Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [pron] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It would be interesting to know who he gets it from . ’
2 found it I put it behind so stop the kids
3 I do n't know what you put it in somebody else 's pocket for , you 've got pockets of your own .
4 And do you know what she done it with ?
5 Will really yield what I want it to .
6 I told you I saw it on your chart .
7 I told you I did it for a bet . ’
8 But by the time I saw my husband I had chickened out of confessing the price and told him I bought it in a charity shop for 50p — how gullible can husbands be ?
9 ‘ What does it matter what I want it for ?
10 But if you phone up and they 've got one they reserve it for you but you have to get it that day , were n't it Bev ?
11 In Peart , the more authoritative case , the accused received a car from the victim when he had told him he wanted it for a certain journey .
12 Although a bit of a nuisance , it is usually cheaper and safer in the long run to run both systems together until you are 101 per cent sure that your new computer is ready and able to handle what you want it to .
13 Nonesuch can become what you want it to be .
14 ‘ I can assure you I have it on the very best authority . ’
15 ‘ That you ’ The identity of the offender can be proved by the person who took the false report stating who he took it from .
16 There is always a struggle to get language to do what you want it to ; to say , no more and no less , what you want it to say .
17 And when he has found it he lays it on his shoulders rejoicing .
18 And it 's raw linseed oil , you dip your you have it in a dish and you dip this pad into the into this dish and you put a little drop of raw linseed oil on that , and you work it in and you go round and round in circles and you you know , I mean , and that 's left .
19 If you ask them they do it for OUR good .
20 I 'll give my share to your mother and you can tell her you bought it from me ; that way she 'll be content and you 'll be a few pounds better off .
21 You 're taping it they show it to you after recording yourself then ?
22 So he shot forward , and what you are trained to do as a good removal man is you drop if you 're dropping anything you drop it on your toe or on your hand .
23 The kind of friends she had were loyal by definition , and they liked her , in their eyes she was a woman who could do no wrong ( she was only separated , mind , not divorced ) , they were ready to do any thing for her and when she would not let them they did it for the girl .
24 Every time he bought one you saw it in the papers .
25 Wonder what they do it for
26 I wonder what they did it for ?
27 If he 's going to get anything he gets it in his ears .
28 Mum asked what he wanted it for and he just said , ‘ I 've got an idea ’ .
29 Cos i if we said we we needed it in order to get some of this money
30 The latter covered a case where a tribunal is entitled to enter upon the inquiry but in the course of its investigation it does something which takes it outside of its powers and renders its decision a nullity .
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