Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This back parlour , Hope thought , as he entered it for the third time that day , is like a little theatre : Act I , Colonel Moore ; Act II , Amaryllis ; Act III |
| 2 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 3 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 4 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 5 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 6 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 7 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 8 | But , apart from the fact that there are some patients who , however straightforward their problem may seem , insist upon knowing what caused it in the first place , self-understanding is the key to the successful resolution of any emotional problem . |
| 9 | I was just going to mention the fact that if you have had breast cancer you can not go on H R T cos it was a hormone that caused it in the first place ! |
| 10 | Putting their dinner on the table , Trent reached for the photograph and studied it for the umpteenth time since finding it on Don Roberto 's piano — his mother , and the Colonel as a young man . |
| 11 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 12 | Brussels had a river but buried it in the 19th century when it began to stink . |
| 13 | Then he went to his wall safe , opened it with the second key on the ring attached by a chain to his trouser belt , and took out his papers . |
| 14 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 15 | Defoe and Richardson enjoyed it in the eighteenth century , Dickens in the next . |
| 16 | It seems necessary to remind de Man ( who claims that " deconstruction is not something that we have added to the text but it constituted it in the first place " ) of Todorov 's statement that de Man himself quotes in Blindness and Insight : |
| 17 | The first indication that anything was wrong came three months after I had let the tank up and stocked it for the first time . |
| 18 | ‘ I heard it for the first time on Saturday morning . ’ |
| 19 | I flew it for the first time to Dupage Airport to replace the ninety-channel radio with a 720-channel unit , then on to Janesville , Wisconsin , for paint work and a new headliner . |
| 20 | Sheppard modelled the statue in 1911–12 and exhibited it for the first time in 1914 . |
| 21 | this morning when , where we all watched it for the first time together and as , as Richard said you know , I 'm , I 'm squeamish about going to the dentist , so , and it cos er , it 's basically there 's a scene in the bar where they 're pulling this guy 's tooth out |
| 22 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 23 | Course , what you 've got to think of , Conservatives are the one that started it in the first place . |
| 24 | Well you were obviously , well you prescribed it in the first place |
| 25 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 26 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 27 | The following is a typical example of the character of the RAF as I saw it for the first time about a couple of months after I got to Baghdad . |
| 28 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |
| 29 | It felt it on the first morning when it came in and I sat on it , I thought well I 'm sure it did n't feel like the one we tried in the shop did n't feel like this but |
| 30 | This band of gold probably originates from Egypt , where lovers wore it on the fourth finger of the right hand or ring finger . |