Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I approached it the way I usually work , I 'd agree . |
| 2 | I told it the way it felt , not as it actually was . |
| 3 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 4 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
| 6 | I thought it the gesture of someone who has noticed a fellow human being about to step in something horrible but who is too polite to draw attention to the fact by seeming sorry for her . |
| 7 | I bought it the day you were paying Victoria 's bills . ’ |
| 8 | The vehicle was originally a petrol but before I bought it the engine was replaced with a Gold Seal factory rebuilt diesel unit . |
| 9 | I had no idea why Hughie McNab wanted to change my face , for I liked it the way it was . |
| 10 | ‘ I liked it the way it was . ’ |
| 11 | I liked it the week before when they did that Halloween thing |
| 12 | ‘ And I spotted it the moment we drove off from my flat , ’ Newman rapped back . |
| 13 | I said it the issue before last while reviewing Iron Man on compilation , and I 'll say it again — it 's difficult to see how the game could be any better ! |
| 14 | This dream : I had it the night after Mum-in-the-mud , the night after English Lit when I 'd sat and stared at these dead simple questions — I mean , ‘ Examine Mark Antony 's friends , Romans , Countrymen speech with a view to its effect on a modern audience ’ . |
| 15 | I had it the coat , I 've just taken my coat off |
| 16 | Now the funny thing about it , when I took metallurgy I got , I , I got all this process I knew all about it you know , and er I had it the theory explained to me then , but er I was in the Bell one day about twenty years ago and an old boy came in and I started talking to him and he says , I bet you do n't know what I am ? |
| 17 | I was bathing you , and I fetched a clean nappy , and when I unfolded it the letter dropped out , and we read it . ’ |
| 18 | Of all the commercial cities of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Genoa is the best documented , for its marvellous series of notarial registers give us almost a comprehensive view of the sophisticated world of contracts and partnerships , of commerce near and far , which made it the home of a commercial empire stretching from the western Mediterranean to the Middle East . |
| 19 | The most significant of these was Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio , which made it the responsibility of an employee to show that an employer used practices adversely affecting women and minorities without any " business necessity " . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , prices are unlikely to drop further : TransTools made the mistake of launching its first database at too low a price , which lost it the prestige Ollero feels it deserves . |
| 21 | Perched high above the famous White Cliffs , this vast fortress commands the shortest Channel crossing to the Continent — a strategic position which earned it the title ‘ The Key of England ’ . |
| 22 | He heard the calm voice , but could feel the trembling body which gave it the lie . |
| 23 | The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered . |
| 24 | Aden 's usefulness was also acknowledged in the 1962 Defence White Paper , which gave it the status of a base . |
| 25 | Opren , a drug for treating arthritis , received a product licence — which gave it the right to be marketed in the UK — in March 1980 from the then minister . |
| 26 | About 85pc of the company 's product is sold overseas , a feat which won it the Queen 's Award for Export two years ago . |
| 27 | The city 's best season was the autumn , when the leaves were turning and it was filled with a soft golden light which carried it the name of Aurea Parma . |
| 28 | When she found it the scene was stark . |
| 29 | If you If you paid it The Co was up on the Tuesday , you had to have it paid Most people tried to pay it for the Thursday and that was the turn of the leaf , on the Thursday and if you paid that then you could go straight away that day and get your new quarter stuff , for the next quarter . |
| 30 | Who called it the slug ? |