its neighbours " . |