Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] it [art] " in BNC.

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1 The magazine was in trouble long before David Thomas and his young guns attempted to give it a lifesaving bypass .
2 The world shortage and price rises had made it a rare delicacy for ordinary citizens , but David Laing liked to sip and swig constantly .
3 Its inhabitants liked to call it the Woldopolis and to regard it as the hub of life in that part of the East Riding .
4 Mandy Yachad and Mark Rushmere made half centuries and when both sides agreed to call it a day the Invitation XI had reached 129–1 .
5 The soldiers had found it a long and tiring period .
6 A COUNCIL has admitted it blundered by sending a former employee a letter claiming magistrates had granted it a liability order over alleged non-payment of poll tax .
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