Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My nose was running again , and my thumb was throbbing where I 'd cut it on the piece of glass in the bin . |
| 2 | The whole thing seemed faithfully in the past , where we could regard it with intense interest , and surround it with historical debate , but where it could do us , and our generation , no harm . |
| 3 | First , all the activity may be confined to the summit crater at the top of the volcano , just where one might expect it to be . |
| 4 | Almost immediately they began working out the details of their new counselling service — or , as they preferred to call it , their chat-line — and how and where they could fit it into their already busy schedule . |
| 5 | I compared myself to a dog who has got hold of a large piece of meat , and runs away with it to a corner , where he may devour it in peace , without any fear of others taking it from him . ’ |
| 6 | She had the Monument built on top of the hill so everyone could see it as a landmark . |
| 7 | I shall not be gratified for a benefit , although I may return it in the hope of future benefits ; similarly I shall not avenge injuries except as a deterrent to future injuries . |
| 8 | I do not want to play games in colour on my TV , I can do household accounts with a piece of paper and a pencil , I can learn languages easier from a book and a tape recorder , if I want information I can look it up and read it far faster than I can get it from a screen and I can turn back with a nip of the finger and read it again . |
| 9 | In the meantime , I am always obedient to the Whips , so I shall leave it at that . |
| 10 | No , but my mum 's coming afterwards so I 'll give it to her then |
| 11 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 12 | ‘ People would n't play it , so I used to tape it from John Peel 's show . |
| 13 | I started playing when I was seven , so by the time The Stones happened it was not difficult for me to play , so I could appreciate it for the music alone . |
| 14 | She caught on pretty quickly , so I would go home each nigh to teach myself something new so I could share it with her the next day . |
| 15 | Please send me a subscription so I can cancel it in disgust . |
| 16 | I find it difficult to put my thoughts and feelings about this into words , so I will leave it to others . |
| 17 | Is the person likely to feel coerced , even although you may consider it to be the best course of action for the individual ? |
| 18 | Although you can run it inside Toolkit , ViVerify has to be run from the command line to get the most from it . |
| 19 | Into Lucy 's keeping , so she could give it to him and with it , he could challenge the system that had tormented him and millions of the innocent . |
| 20 | To gather signatures for the petition was a formidable task indeed , because it had to be back in Helen Martini 's hands by the following Thursday , so she could present it to No. 10 Downing Street on Friday 15 March . |
| 21 | It 's all hard and cold , but Marie laughs and turns me round so she can see it from all sides . |
| 22 | Okay , and you 've done , you 've done that on one bit of the fraction , so you must do it on the top as well . |
| 23 | But check that your 512Kb card has some free memory sockets so you can upgrade it to 1Mb or more later on . |
| 24 | A fire blanket is the best way of smothering chip-pan and frying-pan fires , and has loops so you can lower it over the pan without burning your hands . |
| 25 | Erm , going to somehow , at the moment we 're thinking of well Jean 'll wan na do it , but I 'm I 'm thinking of doing some kind of I mean , we 're agreed on what we 're gon na do , but it 's how we do it , I want some ka er , some kind of grilling around the top , the cocktail bar area , so you can open it as a , as a bar , and it 'll have a sort of atmosphere in itself , so we open that as a pub type of thing , you know . |
| 26 | You 'll be doing it on your own so that 's what I want you to do to get so you can do it on your own . |
| 27 | That 's right so you can do it on leaded light , you can do it on handles , but either you lay it on the customer right , which do you prefer ? |
| 28 | Okay so you can view it as a as a single neuron with some er decoders . |
| 29 | To get the most from this package you need to print your finished designs so you can pin it on your wall or desk , and scrawl on it . |
| 30 | The pattern is different each time you run the program so you can watch it for hours ! |