Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used it this morning on one of Slash Harry 's victims and the edge is rather blunted " — his mania for self-advertisement and his intolerable bucolic laugh , and was grateful that at least he would n't be interrogating that redoubtable old phoney . |
| 2 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
| 3 | His hair was a little white in places and he found it difficult talking to people . |
| 4 | By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie . |
| 5 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |
| 6 | It was a neat idea , and one which placed it half way between the rigid discipline of the Trotskyites and the hopeless chaos of the Anarchists ( or Libertarians , as they preferred to call themselves ) on the ultra-left spectrum . |
| 7 | The government 's policy of gradual economic reform , which also emphasized increased foreign trade and investment , was modest in comparison with " shock " austerity programmes elsewhere in Latin America , but still lost it public support in the June 1990 congressional elections [ see p. 37529 ] . |
| 8 | was a digestive tea , they called it Digestive Tea in those days . |
| 9 | Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea . |
| 10 | Since I repotted it this spring into a generous-sized pot , it has not only burgeoned but I 've also found it much easier to keep the compost just nicely moist . |
| 11 | But I do n't suppose he saw it that way at the time . |
| 12 | But not everybody saw it that way at the time . |
| 13 | I saw it that way towards . |
| 14 | The landlord of the Dersingham Arms saw it driven past at about three-twenty pm . |
| 15 | and I brought it this way round the normal way that we go |
| 16 | Still , the album 's redeeming features made it worthwhile trekking through the odd patches of lacklustre mud . |
| 17 | Some man , he said oh , he made it all sort of proper . |
| 18 | The chief US negotiator , Carla Hills ( the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations ) , said on April 6 that she hoped in the near future ( i ) for an amendment of Japan 's Large Retail Store Act , which currently made it difficult start up new retail outlets ; and ( ii ) a restructuring of Japan 's Patent Office , which was accused of taking an average 37 months to approve new products for the Japanese market , and thus of effectively hampering the import of new products . |
| 19 | Freezing rod rings made it hard work in the Wotsits Open on the Trent at Long Higgin where Simon Roff ( Tri-Cast Barnsley ) fished the feeder at long range for three chub to 4 lb 4 oz in a winning 9–3–8 . |
| 20 | He admitted it last week at the Old Bailey . |
| 21 | I got it all back to front , and could n't think of a punchline . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , I got it this morning in Alès , ’ said Melissa , surprised at the reaction . |
| 23 | I bought it last week at Cheltenham and we came home and it 's already polished ready for Aintree on Saturday . |
| 24 | Well th the thing is those of you who did it last year with me , it 'll follow much the same sort of format , so Erm but we did n't do a little talk before . |
| 25 | Now er who did it last year amongst you ? |
| 26 | I would have said while I was putting out my washing cos I did it last night on purpose for the gas man coming in . |
| 27 | Colin Dodge for ‘ Sorry chaps , you 're too late , Crooksy and Blain did it last week in a Mobile Adventure open canoe , ’ Eddie Cornfield for ‘ When Fred said we were paddling in two inches of water I thought he was joking ! ’ , |
| 28 | The National Front 's vote increased from 10.4 per cent to 15.7 per cent , which gave it second place behind the candidate of the centrist Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) . |
| 29 | He conceived the idea of artificial daylight and gave it practical reality by filtering the light of an Argand oil lamp through blue glass . |
| 30 | He must have liked the sound it made because he gave it another couple for luck ; my courage rising , too , I gave it two more . |