Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Border described it all as media nonsense , saying he had , in fact , stayed behind to attend to some personal business . |
2 | As for Peter and Pat Lawford , they fixed it so that John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe could screw around without Jackie finding out . |
3 | ‘ I found it just before Jack Bernstein rang . |
4 | Matthew sliced it diagonally as Lizzie had described and gave them their portions . |
5 | A large tear trickled down her nose , but she fielded it neatly before Susan saw . |
6 | They felt it right that Wendy did not see him die . |
7 | I first knew it unmistakably when Herr Sussmeyer replied to my first letter , saying he had this quest for pubic hairs because he loved and respected women so much . |
8 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
9 | Annette stared but took it silently while George clanked and prattled over the tray of bottles . |
10 | Do n't know why we never realised it before but Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the company 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock , making him worth about $60m . |
11 | She admitted it tempestuously as Luke deprived her of the erotic stimulation of his mouth , opening her eyes just in time to see the blaze of triumph in his as he heard her . |
12 | Do n't know why we never realized it before but Sun chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the firm 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock . |
13 | Rohmer proffered it nonchalantly and Pearce sat again , scrutinising it as if examining the small print . |
14 | For those who ‘ liked a job to do ’ there was the distribution of food and clothing and fuel , and there were some who did it honestly and others who were suspected of turning it into a ‘ racket ’ . |
15 | They liked it even if Narouz did n't . |
16 | The rest , shame to say , all gave it away as England folded dismally to 99 for six . |
17 | Gregory converted it too and Northampton knew they were dead and buried . |
18 | I have always assumed that Brightside had it right and Dagenham was merely contributing a series of Gouldisms to the discussion . |
19 | He said it casually but Rachel threw him a sharp glance . |
20 | ‘ It was important we reached the League stage and I thought our players wanted it more than Leeds . |
21 | By the mid-fourth century the patriarchal line of Church leadership began to fuse with a male construction of celibacy that defined it both as avoidance of contact with women as the source of sin and as a source of power over inferior married people . |