Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
2 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
3 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
4 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
5 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
6 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
7 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
8 | I got it with the fourth one |
9 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
10 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
11 | Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice . |
12 | I caught it in the other hand . |
13 | And why does n't British Rail offer a recycling facility for my old two-inch-thick timetable , when I replace it with the new edition twice each year ? |
14 | It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape . |
15 | I want it on the biting edge between ‘ is n't it hysterically funny ? ’ and ‘ is n't it absolutely unbearably awful ? ’ it 's the working class ploy , or disabled ploy , that you joke about adversity . |
16 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
17 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
18 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
19 | So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it |
20 | So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom . |
21 | And I put it to the some of the women and men cleaners you see , How would like a rest day roster ? |
22 | No I put it in the last two times . |
23 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
24 | Will I do it on the other side ? |
25 | I remember the excitement and relief I felt when I read it for the first time as a very young nun . |
26 | When I came across Kathleen Woodward 's Jipping Street I read it with the shocked amazement of one who had never seen what she knew written down before . |
27 | ( Have I got it in the first place ? |
28 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
29 | Ludo and I hear it at the same moment . |
30 | I ca n't stand it , I hear it in the early hours . ’ |