Example sentences of "[vb past] it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises . |
| 2 | And Mr. Hollingworth Magniac , Master of the Oakley , caught it the moment he read Nora 's letter of introduction . |
| 3 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 4 | When she found it the scene was stark . |
| 5 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 6 | I told it the way it felt , not as it actually was . |
| 7 | Well it seemed it the bairn 's been in . |
| 8 | It might have been oh so different had Northern Ireland capitalised on that early lead but instead they treated it like a hot potato and the two points were not safe until the Finish referee heralded it the Finish of the game . |
| 9 | The horizon was still invisible , but above the line of mist that hid it the sky was clear , with the promise of a lovely evening . |
| 10 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 11 | When Marian uncovered it the wound was raw and open and the flesh around it inflamed . |
| 12 | The working class was hardly more impressed by the Manifesto and in the weeks that followed it the government faced an unprecedented challenge to its authority , centred on St Petersburg and Moscow . |
| 13 | He handled it the way he wanted to , without involving us or his own people . |
| 14 | That was the reason they named it the Deathbed Room . |
| 15 | The side Quiss belonged to called it Castle Doors , Ajayi 's side named it the Castle of Bequest . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , prices are unlikely to drop further : TransTools made the mistake of launching its first database at too low a price , which lost it the prestige Ollero feels it deserves . |
| 17 | As we examined it the man from behind the desk appeared soundlessly at our side . |
| 18 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 19 | Who called it the slug ? |
| 20 | Well lost property , I already touched on , that was one of my jobs and then erm , we called it the ticket book , that was for want of some other name I suppose . |
| 21 | Have one foot on a ladder or the other stack stuck into the f into the into the erm face of stack and then you would struggle and work yourself underneath what w we called it the trinkling . |
| 22 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |
| 23 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 24 | And we called it the man-killer because we had ridge and furrow land down there , and this darn thing they was taking , and nothing would come over the top for ages , and suddenly the whole lot would come over on top of you , of course it as well , and you had to that 's what we were doing . |
| 25 | They called it The Shrine — even then secular sanctity was in vogue ! |
| 26 | And we called it the bull because it did n't cry , it sort of bellowed . |
| 27 | Iain called it The Prison , and he began breaking out at weekends , finding his way back to Pinner , and Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 28 | Stephens called it the curve of least exertion , a design that was mathematically perfect for the use to which it was put . |
| 29 | Clatting the neeps and in Aberdeen they called them yowing And y We had your clatt as the yow they called it the hoe , the yow They cleared the Did that to the drill . |
| 30 | Ryan called it the Iron Maiden . |