Example sentences of "it [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The very thought of it chills me to the bone . " |
| 2 | But it got him in the end . |
| 3 | Every time you think you 've sussed this game it kicks you in the arse . ’ |
| 4 | The Virgin bent her head to the dove in pictures of the Annunciation , and it pierced her through the ear , bringing her the Word that was life itself , down into her womb ; that was what Rosa wanted , Tommaso 's mouth next to her ear , until she , like the woman with her lover in the doorway , would wriggle and gasp . |
| 5 | It points me to the verse numbered twenty-one , and the line is : ‘ And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death . ’ ’ |
| 6 | Tony looked again at the poster — felt it drawing him to the past — the glamour of showbusiness , with its stage-door Johnnies and exciting , feminine showgirls . |
| 7 | Moreover , it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy . |
| 8 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 9 | ‘ The forgetfulness and repeating things all the time — it drives me round the bend . ’ |
| 10 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 11 | Yanto Gates broke through the blackthorn hedge which separated the Severn bank from the adjacent Berkeley to Gloucester canal towpath , and surveyed the scene before him He loved this river , but tonight , bathed in this unusually bright moonlight , it moved him to the point of goose pimples . |
| 12 | It caught her on the elbow of her right arm and sliced right through the botched teflon sutures that held the forearm below it in place . |
| 13 | It covers me for the preparation work to an industrial tribunal . |
| 14 | Mm , so what if could erm , could come up with a policy , that you pay your premiums in , but it covers you for the whole of your life . |
| 15 | If it does catch it , it knocks it to the ground and then grabs its throat in its strong jaws , killing it by suffocation . |
| 16 | What , it bash you in the back of the neck ? |
| 17 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 18 | Subtitled Diana Unclothed , it compared her to the Lady of Shallott , Greta Garbo , Sleeping Beauty and Mother Theresa . |
| 19 | So it would start the timing mechanism running at the moment it dropped it over the side . |
| 20 | As soon as you think you 've got it licked , it smacks you in the face . |
| 21 | the goal of the week … has to be the United winner against Stoke … it lifted them off the bottom of the table … |
| 22 | We all do things together and it lifted us for the game on Saturday . |
| 23 | ‘ Give us a couple o' bob an' I 'll come up the stairs an' carry the bloody fing dawn , even if it kills me in the process . |
| 24 | No it says it on the paper . |
| 25 | If it wakes him in the night , he gets angry , I 've heard him , not the actual words , just the voice low and terrible . |
| 26 | John and Mary , his second American film , did not satisfy his love of action , nor did it provide him with the opportunity to demonstrate his fine sense of place . |
| 27 | Erm tin does n't rust and it protects it from the air and water , you get 'em |
| 28 | There was enough of it to identify her as the Seren … |
| 29 | it bundles you into the Baby Austin |
| 30 | It joined me for the rest of the holiday , much to the annoyance of my fellow passengers . |