Example sentences of "it [pers pn] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did I start with there so that when I differentiated it I got X squared . |
| 2 | Then , when I started to get into it I felt kind of holy , y'know , ‘ I 'm eating this good food ’ , but behind that was the desire continually to revert to eating junk food ( and I do ) because I am emotionally dependent on it . |
| 3 | The 12 year old who started an account of a woodwork project by writing " When I made it I used glue and a tenon saw " failed to appreciate that it had not been established textually . |
| 4 | ‘ Fortunately while I was answering it I caught sight of her trying to take the painting down . ’ |
| 5 | How was it she had heart even to look at me , as tormented as she was ? ’ |
| 6 | She raised Skogen to her face and through it she saw Ghost of the Tree turn a quizzical and penetrating look upon her . |
| 7 | She took a seat and from it she saw nurses going in and out of the cubicle where they had taken Robbie . |
| 8 | Almost without being aware of it she became part of the team , feeling any initial nervousness slip away as her actions became automatic and her training took over . |
| 9 | In fact , it was a stubborn virginity , which took all his strength to remove ; while he wrought at it she gave way to wailing , then it broke at last , a cry ; perhaps the only natural sound Emily had ever made in face of the only reality that had ever assailed her . |
| 10 | Other passengers helped to erect a tent of tarpaulins on the deck and in it she gave birth to a daughter . |
| 11 | The inner door stood open and through it she caught sight of Eleanor Shergold sitting in one of the pews . |
| 12 | Before he closed it we heard Mrs Scutt 's irate , ‘ He 's never going to tell her off , is he ? ’ |
| 13 | Hang on hang on metal and acid say think of the zinc and which acid was it we used H two S O four , what did the zinc do to the hydrogen ? |
| 14 | And like half way through it they said ehm , they 've giving somebody the wrong prize money or something , they 've giving somebody fifty pounds , they should off giving it to this other coloured women right , and apparently this women was giving it all wow man yeah man , and all this you , you know they give it to them in the end and then she won the twelve hundred pounds . |
| 15 | He had spread a tarpaulin over the duckboards , and on top of it they dumped blankets from the ambulance . |
| 16 | It did improve the image and it it improved people 's confidence I think in themselves and in the area . |
| 17 | From it he manufactured sodium peroxide , a valuable bleaching agent , especially for straw hats ; and sodium cyanide for the booming gold-mining industry , particularly in South Africa . |
| 18 | Reports had it he thought Ray Floyd had shot the US side in the foot by selecting Tom Watson as a " wild card " choice but the British crowds gave this five-time pen Champion the biggest cheer of any American . |
| 19 | As he was stirring it he heard Christopher cough and start to cry . |
| 20 | With it he decked Tammy Faye in expensive jewellery . |
| 21 | In it he attacked Marie Stopes who , in a previous issue , had protested at Herbert Read 's denigration of Lord Alfred Douglas in a review of a new biography of Wilde , based , as she saw it , on ‘ the hysterical and deranged outpourings of Oscar Wilde in prison ’ . |
| 22 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 23 | To escape it he pushed Iron Josh back into his chair and resumed his own seat . |