Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had convinced myself the diet was necessary even though I found it tough going and particularly rough after a major operation and great weight loss . |
| 2 | In nineteen hundred and twelve the Dutch came and the Oxford Motor Club entertained them and we went all round the High Wycome area , Cophill and that on hill climbs , so we re-enacted it last year and I was riding my nineteen fourteen motorcycle , and I was asked — I was the oldest rider — how old are you ? — I said eighty years old — and what is your biggest difficulty ? — and I said getting my leg over , which I really literally meant because the saddle 's very high and I do have a job getting my leg over the saddle ! |
| 3 | It appeared in WW for July 28 and August 4 , 1926 and owed it considerable success and subsequent fame to the new technique of neutralising the RF stage triode and to the use of an RF coil design by Cocking . |
| 4 | He awarded it third prize and walked away . |
| 5 | Yes , I have the slip somewhere , and my father I did n't keep it but my father must have kept it , but I discovered it one day and it was seven and thruppence I think for the first week 's pay . |
| 6 | The gravediggers got hold of the coffin and shook it ; they pulled it this way and that , twisted it , hacked at it with a spade , levered at it with crowbars ; but still it would n't move . |
| 7 | I 've only ever seen one before right , I watched it last night and it 's the same fucking one . |
| 8 | So he clicked it all way and it come up I says now get your green line I says straight down middle and tune it in . |
| 9 | Certainly the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda saw it that way and his long meditation ‘ The Heights of Machu Picchu ’ had ensured that the ancient city acted as a Mecca for all Latin American writers : |
| 10 | Good job you saw it this morning and not last night then is it ? |
| 11 | When Kalchu brought it fresh hay and water and even maize porridge it remained aloof and indifferent . |
| 12 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 13 | He was wearing a wetsuit and lifejacket but seawater in the river made it icy cold and he was gasping with exhaustion as he was pulled out , suffering from a shoulder injury . |
| 14 | He had heard that Newgate was a hell-hole but now he experienced it first hand and understood why some prisoners went quickly insane . |
| 15 | Boon duly got it next day and took his average to a Bradmanesque 86 . |
| 16 | I paid £130 when I bought it second hand and would like to know if this is its true value . |
| 17 | And they bought it last summer and they 've had trouble ever since ! |
| 18 | Well no I did it last week and one of the references I could n't remember the name of the woman , so I just put Mrs blank and I just left it so I thought I 'd do it again cos there were a couple of bits I did wrong and a bit dodgy , so I though save me writing it I 'll just do it all over again but it looks like I 'm not gon na be able to now because we 've brought out here for a piddling stupid fire drill ! |
| 19 | She whisked a blanket off the nearest trolley , wrapped it round baby and bag , and placed the bundle in my arms . |
| 20 | She held it this way and that , frowning . |