Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] it [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched it in first and I went |
| 2 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 3 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |
| 4 | Last girl to leave turns it off at night , then I puts it on next morning . |
| 5 | Her face was straight as she looked at him and she spoke the truth when she answered , ‘ I liked it at first ; it was like a holiday after school , but not so of late . ’ |
| 6 | Have you got it from last wee the week before ? |
| 7 | She hated it at first , she would n't drive it . |
| 8 | But she hated it at first . |
| 9 | You wo n't have to live with the car that draws attention to itself with a banshee wail every time you floor it in 2nd . |
| 10 | ‘ Good point , but you call it in first . ’ |
| 11 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |
| 12 | When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it |
| 13 | Could we , could we have it from next Tuesday in my room ? |
| 14 | Is it worthwhile talking about it now or shall we leave it til next week ? |
| 15 | They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 . |
| 16 | But I do n't know if it 's still there , is thing they put it in last year I think , but I . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not going to worry about it now , ’ said Pam , resolutely , ‘ but if they leave it like last time , I 'll kill them . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah and you feel obliged to them to have it for next to nothing |
| 19 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 20 | I mean , he bought it for next to nowt . |