Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Catlett , a plain and practical man himself , pronounced it to rhyme with poor-net . |
| 2 | One UN convoy was still stranded at the Drina river frontier between Bosnia and Serbia after Bosnian Serb militia stopped it crossing on Sunday . |
| 3 | She used it to listen to Wagner on the tube , it turned her five-foot and a small something into a snarling Valkyrie , keeping the loonies at bay . |
| 4 | ‘ We used it to pay for car hire , the hall , flowers and drinks . |
| 5 | This series took four British families , all with the surname Smith , and used it to look at aspects of life in contemporary Britain . |
| 6 | I found it clutched in Anna 's hand when we cleaned her up . |
| 7 | ‘ When I was given it I believed it came from Barbara Coleman . |
| 8 | He believed it to work in scenes rather than in its entirety , and in a lecture some years later he criticized himself for not properly developing the action and for failing to adapt the classical theme to a contemporary situation . |
| 9 | Adverse weather conditions , however , caused it to withdraw into shelter and while it was away the French fleet , consisting of eight sail of the line and 24 frigates under Admiral de Forbin , managed , on 8 March , to get out to sea unintercepted . |
| 10 | Then came It Happened in Capri , and after that , nothing . |
| 11 | Getting alarmed I pushed my hand under his jacket and withdrew it covered with blood . |
| 12 | DEC 's demonstration showed it running with 256Mb internal and 852Mb disk , and says it had it running with 4Gb external in the labs . |
| 13 | There was no ram-raiding until after the news showed it happening in America . |
| 14 | In the face of a severe crisis relating to international reserves the government devalued the currency twice , in February and in March , and allowed it to float in September . |
| 15 | This allowed it to veer off course quite readily unless the steering or correction stroke was timed to strike when the kayak was perched on top of the wave . |
| 16 | When she laughed and giggled it stretched from ear to ear , but half an hour after leaving her you found yourself remembering Harvey 's claim that she was the most beautiful girl in the world . |
| 17 | They ordered it to return to Neryungri , where 41 women and children passengers and six hijackers left the plane ( two accomplices now joined the remaining original hijackers , however ) . |
| 18 | In his book , Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain , published in 1724 , the English author Daniel Defoe wrote of having seen the horn and heard it sounded at Coilsfield House ( later rebuilt and named Montgomerie House ) to call the servants to their duties . |
| 19 | That was going to be in May so we needed it to ship in April so I said , well you 've got to you 've got to still finish it at the same time . |
| 20 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note . |
| 21 | Even now I 'll go back and I ca n't play note for note what I played then ; I can get the general feel of it but I can never go back and hit it note for note |
| 22 | He sat and watched it fall into folds across his knee and the dense depth of its scarlet pile was more delightful than wine or the blood from roasting beef . |
| 23 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 24 | yeah because I saw it advertised in Woolworth 's yesterday I did |
| 25 | It is a mild puzzle at first , to come across the young river Adour flowing from south to north down its valley , when you last saw it flowing from east to west into the ocean at Bayonne . |
| 26 | I saw it happen with Jaco Pastorius — I know what it was like the first time I heard him . |
| 27 | Clear sunny day followed upon clear sunny day , and when rain fell it fell at night to scent the dawn with the evocative fragrances of damp lavender and box . |
| 28 | The papacy 's moral powers enabled it to look for money throughout the western world . |
| 29 | ‘ We knew it came from Gotha , but it was legally very difficult to stop a picture that belonged to an East German public collection … as this was before the unification of Germany ’ . |
| 30 | " I thought it belonged to Preston ! " |