Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well hardly out of the blue , they asked for it a week ago . |
| 2 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 3 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 4 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 5 | Different as his experience was from that of the curia , he found in it an ally far more than had Paul with his long curial background . |
| 6 | One of these whipped back at him and as he caught at it a thorn drove into the fleshy pad of his finger . |
| 7 | ‘ You told me you learnt about it a couple of weeks before Nicola was murdered . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We learnt of it a fortnight since , ’ said Aranyos , ‘ but I was only told last week . |
| 9 | If she even fried an egg , she directed upon it the beam of her concentration , almost praying it would not break . |
| 10 | In The Silmarillion Tolkien played through once more the drama of ‘ paradise lost ’ ; but he added to it a hint of ‘ paradise well lost ’ ( for many of the elves preferred Middle-earth even to immortal life , like Arwen ) ; and through the story there runs a delight in mutability , as languages change and treasures pass from hand to hand ; the deepest fable is of beauty forged , stolen , and lost forever in recovery . |
| 11 | Federal Treasurer Paul Keating retained his post and added to it the title of Deputy Prime Minister , thereby increasing speculation that he would succeed Hawke as Prime Minister [ see above ] . |
| 12 | I took it regularly and pored over it every week for two months , but search and phone as I might , I could n't find a decent barn owl . |
| 13 | To counteract that feeling , and while he propped her ‘ injured ’ foot on a stool and attended to her bruising , she opened her bag and extracted from it the envelope with Cara had handed over to her . |
| 14 | Capriati showed a little bit of rust from an eight-week lay-off , but her big first serve consistently registered 100mph and she said : ‘ I felt a lot better in the second set , I got into it a lot more . ’ |
| 15 | Then a woman in the street — the Via Monserato , between the Tiber and the Farnese Square , they talked about it so much , Mena and my grandmother , when I was little , I think they talked about it every day : Il Quartiere Papale , it does have a magnificent sound , has n't it ? and so much of it a slum ; the rich live above on the piani nobili , the ground floors and cellars are rented out to artisans ; my mother , who was brought up in those streets , says to know them you must have breathed the air in the evenings when the wine-shops are full and they are lighting charcoal braziers on the pavements ; she says I will go one day , but I think I know already — well , a woman in Mena 's street who sold salad greens knew the cook who worked for Anna and the prince round the corner and Mena was given things to do in the kitchen . |
| 16 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 17 | And she sort of we went through it a couple of time and then she said , I did n't say it , and neither did Jeff so I do n't know where she got it from . |
| 18 | He thought about it a bit more and decided that home was the wrong word ; it was just the place where he lived . |
| 19 | The way Mr. Mendez decided to go all of a sudden did n't make any sense at all until I thought about it a while . |
| 20 | ‘ The racecourse vet wanted to put him down and we thought about it a couple of times . |
| 21 | I thought about it a lot . ’ |
| 22 | The invention of printing in Europe in the sixteenth century soon brought with it a number of books offering dream-interpretations for ordinary people . |
| 23 | Dr Renger brought with it a coating for compact discs , which Morton has introduced to US manufacturers . |
| 24 | For some strange reason the image of the corpse of Nicola Sharpe floated up in his mind , and it brought with it a breath of foreboding , a sense that he was in the presence of evil . |
| 25 | Rolle fingered his chest in consternation , trying to work out where this strange warmth had come from , but soon decided that it was from God , because it brought with it a flood of pleasurable and consoling emotion . |
| 26 | The months passed and there came a week when the purple flowers of the heather took over the moorland slopes and brought with it the sense at last of autumn , a time he loved . |
| 27 | It not only dared to enter the domain of philosophy by offering a critique of epistemology but also brought with it the heresy of relativism . |
| 28 | We conclude that heterogeneous chemistry on background aerosols was responsible for this conversion , which brought with it the potential for additional ozone loss in the autumn . |
| 29 | The expansion of business and industry in all the main ports and towns of Scotland also brought with it an influx of work-hungry ‘ inlanders ’ , as well as islanders , adding even more to the tensions . |
| 30 | And when the snow thawed and took with it the paint they had daubed it with , he was out there picking off the remaining flakes of paint , and cursing with disappointment . |