Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Frank bought it last year |
2 | And Malcolm Wilson made it two home drivers in the top 10 when he completed the last timed phase in seventh place behind the wheel of his Ford Sierra Cosworth . |
3 | Finally , after 180 gallons of water and three hundredweight of coal going through Jesse , Gerry Williams made it third time lucky . |
4 | She was pleased that Faye drank it that way , since without food value it would n't affect her blood sugar level or insulin intake and therefore did n't have to be regulated in quantity and timing . |
5 | Miss Honey sensed that Matilda wanted it that way . |
6 | When Kalchu brought it fresh hay and water and even maize porridge it remained aloof and indifferent . |
7 | Certainly the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda saw it that way and his long meditation ‘ The Heights of Machu Picchu ’ had ensured that the ancient city acted as a Mecca for all Latin American writers : |
8 | Willie liked it that way . |
9 | Harry bought it last year to instigate an eighteen-month ground-up rebuild by a dedicated team of experienced Fouga engineers . |
10 | Nat watched Nat watched it last night ? |
11 | Not that the senior management of Even Rudergrams saw it that way , of course , and it took nearly an hour 's arguing before I got about sixty per cent of my agreed fee . |
12 | BR closed it last year . |
13 | Ivor thought it odd defending champions Europe should go first because tradition , and courtesy , normally allows the visitors the honour . |
14 | Though later , driving home , Nathan saw it another way . |
15 | Indeed Michael Blair did it full justice several times last night and who says Josef Locke was n't standing in the wings giving it an envied ear … |
16 | ‘ I moved out to stay in a hotel and I think Tracie preferred it that way . |
17 | It found support in the professional and middle classes , and Treitschke gave it intellectual respectability . |
18 | we did n't know you see , well Geoff paid it last year , well he di he di he did n't have to ! |
19 | Silkin 's Bill received an unopposed second reading in May ; for the Conservatives W.S. Morrison gave it general support . |
20 | Hurst summarised it this way : ‘ Much of the evolution of genetical systems is internally driven ’ , as a reaction to a series of conflicts generated by solutions to previous conflicts . |
21 | In Hedley Byrne , however , the House of Lords considered that , for a duty of care to exist , it was sufficient to establish that the professional ought to have known that the third party would rely on his statement , Lord Reid put it this way : ‘ I say ‘ ought to have known ’ because in questions of negligence we now apply the objective standard of what the reasonable man would have done . ’ |