Example sentences of "[vb past] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christina cringed as Susanna pronounced it the American way . |
| 2 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 3 | ‘ I knew Faye had some complications and needed a nurse — Tom mentioned it the other day — but I had no idea you were a sort of watchdog as well . |
| 4 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 5 | Having said she would never teach she found it the only way to keep up her Mathematics and bring up a family , so via an evening Technical College Lectureship she slipped into school teaching and has enjoyed it ! |
| 6 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 7 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 8 | Changed it the other way round . |
| 9 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 10 | He received it the next morning when he took his usual letter to the stage door . |
| 11 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 12 | I noticed it the other day when you were round then |
| 13 | He let the minion struggle and kick for a little while , then hoisted it back out , shook it , and turned it the right way up again . |
| 14 | I hated it the first time . |
| 15 | Showed it the following week . |
| 16 | Because I 've had it for four years now and I 'm you know a woman touched it the other day and she got really paranoid . |
| 17 | But I still enjoyed it the second time . |
| 18 | The king personally rewarded him with the Victorian Order , fourth class , but broke off relations when the disgruntled recipient of the decoration returned it the following day . |
| 19 | The Americans went nuts over it and awarded it the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film . |
| 20 | Fortunately the judges agreed , and awarded it the first prize . |
| 21 | Erm I recorded it the other day and I did n't even know . |
| 22 | Somebody who lives nearby , came in and examined it the other day , and that 's all I know . |
| 23 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 24 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 25 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 26 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |
| 27 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 28 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 29 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 30 | Twenty-five years later , when Thérèse and Léonie at last began to talk to each other about that time , they called it the odd summer . |