Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
2 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
5 | so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're |
6 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
9 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
10 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
11 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
12 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
13 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
14 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
15 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
16 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
17 | Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice . |
18 | I caught it in the other hand . |
19 | 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 ? |
20 | It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price . |
23 | Personally , I regarded it as a good thing . |
24 | I picture it as a large , grey , multi-headed dragon . |
25 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
26 | he does n't do that , I cut it with an electric cutter . |
27 | I agree with what you 're saying but when I 've done it before and involved the pupil in such a report I put it on a separate sheet , so that |
28 | So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it |
29 | So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom . |
30 | I put it with a fine one-ply in cream and the difference is amazing . |