Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , retinoic acid is insoluble in water and so would remain where we put it in the limb for some time ; this was important because we already knew that to exert its effect the grafted polarizing region needed more than 12 hours . |
| 2 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 3 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 4 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
| 5 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 6 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
| 7 | ‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin . |
| 8 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 9 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
| 10 | Rather than you selling it to the boss and then all the trouble . |
| 11 | The sister was n't in her office when she went back , so she left it in the middle of the desk : ‘ Miss Carolyn Tanner , care of Clare ’ . |
| 12 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 13 | Right and he says the wider gap , so you write it on the order form , right , it 's part of the order form close |
| 14 | You could n't face the thought of a handicapped wife so you hightailed it off the scene and out of her life . |
| 15 | Okay , so you do it with the Xs then , I did it with the numbers , that 's the easy bit . |
| 16 | Bring the very best reason you can against why you should not accept Christ and once you put it under the ga , under the scrutiny it just disintegrates . |
| 17 | ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Most of the people around the business know how to use Lotus , so we use it for the majority of our day-to-day work , the smaller and the one-off jobs . |
| 19 | ‘ So we kept it in the family , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Frankie warned me he was comin' down the street so we wheeled it into the pantry until he 'd gone . |
| 21 | The standard way to do this journey is by changing at Chester , but I am never averse to a trip on my favourite line , the Cambrian Coast , so we did it via the Ffestiniog and the Conway Valley line . |
| 22 | ‘ They spent a fortune developing the place , ’ the Maggot said , ‘ but the rich folks never came , so they sold it to the rich dickheads instead . ’ |
| 23 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 24 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 25 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 26 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 27 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 28 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 29 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 30 | And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ? |