Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Ann wrote it for last year , for my ri |
| 2 | The saxophonist 's widow refused to lie in Ken and Rhoda 's bed , so Ken offered it to Bernard and Ellen : they took the offer , rightly , as a gesture of approval , and the four of them carried it one very early morning from No. 97 to No. 93 . |
| 3 | It was already half full with stagnant rain water , so Mildred filled it to the brim , then carried it back to the yard window-sill , collecting her broomstick on the way . |
| 4 | In many places there were at least elements of spontaneity and although Duiker compares it with Trotsky 's description of the Bolshevik revolution as , for the most part , being a ‘ revolution by telegraph ’ , Khanh says that most places acted without instructions from the Central Committee . |
| 5 | ‘ So Ballater sold it to you ? ’ he said ‘ I see , ’ He added , I think the kitten had burnt its tongue . ’ |
| 6 | Haydn was ill and could not complete his commission in time , so Mozart finished it for him . |
| 7 | Brideshead Revisited ( 1945 ) is a prime example , and , although Waugh wrote it in a spirit of retrospection , he also added in a preface of 1959 , ‘ It was impossible to foresee , in the Spring of 1944 , the present cult of the English country house . ’ |
| 8 | I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’ |
| 9 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , you lovely feller , not 'alf I would n't , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I was too weak to eat the cheese roll , so Bessie ate it for me . ’ |
| 11 | However , no sooner was the intrigue launched than Baldwin killed it by the simple expedient of deciding to remain in office and meet Parliament . |
| 12 | Once Dawn took it into her head to attempt a sudden flight , jumped up in the air and found herself agonisingly caught , because of the tenderness round her feet under the jesses . |
| 13 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 14 | The horse was totally confused by now and it eased forward in the shafts not knowing what to do next , until Broomhead reminded it with a few well-chosen obscenities . |
| 15 | That one 's a bit burnt cos Bernie left it on top of the cooker Where 's the dog ? |
| 16 | They 'll shatter if Suragai pulls it at full stretch . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , mi mind you , though , if Pete does it with everyone , then it 's a change to what 's been going on usually , it would be nice for a change . |
| 18 | The theory of the ISAs would indeed be very crude if Althusser left it at that but he completes the essay with a discussion of ideology , the mode in which the ISAs function . |
| 19 | And if Robin gets it in the neck I shall get it in the neck and I shall be getting it in the neck because of you ! |
| 20 | Fawcett said that this sounded very important and that if Pons sent it to him he would rush it through . |
| 21 | Cos Rita assembled it for us . |
| 22 | In VR6 form as tested , it is also a particularly expensive little coupe , virtually double the price of the old Honda CRX which pioneered then dominated a limited niche market until Honda turned it into a two-seater ugly duckling . |
| 23 | The regional tourist boards should now be strongly supporting the need for the national framework , for guidance and assistance that can only come from a central body — yet they dare not speak too loudly for fear that their reduced funding will be cut even further if DoNH reallocates it to the national level . |
| 24 | It brought forth a flood of French until Jenna stopped it with a rather desperate admission that she did not speak the language . |
| 25 | Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , has bought its first Poussin drawing , the ‘ View of the Tiber Valley ’ , attributed to Claude until Blunt gave it to Poussin , ( £156,450 , est. £70–100,000 ; NACF , NHMF , the Hulme Fund , and the Friends of the Ashmolean and the Purchase Grant Fund support ) . |
| 26 | It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies . |
| 27 | I did n't know a thing about it until Rob sprang it on me this afternoon . ’ |
| 28 | Cos Paul put it on the next day . |
| 29 | ‘ If Armitage did it in conjunction with Latimer , that explains the window , the lurking on the gallery , and the presence of Latimer acting suspiciously in the area at just the time the murder was committed . |
| 30 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |