Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] it [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 2 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 3 | I would like you to wear it for a while . ’ |
| 4 | I want to make the volume of the space tangible , so that it is understood immediately , physically , by your body ; not that the sculpture is a body in relation to your body , but that the volume , through the placement of the two sculptural elements , becomes manifest in a way that allows you to experience it as a whole . |
| 5 | The so the equations they give you your ability to handle equations means really it would be easier for you to do it without a graph , half the time . |
| 6 | I hate the system that forces them to do it for a living and then screws them afterwards . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They play three at the back , but the ability of players like Awford enables them to use it as a springboard for attack as well as a defensive system . |
| 8 | There was nothing to protect it save a company of disreputable rabble and a small strange looking nine-barrelled cannon . |
| 9 | Isobel read it and sent me to Professor MacFee — an English Professor — with it , and they both helped me to send it to a publisher in London . |
| 10 | so , so then Anita goes , no I go tell him to put it in a letter then , yeah , and he was gon na put it in a letter and then he changed his mind and he said he was gon na ask me after school , but then he did n't ask me after school and Kate gave him my phone number and then he phoned me |
| 11 | He also gave Minton a copy of Pinet 's 1733 edition of Horace , with its engraved decorations , and asked him to use it as a starting point . |
| 12 | Tom Poole suggested it as a last resort , and Coleridge , who remembered the cottage , immediately asked him to take it for a year . |
| 13 | The Captain frowned and murmured something sufficiently incomprehensible for her to take it as a negative . |
| 14 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |
| 15 | Every time I lifted it to aim it at a target living or not — this moment would be at the back of my mind . |
| 16 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 17 | Any text , in any language , exhibits certain linguistic features which allow us to identify it as a text . |
| 18 | McGrath said : ‘ If I had a New Year 's wish , it would be for us and Manchester United to battle it out in a two-horse race for the Championship — and for us to win it for a lot of reasons . ’ |