Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 2 | Where Ann wrote it for last year , for my ri |
| 3 | She knew she had nothing to feel guilty about despite her attraction to Luke , having resisted him , but his relationship with Cavell was none of her business really , and whether Luke finally confessed that he had intended to be unfaithful or Cavell discovered it for herself , she did n't want to have to feel responsible for any eventual break-up . |
| 4 | I do n't know if I did it for Dad or Dad did it for me . |
| 5 | King believed that Kandyans regarded it as ‘ an act of daring , largely partaking the character of a dangerous field sport ’ . |
| 6 | And that Ivor switched it for another , less valuable guinea ? ’ |
| 7 | Only 13% ( 26 ) spoke to their spouse about it , and fewer than 10% mentioned it to another family member or friend . |
| 8 | The saxophonist 's widow refused to lie in Ken and Rhoda 's bed , so Ken offered it to Bernard and Ellen : they took the offer , rightly , as a gesture of approval , and the four of them carried it one very early morning from No. 97 to No. 93 . |
| 9 | In spite of what Eddie said , it 's possible that Angy gave it to Delia but if Eddie 's right , then it looks very much as if Delia — or someone else — took it . |
| 10 | It was already half full with stagnant rain water , so Mildred filled it to the brim , then carried it back to the yard window-sill , collecting her broomstick on the way . |
| 11 | Immediately , he began trying to predict Simon 's responses , to work out ways of soothing him , of flattering him , of making him laugh , anything that might defuse that aggression or at least make sure that Simon directed it at someone else . |
| 12 | But note that Wordsworth classified it as ‘ A poem of the Imagination ’ in collected editions . |
| 13 | Alice Fell was such a stumbling-block that Wordsworth withdrew it from the 1820 edition of his poems . |
| 14 | The trouble with Cabinet was not that Harold ran it through little cabals , but that there was no focal point of decision-making at all . |
| 15 | ‘ So Ballater sold it to you ? ’ he said ‘ I see , ’ He added , I think the kitten had burnt its tongue . ’ |
| 16 | So obviously you just write down that Rita did it on the 10th . |
| 17 | Haydn was ill and could not complete his commission in time , so Mozart finished it for him . |
| 18 | It is evident that Lakatos took it for granted that physics constitutes the paradigm of rationality and good science . |
| 19 | The darkness was so complete that Pliny compared it with a sealed room in which the lamp had been put out . |
| 20 | Brideshead Revisited ( 1945 ) is a prime example , and , although Waugh wrote it in a spirit of retrospection , he also added in a preface of 1959 , ‘ It was impossible to foresee , in the Spring of 1944 , the present cult of the English country house . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps it is time to ask ourselves whether the notion of treatment by opposites , which has held the stage for so long , is indeed the false path that Hahnemann considered it to be . |
| 22 | The only difference was that Francis did it with more charm . |
| 23 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 24 | The probability is that a large part , even most , of the work was done in the madhouse , and that Smart finished it after his release . |
| 25 | This became extended through the process of emulation , by which lower groups in the hierarchy sought to copy the higher groups , a strategy so fundamental that Veblen believed it to be the foundation for the concept of private property ( 1970 : 33–40 ) . |
| 26 | The trouble was that Baldwin did it by the methods he had forsworn and that his words and his style of appeal had become alienated front his actions . |
| 27 | But I got twe so that Mark blamed it on me but I 'd sussed it , as soon as starts tramping |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , you lovely feller , not 'alf I would n't , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I was too weak to eat the cheese roll , so Bessie ate it for me . ’ |
| 29 | The dominant factor is that A thought it worth his while to make the promise to B in order that he should feel more certain that B would do the thing bargained for , and we can see no reason in general why A , having got what he wanted , should be allowed to evade his promise . |
| 30 | However , no sooner was the intrigue launched than Baldwin killed it by the simple expedient of deciding to remain in office and meet Parliament . |