Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 2 | he does n't do that , I cut it with an electric cutter . |
| 3 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 4 | Nigel Oliver Russell — there , I pronounce it without an encrimsoned cheek . |
| 5 | I write in the past tense because I lost it in an arctic spell of weather and for some inexplicable reason have yet to replace it . |
| 6 | ‘ I saw it as an exciting challenge and a chance to be nearer the business . |
| 7 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 8 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 9 | So , what , what word do you make it into an open question ? |
| 10 | She regarded it as an unofficial library , as remote and as Municipal as the library itself And then , one Saturday morning , she went into it with Walter Ash , to look at ( not to buy ) the text of Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon , which was being currently performed at the local rep . |
| 11 | Would you use it as an everyday mode of transport ? |
| 12 | It 's not expensive if you couple it to an off-peak Economy Seven meter . |
| 13 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 14 | Or that avocado is the only fat-containing fruit and that when you order it with an oily dressing , or with prawns in mayonnaise dressing , you are ordering one of the most fattening first courses of all ? |
| 15 | Would you write it like an actual , can you fit it in a diary or have you got to write it , the date , just , just like a proper diary ? |
| 16 | You might find yourself procrastinating , because you see it as an enormous task which will take up all your time and energy for weeks ! |
| 17 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 18 | We share it with an unwelcome assortment of fellow travellers . |
| 19 | Here , however , we write it as an integral over a portion of the 3N-dimensional configuration space represented by the N vectors rj and the 3 coordinates required for the specification of each one . |
| 20 | We also want the money quicker which erm I would have thought would more than outweigh any of the so-called extra expense that you 've got and er I said we regard it as an essential sales tool to be get m better recognition in the country so er he is progressing with the applications . |
| 21 | We regard it as an inhuman act , they say , to keep a man facing the agony of execution over a long extended period . |
| 22 | It seems to be looking straight at me , its knuckled legs poised , tense , waiting I know for one false move from me to trigger it into an electrifying spring … straight at me . |
| 23 | Instead of sending back to Britain for a , a part , they took it off an old tank you see , and on that had been part was still all right you see , but the tank was er useless but there would maybe be a bit of the track alright , so we cannibalized them . |
| 24 | Do they hold it in an unusual position-to the side rather than full-square to the eyes ? |
| 25 | It not only conflicts with their self-conscious professionalism but they regard it as an increasing anachronism in the agriculture of the 1970s . |
| 26 | They regard it as an ideal way to familiarise themselves with the latest legislative and other changes and are sometimes reluctant to delegate the task or to see it rendered unnecessary , as is the case with the microfilm system described below . |
| 27 | School officials in Pasadena , Texas have detected something satanic in the peace symbol : they see it as an upside-down broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity . |
| 28 | Although the Daily Telegraph 's reviewer thought the twenty-year-old too young for the role of Buddy , he conceded that ‘ he plays it with an infectious sense of fun . |
| 29 | After this but before the rogue was traced , the rogue took the car along to a market in Warren Street ( where dealers commonly sold cars ) and he sold it to an innocent purchaser . |
| 30 | He sold it to an American bookseller , who broke up the historic volumes that had survived the hazards of more than six centuries . |