Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] it [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would all be returning to town in the autumn to meet some sons of good families in Riba ; she 'd been saving for years , money from the pigeons , money from the cheeses , the almonds , her mother 's money when she died — may she rest in peace and perpetual light shine on her — she 'd hidden it from that villainous landlord who 'd strip everyone of their surplus if he knew how much they 'd hoarded , but they 'd never find out , the folk were far too tight to let anyone know , and he , Davide , must not breathe a word . |
| 2 | Even knowing she looked ridiculous , she 'd enjoyed it after that first entrance , had loved being on a stage again , singing with the company . |
| 3 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 5 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 6 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 7 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |
| 8 | But she 'd blown it with that acidic little crack . |
| 9 | She 'd chosen it for that reason — and because it was the colour of wine . |
| 10 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 11 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 12 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 13 | When he handled her breasts they were tender ; she had noticed it for some time . |
| 14 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 15 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 16 | She did n't know what it meant but had seen it in some of the old books in the Doctor 's TARDIS . |
| 17 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 18 | But I was sure I had seen it after that , slinking , a shadow cat in the tree shadows , black as Egypt 's night . |
| 19 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 20 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
| 21 | But the fact that Sarah had said it at all seemed to mean she thought they were very close friends . |
| 22 | But she had said it without much hope . |
| 23 | And from the branches of NALGO , NUPE and COHSE within Northumberland had produced it under this kind of joint format . |
| 24 | He had avoided it with all the fuss going on but wanted to see the Bookman once more before the expedition started . |
| 25 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 26 | Jacob said nobody had used it since that terrible accident . ’ |
| 27 | And DeVore , hearing it , had felt he had used it like some secret password ; some token of mutual understanding . |
| 28 | The offender had a dispute with the victim as a result of the sale by her of his car : the offender claimed that she had sold it for less than it was worth , and had not paid over to him his proper share in the proceeds of the sale . |
| 29 | The Romanians had played it for all it was worth . |
| 30 | On certain feast days , the gates of the inner sanctuary where the reliquary was kept-were opened , and it became visible , in its tabernacle behind the statue ; when they were shut , visitors had to peep through the bars : the grille was shiny where hands had gripped it on either side to get a glimpse . |