Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was already half full with stagnant rain water , so Mildred filled it to the brim , then carried it back to the yard window-sill , collecting her broomstick on the way . |
| 2 | Brideshead Revisited ( 1945 ) is a prime example , and , although Waugh wrote it in a spirit of retrospection , he also added in a preface of 1959 , ‘ It was impossible to foresee , in the Spring of 1944 , the present cult of the English country house . ’ |
| 3 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 4 | However , no sooner was the intrigue launched than Baldwin killed it by the simple expedient of deciding to remain in office and meet Parliament . |
| 5 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 6 | The horse was totally confused by now and it eased forward in the shafts not knowing what to do next , until Broomhead reminded it with a few well-chosen obscenities . |
| 7 | And if Robin gets it in the neck I shall get it in the neck and I shall be getting it in the neck because of you ! |
| 8 | In VR6 form as tested , it is also a particularly expensive little coupe , virtually double the price of the old Honda CRX which pioneered then dominated a limited niche market until Honda turned it into a two-seater ugly duckling . |
| 9 | The regional tourist boards should now be strongly supporting the need for the national framework , for guidance and assistance that can only come from a central body — yet they dare not speak too loudly for fear that their reduced funding will be cut even further if DoNH reallocates it to the national level . |
| 10 | It brought forth a flood of French until Jenna stopped it with a rather desperate admission that she did not speak the language . |
| 11 | Cos Paul put it on the next day . |
| 12 | We know that Stein had designed an escapement action by 1777 because Mozart describes it in a letter of that year . |
| 13 | Israel perceived its military supremacy as essential for its safety , while Syria regarded it as a mortal threat to its own interests . |
| 14 | For example , if the only way to be a subject is to be constituted by the existing ISAs , how are we to explain the fact that a theorist such as Connolly is so convinced of the necessity of intentional subjecthood , while Althusser views it as a contingency ? |
| 15 | She told her many tales of the days during the Great War when John was a baby and he and his mother had lived with her and Lawrie , as they sat together , Sally holding a skein of white wool while Anne wound it into a ball . |
| 16 | Silence fell , hanging over them for several minutes before Travis broke it with a casual observation . |
| 17 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 18 | It took a further five minutes before Blenkinsop made it to the phone , but to Amiss 's relief , he appeared to be both sober and reasonable : indeed he was giving a rather creditable imitation of a normal club secretary . |
| 19 | It was a revelation after the pain of trotting and Nails was cross when Nutty brought it to an end . |
| 20 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 21 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 22 | There is a ‘ barrier ’ between the attractive and the unattractive — between , as Graham puts it on a later occasion , the ‘ beggars ’ and ‘ choosers ’ of the sexual life . |
| 23 | The music is lost , but Cavalieri 's contemporaries agree that it was he who , as Peri put it in the preface to his Euridice ( 1600 ) , ‘ before anyone else made our music ’ ( i.e. the ‘ nuova maniera di canto ’ ) ‘ heard on the stage ’ . |
| 24 | Furthermore , as Martov put it at the 1903 congress , all members of the party should be concerned with the disabilities of minorities , not just the minority itself . |
| 25 | As Leonard expressed it in the poem which — in title and texture counterbalances the title of the book : |
| 26 | But you ca n't argue with the propulsion of ‘ No Hard Shoulder To Cry On ’ , the inventiveness of ‘ Slow Rider ’ and the odyssey inscribed in ‘ Safe Surfer ’ ( though you do worry when Cope loses it in the mid-section ) . |
| 27 | As Khrushchev camped it in a georgette gown . |
| 28 | Moses ' staff changed into a snake when Aaron threw it to the ground before Pharaoh . |
| 29 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 30 | As Bauer put it in a recent BBC television discussion of covert recognition , ‘ Our normal experience of perception , of seeing objects or faces as an all or none process , is a trick that the brain plays on us ’ . |