Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Rosalind Hursthouse puts it succinctly : ‘ Unmarried . |
| 2 | David Kelly thumped it home … and the Geordie lads were away celebrating … |
| 3 | To the right of our view , the lawn sloped up a gentle embankment to where the summerhouse stood , and it was there my father ’ s figure could by seen , pacing slowly with an air of preoccupation — indeed , as Miss Kenton puts it so well , ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 4 | Richard Branson regarded it as vital that Virgin should win the case . |
| 5 | Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction . |
| 6 | That Old Mother Walsh had it right and that Ella Walsh should never have led the Church into the ways of men . |
| 7 | The civil servants in Downing Street played it humorously . |
| 8 | Why has Downing Street announced it now ? |
| 9 | A statement from the harbour-master which confirmed the conversation he had had with Mary Penrose 's father : ‘ In my opinion , having in mind recent weather conditions , the finding of the body on the west side of Kernick Head makes it almost certain that the body was placed in the water further to the west , most likely in the neighbourhood of the old sewage outfall … ’ |
| 10 | Woody Allen did it better in Oedipus Wrecks . |
| 11 | Campbells ' Richard Nelson has it right . |
| 12 | Irving Layton found it too much , this eximious union of contrasts . |
| 13 | The second from the rebound was blocked on the line by Trevor Steven , and before he had a chance to roll the ball home David Robertson lashed it away . |
| 14 | Canadian Haemophilia Society ( CHS ) president David Page dismisses it as ‘ abysmally insufficient ’ and calls Cote 's plan to introduce a means test an affront . |
| 15 | Abbot Kenneth was holding a cup of medicine to the old man 's lips , but Eachuinn Odhar pushed it away and turned , eyes hooded , to face his son . |
| 16 | David Bowsher describes it as nociceptive pain that is not receptive ( does he mean responsive ? ) to opioids . |
| 17 | Perhaps the spiral designs originated in the ‘ Bandkeramik ’ of the Danube basin and arrived in Crete by way of the Cyclades , where stone pyxides were made with spiral ornaments ; but Stylianos Alexiou thinks it more likely that the spiral came from the Middle East , where it was used in gold wire jewellery from an early date . |
| 18 | But trading standards officers Peter Pawlowski , David Ravenscroft , Kevin Mitchell and Tony Quigley plus pal David Smith decided it just was not cricket . |
| 19 | Scott Hastings put it slightly more graphically . |
| 20 | The settlement houses were as active as before but showed little sign of expansion , indeed Toynbee Hall found it increasingly difficult to attract residents . |
| 21 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 22 | ‘ We would have been far happier to continue with the old system but Middlesbrough council decided it no longer wanted to collect on our behalf , which is their prerogative , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Alexander Fleming discovered it quite early in the twentieth century . |
| 24 | And Labour consumer affairs spokesman Nigel Griffiths attacked it as ‘ yet another example of banking arrogance . ’ |
| 25 | Dr P makes it very clear that one must accept that certain pieces of writing are superior to others ; but the criteria for judging superiority are , interestingly , not very specific : |
| 26 | Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ? |
| 27 | Try to get it as a ‘ Dr Mumby does it again ’ , not just a patient story . |
| 28 | I 've got some money of my own , — at least , Aunt Millicent has it now , for my keep . |
| 29 | For someone doing something she 'd sometimes rather not , Dr Beverley Randle does it remarkably well . |
| 30 | Some South American students , for whom English was a second or third language , found it impossible to read and understand Lawrence 's play The Daughter-in-Law , a play where the use of Eastwood dialect renders it only easily accessible to those at home with varieties of regional English . |