Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 2 | Nothing happened so I put it in a box without a lid and went shopping . |
| 3 | So I put it in a rock this time and it was so funny though . |
| 4 | So I left it up a side street and got a taxi back to the studio where I was due to appear . |
| 5 | So I left it for a while , and I thought I will phone her and find out . |
| 6 | So I sprayed it with a fine spray and it 's kept very well , had n't it ? |
| 7 | So I chipped it into a little space over the scrum , ran round , picked it up and went up the middle of the field . |
| 8 | She had forgotten or erased his face , and so she saw it through a blur , but his body was naked , exactly as she had remembered it , golden-white , muscular and slender , the black mass at the groin and out of it the penis rising dark amber-red . |
| 9 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 10 | So she approaches it in a better frame of mind . |
| 11 | So you raise it to a power , multiply the indices , when it comes out as a fraction , it does n't matter how you |
| 12 | so we keep it in a canvas jacket |
| 13 | Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ? |
| 14 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 15 | remains something of a mystery , but perhaps they took it as a reference to our well-known problems with fractured sewer pipes and the directive from Europe . |
| 16 | So they cover it with a mattress , and disguise the mound with piles of old clothes . |
| 17 | But perhaps he preferred it to a haunted house , because , as he saw it , that would require metaphysics as well . |
| 18 | Obviously he put it across a lot better than what I did but the actual message of getting that across |
| 19 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 20 | So he marked it with a paperclip for copying , put it back in its manila folder , ‘ wiped off all my fingerprints ’ , and hid it ‘ out of an abundance of caution ’ in the stack of other papers to be copied . |
| 21 | well have a square one , but where , half way up in between the fish pond and the lawn I was thinking of come in , in again with the edge both sides , sort of like , where it goes , where they go straight , come in sort of like plant two there or three there , two there , one there , you see so it does it into a point again , both sides you get two |
| 22 | And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss . |
| 23 | At first I was humiliated to tears ; later I became hardened ; later still I accepted it as a fact and did not even try to deny it . |
| 24 | Quickly they built it into a pyramid over the torch . |
| 25 | And by early autumn , Mr Major was preparing for the worst — and yesterday he delivered it in a statement to the Commons . |
| 26 | When I say , ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ , am I saying that I have a certain Lockean visual sensation — that is , that the figure appears to me , in a non-concept-dependent sense of ‘ appears ’ , in a certain way — which I have found I always have when I am led by the accompanying text to apply the figure in a certain way ? |
| 27 | If ‘ Now I see it as a duck ’ did mean this , then the sensation would have to be such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a duck ’ and not such as to lead to the judgement ‘ a drawing of a rabbit ’ . |
| 28 | That first meeting had been shortly after she and her mother had moved into the house on the banks of Loch Lomond , and even now she remembered it as a magical time . |
| 29 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 30 | In democratic states , and even in those which see themselves as having a so-called information society ( even we define it as a society which offers increased access to information ) , some forms of censorship will be as much a part of the fabric of society as in a despotic state . |