Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | When she found it the scene was stark . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had not long returned to her room however , when her telephone rang , and when she answered it the sun came out . |
| 21 | She gave it the liquorice of her mouth it began to thrive |
| 22 | She gave it the steadiness of her hand |
| 23 | She said it the way judges passed sentence at Nuremberg . |
| 24 | Although even as she said it the thought rushed through her mind that that was exactly what she was doing now . |
| 25 | A small boy gave her his wooden sword and she brandished it the way he had shown her . |
| 26 | Have one foot on a ladder or the other stack stuck into the f into the into the erm face of stack and then you would struggle and work yourself underneath what w we called it the trinkling . |
| 27 | Well lost property , I already touched on , that was one of my jobs and then erm , we called it the ticket book , that was for want of some other name I suppose . |
| 28 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 29 | And we called it the man-killer because we had ridge and furrow land down there , and this darn thing they was taking , and nothing would come over the top for ages , and suddenly the whole lot would come over on top of you , of course it as well , and you had to that 's what we were doing . |
| 30 | And we called it the bull because it did n't cry , it sort of bellowed . |