Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 2 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 3 | I was beginning to think you 'd given it a miss . ’ |
| 4 | I thought I thought we 'd given it a really good airing this |
| 5 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 6 | He 'd noticed it the night before . |
| 7 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 8 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 9 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 10 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 11 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 12 | But he 'd left it a bit late for consideration for her welfare , she thought hazily . |
| 13 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 14 | She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it . |
| 15 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 16 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 17 | This was a great pose , she 'd practised it a lot with the mirror . |
| 18 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 19 | She had heard it every year on Monaghan Day for years but she was unsure if Moran would allow any talk of the war . |
| 20 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 21 | He had heard it the first time as a child , in his grandfather 's yurt on the Khirgiz , and going to Burun 's quarters had found him awake also . |
| 22 | But the experience had been short and isolated and the moonlight had given it a sufficient touch of unreality for me to be able to fire my machine gun at everything I saw without scruple . |
| 23 | Turned out that some well-meaning wally had given it a tankful of unleaded two-star . |
| 24 | The reporter said soothingly that their reviewer , Professor Shrimp , had given it a lotta praise , and the review would probably be in the arts section , next to the film shows , on Monday . |
| 25 | Although the staff had not appreciated it , the listings of London events were quite crucial , and had given It a stranglehold on the London market , which was to be broken . |
| 26 | Jack now discovered that the Motion Picture Association of America had given it an ‘ X ’ rating and Columbia — who were to release the Movie for general distribution — had a policy at that time that they would never release an X-rated picture . |
| 27 | In her memory it was too bleak , too desolate , and that had given it an added power . |
| 28 | Since the competition took on its present format in 1989 , Slough had won it every year . |
| 29 | When the rags came out the mass of frizz made Sally screech with horror but when Louise had teased it a little with her Mason Pearson brush and a long tail comb Sally saw that the usually severe schoolgirlish cut had been transformed into a mop of pretty curls . |
| 30 | It had been Great-Aunt Alicia who had considered it a marvellous and exciting opportunity and persuaded her to accept it . |