Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I do n't I made it like mug soup not plain soup . |
| 2 | But I found it collected dust in a corner . |
| 3 | I borrowed , I borrowed it to watch EastEnders last night . |
| 4 | No , I started it saves time in the morning . |
| 5 | When I saw my picture on the front page of the local newspaper I knew it meant trouble . ’ |
| 6 | I thought it dishonest-comparing facts with a hypothesis . |
| 7 | I thought it annoyed Dad , and we 'd get kicked out . |
| 8 | I did it last time . |
| 9 | They watching , they watch like a hawk , cos remember I did it last , I did I did it last time , this is yonks ago . |
| 10 | I joined Endesha Holland 's class eager to learn ; I left it hating school . |
| 11 | She made it sound French , pronouncing the word so that it rhymed with ‘ Vaseline ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 14 | If she found it stretching credulity that a meeting between them was n't inevitable she 'd always fiercely denied to herself that she had any interest in seeing him again , so why should she be feeling so shivery and hot , almost as if she had a fever ? |
| 15 | When she received a gift from the Queensland corps back in Australia she used it to help Simon . |
| 16 | She heard it give way and then plunge into the water . |
| 17 | She called it graduated henna . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yet the table still looked bare , and suddenly she knew it needed flowers . |
| 21 | She saw it had wok en further into its power , for the light was visible , washing through the dark ; it sighed like the sea . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She did it last time , and she did it again . ’ |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | It 's interesting cos you said it helps people with mild depression . |
| 26 | If she left it unopened Rosie would face it when she got back from lunch and Rain could not be that heartless . |
| 27 | ‘ We used it to heal sword cuts in the Holy Land , ’ he said . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | They obtained it using observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE ) satellite . |