Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it got him in the end . |
| 2 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 3 | She could put up with that if it got her to a city , or within reach of a ve-hickle she could scav . |
| 4 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 5 | The Virgin bent her head to the dove in pictures of the Annunciation , and it pierced her through the ear , bringing her the Word that was life itself , down into her womb ; that was what Rosa wanted , Tommaso 's mouth next to her ear , until she , like the woman with her lover in the doorway , would wriggle and gasp . |
| 6 | There was a word for that kind of thing : it branded you as a ‘ premature anti-Fascist ’ . |
| 7 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 8 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 9 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 10 | It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs . |
| 11 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 12 | They argue that , for Whitehouse in particular , though after the war her formal ties with the Oxford Group diminished , her years of close association with it provided her with a very clear intellectual approach to the perceived ills of the modern world . |
| 13 | His own contribution was to suggest ways in which the legal process exerted a powerful influence over delinquents : it provided them with a vocabulary which enabled them to justify their delinquent actions ‘ in the circumstances ’ ( ‘ techniques of neutralisation ’ ) and with a sense of injustice which helped to release them from feelings of obligation to conform . |
| 14 | The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members . |
| 15 | Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine . |
| 16 | Served up as B fodder , at least it provided him with a salary , albeit on rock-bottom union rates of around $300 for a full working week , which assured him a place barely above the poverty line . |
| 17 | Suppose that within the five-year term the Government were defeated in the Commons on a topic so important that it regarded it as a matter of confidence in itself . |
| 18 | Yanto Gates broke through the blackthorn hedge which separated the Severn bank from the adjacent Berkeley to Gloucester canal towpath , and surveyed the scene before him He loved this river , but tonight , bathed in this unusually bright moonlight , it moved him to the point of goose pimples . |
| 19 | It caught her on the elbow of her right arm and sliced right through the botched teflon sutures that held the forearm below it in place . |
| 20 | Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns . |
| 21 | It drew her to a big yellow truck , where a dark scarf of smoke tugged across the pavement . |
| 22 | His beloved father , Jack , had no especial love for cricket , although later on young John would delight in a recollection that when cricket began to seek better playing surfaces it found them in the graveyards . |
| 23 | That gesture was so unexpected and beautiful that it remained in Agnes 's memory like the imprint of a lightning bolt ; it invited her into the depths of space and time and awakened in the sixteen-year-old girl a vague and immense longing . |
| 24 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 25 | Frankie could not be one of them , yet he feared in his hear that it might be true , because when she called him ‘ Nigger ’ it wounded him in a special way he did not really understand . |
| 26 | Subtitled Diana Unclothed , it compared her to the Lady of Shallott , Greta Garbo , Sleeping Beauty and Mother Theresa . |
| 27 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 28 | So it would start the timing mechanism running at the moment it dropped it over the side . |
| 29 | The thought of it filled her with an immense regret because a child could not stay a child there would be men ( a man she hoped ) in Nicandra 's life , Aunt Tossie thought with pity and some disgust — her mind scampered hurriedly from the contemplation of a subject not forbidden so much as not existing for her . |
| 30 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |