Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I borrowed , I borrowed it to watch EastEnders last night . |
| 2 | The Government was claiming it was entitled to intervene under an EC directive which allowed it to impose restrictions on ‘ retransmissions ’ of broadcasts from other member states . |
| 3 | The Court , however , ruled on March 19 , 1991 , that the Commission had been within in its powers in invoking Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome , which allowed it to override government objections in such cases [ see p. 36154 ] . |
| 4 | When she received a gift from the Queensland corps back in Australia she used it to help Simon . |
| 5 | The physician Paracelsus ( 1490 — 1541 ) saw it as a ‘ magnetic ’ influence enabling people who possessed it to heal others , ‘ as perfume emanates from a lily ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ We used it to heal sword cuts in the Holy Land , ’ he said . |
| 7 | He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years . |
| 8 | The archbishop was offering Wolfgang his former post as konzertmeister , together with that of court organist , at a substantially increased salary of 500 florins a year , plus the opportunity of leave whenever he needed it to write operas elsewhere . |
| 9 | In 1884 , when he finished the first version of his set ( he revised it to form part of his Klavierübung in 1922 ) , Busoni was only eighteen , but he was always a practised composer , with an enormous quantity of piano music to his credit — indeed , he had composed five Sonatas and a host of other pieces for all sorts of forces before he was fifteen . |
| 10 | He did it to protect Lennie from being killed a frightened man , by someone like Curley . |
| 11 | Perhaps he did it to hear Mother scream . |