Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 4 | But I only associated it with wine . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | This not only brought it into harmony with the existing regime , but also enabled it to further dissociate itself from its Judaic origins . |
| 7 | We all did it as part of an English lesson . |
| 8 | Her action is seen as an irrational or emotional response to a particular situation ; she ‘ only did it for love ’ , for example . |
| 9 | She only did it for fun , he said . |
| 10 | We only bought it at car boot sale and there were bits missing . |
| 11 | ‘ He only said it in passing , ’ she added quickly . |
| 12 | She finally made it to university , after which to my regret I lost touch with her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We just found it by chance . |
| 15 | I just mentioned it in passing and let the conversation carried on about something else so I , I do n't know whether |
| 16 | I just heard it on TV . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I thought the part that , you know , she forgot it er well I know she did n't forget it , she just did it on purpose , but three days after my birthday it 's her wee brother 's first birthday and she had , she had the nerve to ring me up and invite me to her brother 's first birthday party accept and go up there with a present and a card and all and she could n't even have rang me up to say happy birthday So I have n't |
| 19 | We went all over town , looked at rock stars and actors , but Val just had it from day one . |
| 20 | ( Mr Orlando soon left it in order to found a new movement of his own . ) |
| 21 | Look when they kicked the ball at , they could quite as easily kicked it at tree . |
| 22 | I only ever half-believed her , but she always told it with conviction . |
| 23 | Hundreds of millions more watched it on television and can remember the dress she wore , the horse-drawn carriage she arrived in , the kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace , the cheering , the music , the colour and the happiness . |
| 24 | That point may seem obvious but I do n't think whoever worked out the amounts given in state benefits ever took it into account . |
| 25 | You know he always wore it for gardening . |
| 26 | It was hard to imagine he had known romance — and still had it in mind . |
| 27 | They promptly shot it for dinner , a welcome break from dehydrated rations . |
| 28 | This dimension examined whether or not the firm had a patron which disproportionately supplied it with work . |
| 29 | A white hankie was thrust out to her and she gratefully held it in front of mouth , her eyes wide with desperate appeal . |
| 30 | We have , in fact , as well as polluting our environment chemically also polluted it with radio waves of varying frequencies . |