Example sentences of "[vb past] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When Scrooge was premiered in Birmingham last year Gloria Honeyford called it the hottest selling ticket outside of London . |
| 32 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 33 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 34 | They called it the old comedians |
| 35 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 36 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 37 | He had no doubt it was one of the verderers ' horses and that it was dying ; indeed , even as he watched it the spasmodic movements seemed weaker and less purposeful . |
| 38 | I would have understand if he 'd dived and got out their way and the wind just blew it the other end . |
| 39 | He paused a moment and then added , " You know , Sara , I meant it the other evening when I said you could ride whenever you want . |
| 40 | We made the necessary arrangements with the owner and viewed it the next day . |
| 41 | And when I saw it the other day , on my way from London 's West End , I could n't believe it . |
| 42 | ‘ Tom and I saw it the other day , ’ she was saying . |
| 43 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 44 | And it was it was so nicely written I I saw it the other day it was no difference . |
| 45 | Not to , I know we saw it the other night did n't we ? |
| 46 | And I like Lovejoy , except I 've missed but they 're repeats , but I never saw it the first time . |
| 47 | We saw it the last time in action on the weekend of the French vote on Maastricht — harnessing all our resources to serve the viewer and listener in a way no-one else can . |
| 48 | Erm you used to be able , this tea point in the office right , you saw it the fucking on |
| 49 | When we reached it the next day , we were disappointed to find that in our more prosaic age they simply open the gates . |
| 50 | A large fish on his or my line was always an occasion for excitement for Edwy and he would jump into the water with his gaff if he thought it the only way to land it . |
| 51 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |
| 52 | Looking back later , Helen recalled three things about this new life , so different from the unhappy days when she and Edward discovered that his passionate letters to her were being read by Mrs Andrews : ‘ The beauty of it delighted me , and I thought it the perfect setting for these people with their freedom of manner and thought … . |
| 53 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 54 | Looking at it , Jess thought it the grandest place she 'd ever seen . |
| 55 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 56 | And I kept it the same and that 's When we bought this in nineteen fifty four , there was a lot of alterations to be done . |
| 57 | so I actually took it the other way that , you know , do you just want a cup of tea . |
| 58 | James Brown made it the perfunctory Single Of The Week and concentrated mainly on the depth of lyrical content . |
| 59 | The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) . |
| 60 | As far as I was concerned , it made it the logical time to sell . |