Example sentences of "[prep] it [pron] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had spread a tarpaulin over the duckboards , and on top of it they dumped blankets from the ambulance . |
| 2 | Almost without being aware of it she became part of the team , feeling any initial nervousness slip away as her actions became automatic and her training took over . |
| 3 | With it he decked Tammy Faye in expensive jewellery . |
| 4 | Then , when I started to get into it I felt kind of holy , y'know , ‘ I 'm eating this good food ’ , but behind that was the desire continually to revert to eating junk food ( and I do ) because I am emotionally dependent on it . |
| 5 | From it he manufactured sodium peroxide , a valuable bleaching agent , especially for straw hats ; and sodium cyanide for the booming gold-mining industry , particularly in South Africa . |
| 6 | She took a seat and from it she saw nurses going in and out of the cubicle where they had taken Robbie . |
| 7 | He taught her the words of the Angelus , the Hail Mary ; though he said that he could not quite use all the words himself literally , but he respected those who could , and he did not think there was anything in it which made Mary take the place of her Son . |
| 8 | In it he attacked Marie Stopes who , in a previous issue , had protested at Herbert Read 's denigration of Lord Alfred Douglas in a review of a new biography of Wilde , based , as she saw it , on ‘ the hysterical and deranged outpourings of Oscar Wilde in prison ’ . |
| 9 | Other passengers helped to erect a tent of tarpaulins on the deck and in it she gave birth to a daughter . |
| 10 | There was a little plastic notice next to it which read EDENWORT : SLICE IT OR BAKE IT OR USE IT IN CASSEROLES . |
| 11 | And like half way through it they said ehm , they 've giving somebody the wrong prize money or something , they 've giving somebody fifty pounds , they should off giving it to this other coloured women right , and apparently this women was giving it all wow man yeah man , and all this you , you know they give it to them in the end and then she won the twelve hundred pounds . |
| 12 | She raised Skogen to her face and through it she saw Ghost of the Tree turn a quizzical and penetrating look upon her . |
| 13 | The inner door stood open and through it she caught sight of Eleanor Shergold sitting in one of the pews . |
| 14 | In fact , it was a stubborn virginity , which took all his strength to remove ; while he wrought at it she gave way to wailing , then it broke at last , a cry ; perhaps the only natural sound Emily had ever made in face of the only reality that had ever assailed her . |