Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why was it you only got it at places like fairs and the seaside ? |
| 2 | ‘ I only got it from Lewens for fifteen ! ’ |
| 3 | And we only found it by chance , you know how you go off to think oh I 'll , I 'll go and find a coffee or something , and we found this restaurant at lunch time and had a coffee there and we looked at the menu and , you know , we , we could n't believe it ! |
| 4 | The problem for the Thatcher Government is that its own diagnosis of the crisis of state authority constantly impelled it towards intervention whether in the internal affairs of trade unions , the spending priorities of local authorities , the curricula of schools and universities , or the patterns of family behaviour . |
| 5 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 6 | It did n't had n't got they did n't have four posts at this time , they hung the top part of the bed , literally hung it from cords wrapped round rafters . |
| 7 | But I only associated it with wine . ’ |
| 8 | As Mr Hart himself asked in a letter to The Times : ‘ In the face of so pellucid a Parliamentary intention , how was it that the Revenue not only thought it worth while to try it on , but actually found two courts to agree with it ? ’ |
| 9 | This not only brought it into harmony with the existing regime , but also enabled it to further dissociate itself from its Judaic origins . |
| 10 | We all did it as part of an English lesson . |
| 11 | Her action is seen as an irrational or emotional response to a particular situation ; she ‘ only did it for love ’ , for example . |
| 12 | She only did it for fun , he said . |
| 13 | We only bought it at car boot sale and there were bits missing . |
| 14 | ‘ She only bought it in October and she had me wash it every Saturday since , ’ says Tim fingering the glossy body of the car he now drives . |
| 15 | ‘ He only said it in passing , ’ she added quickly . |
| 16 | Shame I already got it from Cowley . |
| 17 | I finally made it into Webber Douglas where I finally realised that this was where I belonged . |
| 18 | However I had no wish to disappoint everyone concerned by postponing by visit to the Palace and , with a lot of help from friends and family I finally made it to London on the great day albeit a shadow of my former self . |
| 19 | In 1964 Miles , via Cheltenham , Oxford , and Stroud finally made it to London , and by January 1965 to a job behind the counter at Better Books . |
| 20 | Young , chirpy faces to greet me when I finally made it to Raynes Park . |
| 21 | She finally made it to university , after which to my regret I lost touch with her . |
| 22 | A special light-weight tripod was sent out from the UK ( and after much greasing of palms , finally made it through customs ) . |
| 23 | Aye , she gave me Amy 's about the day before , I thought I look at it now , so , I only just got it in time . |
| 24 | We just found it by chance . |
| 25 | I just mentioned it in passing and let the conversation carried on about something else so I , I do n't know whether |
| 26 | Well I expect he just handed it to Tim and Tim picked it up thinking it was smooth . |
| 27 | The phone was handed over to Erika , who confirmed the trip and then gave the phone to her mother , who exchanged a few banalities and then handed it to Omi , who cooed and clucked and finally returned it to Herr Nordern who said , briefly , that they all looked forward very much to seeing Karl again and firmly replaced the receiver before anyone else could claim it . |
| 28 | I just heard it on TV . |
| 29 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |
| 30 | There 's been an increasing tendency for people to stay on at school because they really want to , where it was one of the great criticisms of the boom years that people simply stayed on the escalator regardless , did n't think whether they wanted to stay on to , into sixth form , did n't think whether they wanted to go on to university or higher education , erm just did it without thinking . |