Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up . |
| 2 | Blood ran from his face where I had cut it , but I had fought too many fights that night . |
| 3 | Where I 've wet it what 's it done to it ? |
| 4 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 5 | Paul 's ring was on the bedside cabinet , where she 'd placed it , and her handbag … |
| 6 | She looked the same as usual ; untidy , a hole in her coat where she 'd caught it on a hook in the yard . |
| 7 | Then , obeying an impulse she barely understood , she took the silver medallion out of the inner pocket of her bag , where she 'd zipped it for safekeeping , and fastened the chain round her neck . |
| 8 | She removed her hand from Owen 's arm , where she had placed it . |
| 9 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 10 | From where she stood it shimmered in silver under a glancing sun , though upstream at the inn , where she had seen it close to , it rolled darkly brown and turgid , and laden with the debris of bushes , for the spring thaw had come late and violently , bringing down an immense weight of snow-water from the mountains of Wales . |
| 11 | The hammer was no longer where she had dropped it . |
| 12 | She walked up the path and leant wearily against the wall while she dug in her bag for her key , then groaned when she remembered that it was still lying on the floor of the car park where she had dropped it . |
| 13 | Susan 's head lay where she had rested it , one arm curled round , the other hanging so that her fingertips brushed the floorboards . |
| 14 | As the song was ending , Christina raised her head from his shoulder where she had rested it while they danced — and found herself looking straight into the hard , intimidating gaze of Jean Reece-Carlton , who was being escorted around the floor by a martyred-looking Robert Leyton . |
| 15 | As she was still naked , Rex had no idea where she had produced it from . |
| 16 | The gun lay on the covers , where she had put it down while they were talking . |
| 17 | There , lying on the Woman 's chair , where she had left it , was her gun . |
| 18 | But as it was no longer where she had left it , then it must have done , unless someone had shot into Rose Cottage and stolen it while Cassie had been sitting on the loo . |
| 19 | Her radio stood where she had left it , on the table . |
| 20 | Her sewing basket sat on the kitchen table where she had left it , after lunch . |
| 21 | He was silent , as she carefully replaced his sleeping member where she had got it from , and buttoned his fly . |
| 22 | 1pm : Home to Mrs Fishfinger 's sumptuous lunch , not in the least spoiled by al fresco picnic off the Fishouse Floor where she 's left it . |
| 23 | No you did n't like that one whe where you 've had it in the water did you ? |
| 24 | To decide if the Goblin lands where you have aimed it roll both the scatter dice and the artillery dice . |
| 25 | If the scatter dice rolls a HIT then the missile lands where you have aimed it . |
| 26 | If the scatter dice rolls a HIT then the missile lands where you have aimed it . |
| 27 | Do not add fat to any of the food ( except where we have specified it ) , and preferably omit salt too . |
| 28 | For a band now irritated by most dance music — ‘ most of it 's cack , I hate going into bars where they 've got it blaring out from everywhere , you ca n't hear yourself think ’ — and uncomfortable with the accoutrements of clubbing — ‘ I ca n't stand being under strobes no more , do me head in , make me lose my balance ’ — it was inevitable the Mondays would rake up their rock roots , ‘ mature ’ their sound and make a major musical transition . |
| 29 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 30 | A well-established tradition holds owners to be morally entitled to their property where they have obtained it by way of an uncoerced transfer from someone who received it in a similar manner , subject to the property having been originally taken into private ownership by a legitimate process of acquisition . |