Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I found it collected dust in a corner . |
| 2 | Sir it dealing with drainage matters , I think there 's general agreement from Yorkshire Water that the preference is the new settlement should drain should should either g be within I think I I put it detailed figures in my in my statement . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope it reminded festival goers that in many countries , freedom of expression through words , never mind a literature festival , is just a dream . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I know it brought tension between Shana and I but if you 're going to do a job properly you have to be prepared to put yourself out . |
| 5 | When I saw my picture on the front page of the local newspaper I knew it meant trouble . ’ |
| 6 | I bet it had candles there in the summer , do you think ? |
| 7 | I thought it annoyed Dad , and we 'd get kicked out . |
| 8 | So that was the last And I do n't think if he went back after that I think it had kind of frightened him , least so my father used to tell the story . |
| 9 | erm I think it made things a lot cheaper , because you had larger firms able , able to buy in bulk , and also the beginnings of the ready-made market . |
| 10 | I think it started school . |
| 11 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 12 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 13 | you know kind of there 's all this quips about sort of semen making your hair grow and all that kind of thing erm you know so erm it 's , it 's , it 's one of these things that erm sort of erm kind of people , people s slip into on the basis of you know th er as far as I could tell there was no sort of firm evidence that these blokes were gay or heterosexual apart from judgments made on their demeanour and personal appearance erm you know but er you know it gave rise to a whole range of , you know , kind of supposedly humorous talk erm in that context erm so there 's a whole range of things erm tt you know sort of talk and mannerisms and , and er , you know , kind of also gossip and suspicions about them , oh is he married if not does he have a girlfriend , if not ooh I wonder if he 's gay , you know , kind of things that we understand about people 's relationships feed into it so |
| 14 | She called it graduated henna . |
| 15 | During the day if the whistle blew , she knew it meant death — somebody 's poppa or brother , perhaps her own — in that fearsome place below the ground , the mine . |
| 16 | She knew it annoyed Mrs. Mott , which was why she had agreed so peaceably to the girls not using the main staircase and the hall of the house to get to their sessions . |
| 17 | Yet the table still looked bare , and suddenly she knew it needed flowers . |
| 18 | She saw it had wok en further into its power , for the light was visible , washing through the dark ; it sighed like the sea . |
| 19 | Aged 28 , Lesley claims not to be a natural competitor and in fact as a teenager dropped out of a PE teacher training course as she felt it made sport too serious and took the fun away . |
| 20 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 21 | If she left it unopened Rosie would face it when she got back from lunch and Rain could not be that heartless . |
| 22 | When we try burgundy our first impression is that is it a kind of claret ; but something falls short of full identification and presently we hear it called burgundy . |
| 23 | We believe it endangered lives and should be condemned . |
| 24 | British brewers do not have to declare the ingredients they use but when American consumers ran a check of Miller Lite they found it contained corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 25 | As they dismounted it crossed Floy 's mind that the longer they could delay , the better chance Fenella and Caspar had of catching them up . |
| 26 | A couple are suing their bank for half a million pounds because they say it bungled advice on small business and forced them into debt . |
| 27 | He said he was nineteen years old ; he also said he was an orphan , but they all said that , they thought it made people pay more . |
| 28 | They said it meant death . |
| 29 | They said it gave people ideas , Dorcas gathered , which were not a good thing unless they were the right kind of ideas . |
| 30 | He was dressed all in white , and his horse was white , and even his reins ; and as he passed it grew light . |