Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne was approaching her thirteenth birthday and King Edward considered it time that she and his son Prince Richard , then ten years of age , became better acquainted . |
| 2 | Youve lost it Kev . |
| 3 | When Anna brought it home — some thirty years ago it must be — the prince put it in his pocket . |
| 4 | Bruce Davidson said , and McLeish gave it thought . |
| 5 | Nassim called it amnesty . |
| 6 | Simpson called it quantum evolution and described it as one of three evolutionary modes . |
| 7 | The West 's involvement in Iraq gave it responsibility for dealing actively with the situation there , despite the mealy-mouthed excuses for allowing Saddam Hussein to survive . |
| 8 | Lord Acton gave it expression for the first time in 1887 , in a letter which Tolkien might have been interested enough to read — it is in a strongly anti-Papal context . |
| 9 | Akers called it –the largest retraining and redeployment program in IBM 's history . ’ |
| 10 | Jimmy , a world of conjecture in his face , opened his mouth , and Leith thought it time to put a stop to his speculations before he went any further . |
| 11 | Other visitors might have seen the business-card as merely a piece of litter — it could have stayed there , its drawing-pins slowly rusting , for years ; but Flaubert gave it function . |
| 12 | I needed to , for Jean-Claude remembered it word for word . |
| 13 | Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ . |