Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When international marketing first appeared as a distinct subject few writers described it by any title other than that . |
| 2 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 3 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 4 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 5 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 6 | Only 13% ( 26 ) spoke to their spouse about it , and fewer than 10% mentioned it to another family member or friend . |
| 7 | Not all approached it with such seriousness . |
| 8 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It stood , open and scoured , to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk . |
| 10 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 11 | Yet he would have spent far less money if he had bought the first house and completely refurnished the kitchen or even changed it to another room . |
| 12 | Then he opened the cage , took out the part ( which now looked slightly different ) and dropped it into another bin . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't remember what I actually said , but obviously Mandy misinterpreted it in some way . |
| 14 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 15 | I come from a fanatically rugby-conscious Welsh miner 's family ; five of my six brothers played it with some distinction . |
| 16 | He opened the camera , took out the film and handed it with another smile to the man with the spoonbill nose . |
| 17 | He fetched it without another word and watched her while she folded sheets of newspaper into firelighters in the thrifty way Gran had taught her . |
| 18 | Ruth enquired politely , with her head in the basin as Gloria washed her hair , then rinsed it with another jug full of water . |
| 19 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 20 | I did n't know there were a video , I says get your he just tuned it on any channel , I says get your remote control for your telly I says and click |
| 21 | Jacopone da Todi , the follower of Francis , expressed it in this way : |
| 22 | Paul expressed it in this way : ‘ I live ; yet not I , but Christ lives in me . ’ |
| 23 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 24 | Well it well ah but ah but they never they never killed it in that quantity as they 're doing it now . |
| 25 | To cross the river we returned to the road , followed it for some way parallel to the railway and then joined the line again near a farm . |
| 26 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 27 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 28 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
| 29 | Military engineers would have worked out this information , and fed it into each missile , many months before . |
| 30 | And I arranged it on that day at the time . |