Example sentences of "it [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | well I , getting back to the picture you see , I , when I looked at it I thought good god it 's our Bill , I , I you could of thought it were twin brothers when I |
2 | When I opened it I found neat bundles of fivers , each one with a Bank of Berlin band around it . |
3 | There was something about cutter work — glamour , adventure , battling the elements , or just plain escapism — call it what you will , but once you had experienced it you had great difficulty in settling down to the more prosaic existence ashore . |
4 | Miss Honey found a tray and on it she put two mugs , the teapot , the half bottle of milk and a plate with the two slices of bread . |
5 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
6 | On this particular day , they had been shooting at Taos and at the end of it they dropped some acid and took off with two other friends to visit the nearby tomb of D.H . |
7 | And as if they knew it they sent another flare up into the sky , so that it glowed bright and cheerful as a street lamp above his path of retreat . |
8 | in bad weather we used to go into what was it they called Long Hope or something and anchor there . |
9 | What was it they called that term in rhetoric ? |
10 | He thought he heard the clatter of it in the roads , oh it it had awful stuff of that kind . |
11 | Beneath it he wore black velvet leggings , and his feet were encased in black slippers , decorated with gold embroidery . |
12 | With it he brought good news to first-time buyers , who could save up to £600 on the purchase of their first home . |
13 | In it he said that man 's control over the world — steam , explosives , atoms and space — has outrun his power over himself to use that command wisely . |