Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] be [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 2 | McLeish carried over a loaded tray , and ate ravenously , noting with interest that Catherine Crane had an equally good appetite , though it was not obvious where she was putting it on that slim frame . |
| 3 | Pamela Chrimes had left for England and John wrote that Yvonne Blake ‘ is making an excellent Scarlet Woman , but her ankles are too weak for point shoes , so she 's doing it in high heels ; it looks quite nice . ’ |
| 4 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 5 | It is much easier to advocate such a policy ( i.e. to avoid making hasty decisions ) on the ground than it is to execute it in the air when presented with an unusual emergency . |
| 6 | The world 's biggest computer maker still needs this division as a supplier , but was failing to run it profitably ; so it is selling it to its managers and Clayton & Dubilier , leaving them to run it but still with a supply contract to IBM . |
| 7 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 8 | If I were to put it in er stewed apples or something I would n't eat the actual ginger but in a casserole , it 's nice . |
| 9 | If I 'm explaining it to you in terms of cos squared and idea what cos squared is I 'll have a guess then it 's not explaining . |
| 10 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 11 | In the process my middle was doubled up and it felt roughly as if somebody were squashing it between two metal plates studded with nails . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 13 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 14 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 15 | The last thing in the world she had thought of becoming was a parson 's wife , and if she were to consider it for any length of time she would refuse through lack of courage . |
| 16 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 17 | 6 The current whereabouts of the picture if you are expecting it to be returned , and a regular reminder procedure . |
| 18 | If it has the Zenith then , if you are leaving it for a long period , try pulling out the choke after it has stopped . |
| 19 | ‘ If you are comparing it to modern times it 's quite different . |
| 20 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 21 | ‘ Often the man is the only breadwinner and without him the family has to rely on state benefits — the social security system can be horrendous if you 're using it for the first time . |
| 22 | If you 're leaving it to the experts , tell your hairdresser EVERYTHING about your hair such as : |
| 23 | The only trouble is with that , if you 're changing it for different albums all the time it can wear out the gears and that . |
| 24 | And even if you 're parking it in your driveway or close to your home , lock and secure it at all times . |
| 25 | so if you 're putting it in the second half of the second term |
| 26 | Well that thing 's pretty easy if you 're doing it on the beach but what if you 're out in the water and it suddenly gusts up . |
| 27 | speed if you 're doing it in a |
| 28 | If you 're doing it by calculation , you pick one corner and draw tr |
| 29 | One if you 're increasing it by forty five percent if it was a hundred percent and you increase it by forty five hundred percent |
| 30 | If you were to define it in your mind as — " bottom of wings on top of bar " — you would be more likely to recognise that the actual attitude was , or was not , accurate . |