Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |
| 32 | I found it last night , parked a couple of streets away . ’ |
| 33 | I had convinced myself the diet was necessary even though I found it tough going and particularly rough after a major operation and great weight loss . |
| 34 | I changed it this morning , I 've had all them glasses out |
| 35 | Taff 's first remark was ‘ I wonder how many copped it last night , Piper ? ’ |
| 36 | Yeah received it last week Chief brought it to the meeting on Tuesday evening last week but the quickest like most national organisations somebody was sick right E B P week is the twenty first March |
| 37 | We are the artists , and if our life is a dark , jagged abstract when we prefer Impressionist pastels which dance with light , we should ask ourselves why we painted it that way . |
| 38 | Londoner Dave Parris scored it 116–113 to the challenger , the Dane Torben Hansen scored it 116–112 Eubank with Ray Francis of England making it 115–115 . |
| 39 | She she she mistimed it last night . |
| 40 | She she mistimed it last night Ann . |
| 41 | I cleared it out and relaid it this morning , fortunately . |
| 42 | Osterlind himself told it this way . |
| 43 | Marion had worried that , if he consumed it that afternoon , his performance would suffer that evening . |
| 44 | Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage . |
| 45 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 46 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 47 | He sipped at his wine again , then put it down on the arm of his chair and , keeping a finger and thumb on the stem , twisted it one way , then the other . |
| 48 | One passage , when Edward was a scholar at Battersea Grammar School , sums up the general atmosphere of 61 Shelgate Road , as the poet recalled it twenty years later : |
| 49 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 50 | Then , picking up the poker from the hearth , she banged it three times against the back of the fireplace . |
| 51 | She banged it this morning , did n't half cry ! |
| 52 | Er I think we learnt it probably in different ways , we learnt it more parrot fashion than they do today . |
| 53 | Mrs Wormwood was hooked on bingo and played it five afternoons a week . |
| 54 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 55 | I practised it enough times in the car coming here , ’ Whitlock replied with a grin . |
| 56 | R.B. But I certainly noticed it that day . |
| 57 | I noticed it this week . |
| 58 | " I 've been quite worried about you — you have n't been looking well lately , I noticed it this evening particularly when you dropped in . " |
| 59 | Baldwin confirmed it twenty years later , when he wrote to Tom Jones front the depths of his retirement : ‘ I spent a lot of my holiday in 1923 walking in the hills around Aix and thought it all out by myself . |
| 60 | She hated it that way . |