Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to wonder what on earth people found to talk about for so long , and on the occasion when I was called to a neighbour 's telephone in Baldersdale , I was so uneasy that someone had to hold it to my ear . |
| 2 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 3 | No no , someone had sent it to him . |
| 4 | His mouth felt dry , as if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 5 | It was if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 6 | She has had hundreds of letters from adults sexually abused as children saying ‘ keep going , that they wished someone had diagnosed it in their childhood and describing the trauma they still suffer as adults even though to the outside world they are perfectly normal , respectable people . |
| 7 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone had taken it to a French jeweller after the war and tried to sell it . |
| 9 | ‘ Someone had taken it by morning . ’ |
| 10 | Someone had marked it with chalk . |
| 11 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 12 | Jacob said nobody had used it since that terrible accident . ’ |
| 13 | Evidently , people in this street were used to strange cars being parked and nobody had thought it worth while to ring the police , despite the fact that the doors bristled with Neighbourhood Watch signs . |
| 14 | These comforted her , not because she had any faith in their message , but because they were phrased with some beauty ; they were made up of words that seemed to apply to some large and other world of other realities , and they bore witness , also , to the fact that somebody had thought it worth his while to put them up . |
| 15 | Somebody had brought it with him . |
| 16 | And he thought he 'd landed but it was empty , it had likely somebody had got it before him . |
| 17 | Somebody had put it in the drawer . |
| 18 | So of course I , took me about half hour to find the forklift cos somebody had nicked it by time I went got the chemicals Robin comes down , he said oh do n't worry about he said do i do it tomorrow morning he said , they 'll be nobody about then can you go down the bot bottom and do the butterflies ? |
| 19 | Somebody wanted to buy it as a non-worker but I said well I said we 'd ordered a part for it so |
| 20 | ‘ Mother Machree ’ and even if everyone hated to admit it to his face , Father Mooney sang it well , considering he was a man that had no formal training at Ingham 's . |
| 21 | Given the hypothetical choice — none had faced it for real — three dog owners at City Road said it was easy . |
| 22 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 23 | After all — he 'd hardly bother telling you that unless something had put it into his mind . |
| 24 | A kolkhoz to the east of Smolensk city in the Dorogobuzhskii raion complained that in 1921 its two shefi , a nearby hospital , and a regiment , had helped with the harvest , but no one had visited it in 1922 . |
| 25 | No one had used it for years . |
| 26 | It also has two sets of wheels , one set to guide it on rails and a set of rubber tyres for roads . |
| 27 | If anyone wanted to attempt it from what they 've read in this book , I would strongly recommend that they think very carefully about it before they acquire a bird . |