Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 2 | and if I 'd got something big and heavy you used to say to me bring it down and put it in my big machine . |
| 3 | Give the children a simple message and ask them to pass it along and see what it becomes at the end . |
| 4 | It 'd make me pack it in and go to Canada if I was younger , but you ca n't leave England , can you ? ’ |
| 5 | I did that at Selby 's , I had the decoder , the new cabinet , everything , I had the decoder there hanging on the floor like that , I wired it up and I pressed extension sixteen and away it went , it said four there and the display decoder was there about ten extensions |
| 6 | My Lords , er the principle of co-option has been described as by a number of Your Lordships as an extension of principal of democracy , but I call on my experience not as er of a year as er Minister for the Police under my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw , but my three years as Minister for the Prison Service er and er in that er service , there was erm in each prison a Board of Prison Visitors and I observed during that time that the membership of the prison population was becoming increasingly black , but that the membership of the er Boards of Prison Governors was remaining stubbornly white and I er put it , I made it then that I thought there should be something to redress this balance er the system is as it were a supervised co-option , the local er Board makes a proposal and the Minister approves or does n't , but also I had to refuse five successive of proposed co-options of white members to an all-white prison board for a prison which was predominantly black in population because it was alleged there were no suitable black people available . |
| 7 | the one I make , I made it once and you liked it with the almonds on top |
| 8 | I swooped it so that on each pass it caught the top of the dam wall with one corner , gradually producing a nick in the sand barrier which the water was able to flow through , quickly going on to overwhelm the whole dam and the sand-house village beneath . |
| 9 | So I bring it back because we said we would consider it further . |
| 10 | We can not go so far as that ; and I lay it down as fact that there never has been a real complete sceptic . |
| 11 | I sold it once when I was skint for fifty quid , that was before I was married . |
| 12 | I make it up as well |
| 13 | I pick it up and brush it over my hand . |
| 14 | And I pick it up and it says Loughborough Building Society and you can see about half a percent er premium rate on fifty thousand pounds , and you think that might be worth going for , for , for somebody who 's got a lot of capital , but is it really , because if you 've got fifty thousand in there , you are at risk . |
| 15 | Yeah , all I 've got to do then is send , send it in and I 'll phone them and say well can I cash it up and still on the club and they 'll say yes but I 'll have to get up and get round there tomorrow then |
| 16 | I checked it off when I got back and it 's not too bad . |
| 17 | How we all laughed when I got it home and realised I ca n't play ! |
| 18 | I hate hurting you , I hate it more than anything else in the world , but I did hurt you , and I 'd sooner die than do it again . ’ |
| 19 | At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me . |
| 20 | I tried it on and it fitted well enough . |
| 21 | yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ? |
| 22 | I tried it once and it nearly killed me . |
| 23 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 24 | ‘ I found it just before Jack Bernstein rang . |
| 25 | In fact , I found it more than acceptable for demo and even semi-pro quality master tapes , and it 's perfect for , say , making albums for selling at gigs . |
| 26 | I found it more or less buried in the mud , underneath where the body had been . |
| 27 | ‘ I visited it once or twice too often before you were born , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Considering the tenoning half of his design , I modified it so that it could quickly accommodate a different pair of blocks for each differently angled tenon . |
| 29 | I say it again and the man looks at me a bit angry like . |
| 30 | And then I say it properly and she 's got it then you see ? |