Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | They did it last spring when it was warm , when it got warm too early |
| 33 | They said it meant death . |
| 34 | They said it gave people ideas , Dorcas gathered , which were not a good thing unless they were the right kind of ideas . |
| 35 | He was dressed all in white , and his horse was white , and even his reins ; and as he passed it grew light . |
| 36 | He expected it to become toll free after 15 to 20 years . |
| 37 | And erm for summer then we put some here and some seaweed and it made it look kind of queer like but Mr Davis our art teacher just thought it would make it look more interesting . |
| 38 | The hound grunted with pain and he let it fall limp at his feet , a small dark trickle of blood flowing from one nostril . |
| 39 | It hit it hit Ian Stringfellow last week and caused Nicky Platten now to pull out at the last minute last night . |
| 40 | The archbishop was offering Wolfgang his former post as konzertmeister , together with that of court organist , at a substantially increased salary of 500 florins a year , plus the opportunity of leave whenever he needed it to write operas elsewhere . |
| 41 | Noah 's statement and the manner in which he delivered it took Arnold Peck aback , but he said haughtily , ‘ I 've never heard of you , sir . ’ |
| 42 | Such as the time when the very inebriated gentleman , at 2 a.m. , wanted to know how to stop his budgie falling off its perch , because he thought it had cramp in its legs ! |
| 43 | He thought it wasted time to have official committees pre-processing options before they came before ministerial groups . |
| 44 | He thought it meant breasts . |
| 45 | from Gloucester , he thought it meant Glasgow . |
| 46 | Traditionally , when a British company said that , it meant it wanted 90% . |
| 47 | Traditionally , when a British company said that , it meant it wanted 90% . |
| 48 | He regretted the Ryans ' intractability because he felt it made Eileen unhappy . |
| 49 | It was too heavy to turn in the wind , but it mattered little to know which way the wind was blowing : wherever it blew it blew word of the miraculous pageant and the Angel Gabriel . |
| 50 | In 1884 , when he finished the first version of his set ( he revised it to form part of his Klavierübung in 1922 ) , Busoni was only eighteen , but he was always a practised composer , with an enormous quantity of piano music to his credit — indeed , he had composed five Sonatas and a host of other pieces for all sorts of forces before he was fifteen . |
| 51 | He did it to protect Lennie from being killed a frightened man , by someone like Curley . |
| 52 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 53 | Perhaps he did it to hear Mother scream . |
| 54 | He had it named St George 's Church and also had it built in the centre of the village in impeccable Norman style with nave , transepts , chancel , altar , choir stalls , altar rails and tower . |
| 55 | He said it lacked poetry . |
| 56 | He said it contained engine components . |
| 57 | The way he said it made Sally feel like a parcel for delivery . |
| 58 | Something in the way he said it made Coffin sure he was right . |
| 59 | At first it was a long , gentle kiss , but as it deepened it caused Lucy 's heart to thump and her breath to quicken . |