Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day came when the road was flooded and Skipper waded through it with no hesitation . |
| 2 | The shirt was placed separately and Curtis jabbed at it with a thick , square forefinger . |
| 3 | but this diet is the one that Shelly , she lost quite a lot and Jill went on it for quite a while |
| 4 | Shirley Valentine fitted the bill and Paula appeared in it at the Playhouse . |
| 5 | He produced the receipt , Donleavy carefully itemized the equipment on a small yellow legal pad and Coleman signed for it with his code name , Benjamin B. |
| 6 | It was a very ill-ordered household , Mary and Claire looking after it between them in a slapdash way . |
| 7 | Boys would come from as far away as Shepherd 's Bush and Bayswater to play on it between fighting rival gangs . |
| 8 | I suppose that 's why you do n't seem to mind Nicky and Florian knowing about it after all now . ’ |
| 9 | But Tod looked at it with real feeling , with the dull heat of-I do n't know thwarted love . |
| 10 | Manning calls this conceptualization of work the ‘ threat-dangerhero ’ syndrome ( 1977 : 302 ) , which he believes is widespread amongst those who discharge ‘ Anglo-American policing ’ , while Reiner refers to it as ‘ old-fashioned machismo ’ , which he argues is widespread within the occupational culture of the police ( 1985 : 99-100 ) . |
| 11 | A succession of heavy trucks rumbled down Amwell Street as Graham turned onto it from Rosebery Avenue ; they were big grey lorries , stone or chippings carriers with great corrugated sides and a plume of dust trailing after them in the near-still air , Graham was heading slightly uphill now , and slowed his pace accordingly . |
| 12 | Reluctantly she made her way back to the house , then gave a gasp of dismay as Penry erupted from it like a rocket . |
| 13 | In case you do not read the dirty parts of the Bible , then let me remind you that the city of Sodom was earmarked for divine retribution when Abraham pleaded for it to be spared . |