Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
| 2 | I , I found it with utmost ease . |
| 3 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 4 | He said I know I put it on full power . |
| 5 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 6 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 7 | I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky . |
| 8 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 9 | I enjoy receiving the newsletter and I read it with great nostalgia . |
| 10 | wonderful do n't like those , do n't really wan na give you those there are right have I got it on bloody hell mum ! |
| 11 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 12 | I remember it with great nostalgia . ’ |
| 13 | " Dictatorship is coming , I state it with complete responsibility . |
| 14 | I took it on full time , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ I took it by popular demand , ’ said Kelly . |
| 16 | So I knitted it in double jacquard . |
| 17 | I wrote it on orange paper in blue ink and it all went horribly wrong when I photocopied it so I 've put an agenda on there right . |
| 18 | I have it on good assurance |
| 19 | I have it on good authority from the owner 's husband that Homme d'Affaire will take a lot of beating if the going comes up soft for the Waterloo Handicap Hurdle . |
| 20 | I have it on good authority from the owner 's husband that Homme d'Affaire will take a lot of beating if the going comes up soft for the Waterloo Handicap Hurdle . |
| 21 | I have it on good authority that I 'm likely to live . |
| 22 | Of course , America is a different story , and I have it on good authority that Harmonys still abound there . |
| 23 | I have it on good authority that Fat Sam 's pleasure is coarsing . |
| 24 | I have it on good authority from a cousin in Stockport , who has a drinking buddy who knows the car park attendant at Altrincham , that my name has already been linked with a managerial post at both Rotherham and Manchester United . |
| 25 | Furthermore , I have it on good authority that the same arkie has been invited to attend the South of England Rally this year . |
| 26 | ‘ I have it on good authority that your father is seriously considering selling , ’ he said calmly . |
| 27 | ‘ I have it on good authority that there is a waiting list of up to 50 weeks despite what the health authority says . |
| 28 | ‘ I have it on good authority that when Satan left , Christ did it but then changed them back to show he would not be tempted to eat . |
| 29 | I have it on good authority that someone living at Hempnall became very enamoured of a stray mink she found outside her house . |
| 30 | I have it on unimpeachable authority that his abiding interest is the human voice — whether the one we hear when we speak , or the one that informs and sustains us whatever we read . |