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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 5 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 6 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 7 | Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice . |
| 8 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I opposed it from the very beginning . |
| 13 | So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it |
| 14 | So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom . |
| 15 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 16 | Will I do it on the other side ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 19 | I ca n't stand it , I hear it in the early hours . ’ |
| 20 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 21 | I hawked it around the great Guardian brains , chaps with double firsts from Oxbridge , and none could help . |
| 22 | When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight . |
| 23 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 24 | Can I take it towards the wrong one ? |
| 25 | Councillor I I had to admit that I 'm slightly lost in that one A now ends as I understand it with the roman numeral three that was proposed in the labour amendment . |
| 26 | Just beyond Fort Augustus a trace of their road may still be found ; now impassable , it must have been a fearful route : the climb up to any height of it is ferociously demanding — or else I hit it at the wrong spot . |
| 27 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 28 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 29 | So I took it to the British Museum , who identified it for me . |
| 30 | I thrust it towards the lashing chain . |