Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HENRY WHARTON plans to take the short route to victory at Leeds Town Hall tonight when he defends his Commonwealth super-middleweight title against Australian Rod Carr , the man he beat to win it last year . |
| 2 | I tried to get it last night . |
| 3 | He promised to return it that evening . |
| 4 | He 'd made it clear right form the start just how he regarded her — as a brash and brassy nightclub singer , nothing else . |
| 5 | He 'd seen it many times . |
| 6 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 7 | Because that 's how they 'd done it twenty years ago , and that 's how they 're going to do it till they retire . |
| 8 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 9 | I 'd bought it two days before and was just trying it out ! ’ |
| 10 | I 'd bought it three minutes later . |
| 11 | The hose was where I 'd left it last summer , not neatly stored but tangled in a corner , its untidy coils covering a rake , a batch of canes and a pair of long-handled shears . |
| 12 | And the rosebush culled from the best North-West London nursery — he 'd planted it last Saturday — was only there for me when I ripped scarlet beads of blood from thin air . |
| 13 | ‘ I just happened to discover it last spring , when I was trying to find out more about the d'Urbervilles and noticed your name in the village . ’ |
| 14 | We agreed to do it this way , do you remember ? " |
| 15 | The village is deserted , and ominously near a cemetery containing the graves of 300 French soldiers killed defending it ten years before . |
| 16 | And that 's what we got doing it that way . |
| 17 | A year later and once more Mistral -driven , I decided to give it another try . |
| 18 | I decided to do it this morning . |
| 19 | Not since they started calling it another Wayne 's World . |
| 20 | On behalf of his wife , Sergeant Troy decided to have it one evening at the end of August , in the great barn . |
| 21 | Cos I kept singing it this morning . |
| 22 | He proceeded to play it five times at the next night 's party ( ‘ We thought he was just being nice but he said it was great ! ’ ) . |
| 23 | have n't got any staff to do it this , we managed to do it last year . |
| 24 | In the coils adjacent to his wrists he located the python 's cloaca and managed to give it one hell of a goosing . |
| 25 | I like this girl , cos she 's Welsh , just , I ca n't do her accent , but she kept saying it several times , he was getting really pissed off with her . |
| 26 | never tell , a girl we know went over at the same time as he did got it this year . |
| 27 | Death rates increased all the time , as hormonally charged adolescents flocked to give it heavy Brando on Honda C50s . |
| 28 | But if you were playing with a drummer who liked to give it some wallop , you 'd soon be lost in terms of volume , and that would piss you off a bit . |
| 29 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |
| 30 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |