Example sentences of "it [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 My mother forwarded it me the day she received it .
2 In the case of words which combine a fairly definite descriptive meaning with a valuational meaning it is rather a puzzle to say what correct linguistic usage bids one do , if one recognizes that something answers to the descriptive meaning , but does not have the attitude towards it which the word expresses in virtue of its ‘ value charge ’ , as one might put it .
3 ‘ Was it something the doctor said ? ’
4 It looks like smoked salmon and tastes like nothing on earth , but I gave it her the day before his next ward round .
5 But that said , erm what what it what the position is , er i is that we have put into the model Well we have n't put it into the model because it was given to us a part of the model and possibly by now North Yorkshire may have the revised model , No they have n't yet .
6 And yet it 's the people around Harlow were not supporting it what the hell are you going to do then ?
7 ‘ Call it what the hell you like ! ’ he rapped , and she knew that was the way it was going to be .
8 Call it what the fuck you like .
9 If you hot foot it whatever the weather , there 's only one watch that can stand the pace .
10 Yeah eight o'clock Wednesday night she showed it us the map .
11 A gust of cool air swept through the kitchen , setting the steam swirling , drawing it our the door .
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