Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when she came up yesterday I said , we 've had our dinner , I said do you want , want some dinner ? of course I put it in the oven for her |
| 2 | When I have found my tension I write it on a adhesive label and stick this on the inside of the cone , catching the tail end of yarn to the label at the same time . |
| 3 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 4 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 5 | rush and Summer slack I sell it by the yard . |
| 6 | ( Left The Lycett & Conaty radial gear , with which S.M.E.T. Nos. 1–16 were originally fitted and ( right ) the Warner gear which replaced it in the 1920s . |
| 7 | Last September Airtours bought the Pickfords Travel Service business in a deal which established it as a fully integrated holiday company with an airline , tour operations and travel agents . |
| 8 | Leonard Maltin is just one respected American critic who regards it as a ‘ classic and influential suspense-comic-horror film ’ , but it 's banned both on video and in the cinema in this country . |
| 9 | I do n't need to be reminded that it was the previous administration who put it in the structure plan but I also want to remind those who were n't here that I was utterly opposed to that at the time . |
| 10 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 11 | Small things delighted him ; when Bowler 's mother knitted him a sweater he wore it for a period continuously . |
| 12 | The smith lifted a hoof onto his thigh , then began to scrape the compacted tan and dung which clogged it with a hoofpick . |
| 13 | Astron , weighing 3½ tonnes , is in a highly elliptical orbit which takes it from a height of 2000 km up to 200 000 km , half way to the Moon . |
| 14 | The idea came in nineteen ninety two , the early part of nineteen ninety two er from Doctor Frank er who was er sitting on the Race Training Committee who approached it from the point of view we need to obviously broaden the triangle on the competitive side . |
| 15 | I brought him it , erm , a lunch box with a flask in , I said , look this flask you suck it like a straw , so get him to take that everywhere with him cos then he can have that , then he , cos you said you wanted to get him off the bottles , cos you put the straw in that |
| 16 | With grit and determination she makes it in a man 's world by hiring and firing at will . |
| 17 | John Major scholarship boy who made it to the local grammar school and was lucky to obtain patronage from the local squire . |
| 18 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 19 | There it was bought by an unidentified lady who lent it to the religious Society where it has been ever since . |
| 20 | This action by the creditor set in motion the issuing , by the clerk , of a writ or summons which was formally delivered to an officer of the Chief Bailiff who served it on the defendant at his house . |
| 21 | Disengaging his bleeding hand , Angel One wiped it on the quivering hide of his latest victim . |
| 22 | Mary had a metal cow she bought it for a tanner and every morning just at six she milked it with a |
| 23 | Me Mary had a mi metal cow she milked it with a spout , she too |
| 24 | I can do is , Mary had a metal cow she milked it with a spanner , she took it to the market and sold it for a tanner . |
| 25 | Yeah , of course you saw it as a kid , did n't you ? |
| 26 | This barn owl 's broken wing had been set by a vet who kept it in a cat cage for a week or two so that it could rest . |
| 27 | At one moment I see it as a drawing of a duck , at the next as that of a rabbit . |
| 28 | At a particularly exciting point I dropped it between the seats in front , and insisted that my parents ask the people to look for it . |
| 29 | It 's for this latter meaning I chose it as the name of my new holiday company . |
| 30 | However , as will be seen , this position is entirely in line with a view of Englishness which identifies it with a non-industrial or pre-industrial past . |