Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixth sense for smack ; would n't know a Poussin if it moved in next door and fucked his daughter . |
| 2 | I can remember one standard lamp we had , it was really weird and people used to say that 'll be alright if you were landing a plane cos it had spotlights , I mean now , they , erm , in fact you can still buy the same sort of thing , but then it was so way out |
| 3 | This was a sort of Blue Peter for the gastronomically challenged for the clumsy truth is , of course , that either Mr Mayle or the adaptor of his book feared that WE would n't recognise a truffle if it crawled up our trouser leg . |
| 4 | Dropped a tile and it pierced it right the way through . |
| 5 | No creature , Sartori had taught , passed through this Dominion unrecorded , even to the least — to the child that perished a heart-beat after it opened its eyes , the child that died in the womb , drowned in its mother 's waters — even that unnamed thing had its record and its consequence . |
| 6 | He could not guarantee he would be able to deliver it on the day and she billed it as a surprise film so she could show a reserve if it failed to arrive . |
| 7 | Lotus is believed to have devoted $30m over four years developing a database that it cancelled in 1989 — just before it bought a 15% stake in Sybase Inc , sold again in 1992 . |
| 8 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 9 | Teesside magistrates heard how the two Middlesbrough men used an electronic tagging device to track a terrier as it bore down on badgers in a well known sett . |
| 10 | Quality control had become terribly sophisticated during the er war time era When i a people realized it actually took longer to inspect a bullet than it did to manufacture it . |
| 11 | To liberate desire from oppression is not — could never be — a matter of resuming or regaining a desire/subjectivity as it existed prior to discrimination . |
| 12 | Thus we 've never considered it right to hand out cheques on a mere whim , deciding to sponsor a project , or support a charity because it happened to be the flavour of the month , or because a director had some some particular keen interest in it . |
| 13 | Her napkin had been folded to resemble a half-shell and it stood upright , unsupported . |
| 14 | Jenkins shoved me into a chair , then twisted a desklamp until it shone in my face . |
| 15 | So there came a point when it made sense to change that particular balance . |
| 16 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 17 | She said she 'd seen a spaceship and it had frightened her . ’ |
| 18 | He submitted that the order itself had made a compromise because it contained the words ‘ counterclaim withdrawn ’ and because it dealt with the rent so that the plaintiffs had no further claim in respect of it . |
| 19 | Boenninghausen had previously produced a repertory but it contained many more remedies under each heading than Kent 's repertory , which is easier to use . |
| 20 | Anyway , the Masai threw a spear and it struck the DO . ’ |
| 21 | And if anybody had got a cow and it calved , we used to go to him and say could we have the beastlings , please . |
| 22 | I noticed Nick Faldo was pulling a trolley and it made me curious . |
| 23 | In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how . |
| 24 | This man , who told Huy that he only went to the place to drink , never having had a problem when it came to finding a girl , was looking urgently for somebody to work on his paperbeating team as one of his men had died suddenly from river fever . |
| 25 | The societies , plus Abbey National — which became a bank when it floated in 1989 — currently have a market share of about 85% , with banks and centralised lenders such as The Mortgage Corporation accounting for most of the remaining 15% . |
| 26 | Brazil made a start when it set up its Grupo Interministerial in 1986 , with representatives from planning , Industry and Commerce , Finance , Science and Technology . |
| 27 | Only the wind made a sound as it streamed along the sides of the Rover and poured through the open windows . |
| 28 | The last English case in point is Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , a decision by Romer J. The corporation owned a cemetery and it charged the plaintiff , a monumental mason , fees for permission to cut , recut , repaint and regild inscriptions on monuments and stones in the cemetery . |
| 29 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 30 | The strikes ended on Jan. 23 , the day on which the government rushed legislation through the People 's Assembly enshrining the right to strike , but obliging workers to give 15 days ' notice of stoppages , and authorizing the Assembly to suspend a stoppage if it threatened the national interest . |