Example sentences of "it [vb past] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 2 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 3 | It compared this expectation with the actual unemployment rate . |
| 4 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 5 | ‘ The plaintiff admits for the purposes of this action , that on 2 March 1988 it agreed to accept a surrender of the lease from the first defendant and that by its agents G. Moore , certified bailiffs , and as advised by the third party it recorded this surrender in a memorandum of 2 March 1988 . |
| 6 | It repeated this request on 1 March 1984 , but the Commission took no action . |
| 7 | It accompanied this request with a paper entitled ‘ Future Management of AFE and distribution of the 1982/83 AFE pool ’ , outlining the criteria which the short-term machinery would have to meet and stressing that the paper had been prepared ‘ purely as a basis for further discussion between the Department and the local authorities ’ . |
| 8 | The United Kingdom imposed visa restrictions from Nov. 8 on former Yugoslavs except holders of Croatian and Slovenian passports and agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants ; on Nov. 30 it increased this number to 1,000 plus dependants for temporary asylum . |
| 9 | Like Bullock , it presented this area of human experience as a pleasurable , worthwhile activity helping ‘ each pupil to develop appreciation and enjoyment ’ . |
| 10 | Cleo Huggins made a tree that had another little notch on top , so it had this kind of Arabic feel . |
| 11 | It justified this decision by boasting a stronger and more interesting group of works in a larger auction in which 169 lots were sold for £1.57 million ( $2.32 million ) , with only twenty-three lots failing to find buyers . |
| 12 | It justified this decision by citing fears that the agreement would lead to more drug trafficking ( because of Holland 's liberal drug laws ) , more illegal immigrants and more terrorism ( because of leaky Italian and Greek frontiers ) . |
| 13 | It justified this effort by the limited number of such compounds available , and the lack of interest by industry . |