Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | We agreed to do it this way , do you remember ? " |
| 9 | And that 's what we got doing it that way . |
| 10 | A year later and once more Mistral -driven , I decided to give it another try . |
| 11 | I decided to do it this morning . |
| 12 | On behalf of his wife , Sergeant Troy decided to have it one evening at the end of August , in the great barn . |
| 13 | Cos I kept singing it this morning . |
| 14 | have n't got any staff to do it this , we managed to do it last year . |
| 15 | In the coils adjacent to his wrists he located the python 's cloaca and managed to give it one hell of a goosing . |
| 16 | never tell , a girl we know went over at the same time as he did got it this year . |
| 17 | Death rates increased all the time , as hormonally charged adolescents flocked to give it heavy Brando on Honda C50s . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He liked to finish it each morning before he fetched the new day 's papers . |
| 21 | ‘ I ne'er liked telling it that way , like a fairy tale ; but he 's allus been that strong-willed … ’ |
| 22 | I did visit it that day . |
| 23 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 24 | The war , far from finishing off the machine of modernity , had given it new life . |
| 25 | ‘ Love , ’ she said , promptly , for she had given it some thought . |
| 26 | One obvious problem about the regent 's earlier policy of marrying her daughter to the dauphin is why leading Scottish Protestants like lord James Stewart and John Erskine of Dun had not only accepted this symbolic and political consolidation of the alliance with Catholic France , but had given it positive support , being among those who negotiated it . |
| 27 | Moltke , by reinforcing his left wing at the expense of his right , had given it sufficient strength to resist attack but insufficient to mount a crushing counter-attack . |
| 28 | She had seen it that morning , black and sleek , leaving hardly a ripple behind it , slipping silently away on the morning tide . |
| 29 | If Poland was backward it was not because the Poles wanted it so , but because Germany and the other partitioning powers had made it that way , and because the Allies had failed to provide the necessary capital to finance Poland to do the job they required . |
| 30 | I had visited it last year out of curiosity . |