Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this request the Registrar of the court acceded by ‘ entering judgement ’ for the lender who received it in writing . |
| 2 | Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel . |
| 3 | Actually , the use of this final pronominal element is quite transparently a way to regain attributive status for the adjective which precedes it , and its use with certain adjectives ( to be introduced below ) which do not genuinely occur in predicative position is thus much more significant than Bolinger allows for , showing that there are values attached to attributive status which are more important than mere position in the sentence relative to the verb , and that speakers will even seek to conform to these by devising an attributive construction which would otherwise not be called for . |
| 4 | So I mean put all this effort in the building and for the Queen they knock it down afterwards . ’ |
| 5 | ( Loss is serious if it is serious for the person who suffers it ) . |
| 6 | Next time you bite into a Chilean apple , spare a thought for the person who picked it . |
| 7 | It may be one that is large and far-reaching or it may appear relatively small and trivial but … ( of ) special significance for the person who makes it is that his choice will help to determine the pattern of his unique development over time . |
| 8 | In the first case , either interpretation is fully acceptable — it can be either Farjeon or his style of undressing which has the quality of being clumsy ; and quite possibly the existence and use of such sentences provide the interpretative syntactic basis for the type which follows it , which therefore represents in a sense a second order of syntactic patterning . |
| 9 | See the tube for the Grundig I think it wo n't help |
| 10 | Erm and I know one that I do know now said it 's Certainly , she said , it 's only for the money I do it , nothing else . |
| 11 | They agree that theological discourse does not make sense in the terms of ordinary language , but whereas for one this effectively consigns theology to the dustbin , for the other it gives it the same sort of status as speaking in tongues . |
| 12 | ‘ It berates me for the way I mistreated it last night . ’ |
| 13 | In the end I bullied Andy , I said , Andy there is something fishy about this fire he said well it 's possible he said that it was erm a display model and every time anybody came in and needed a replacement part instead of sending for the part they took it out of the display model ! |
| 14 | ‘ It 's named for the man who built it . |
| 15 | ‘ If you can oblige us with that bit of information you can turn the donkey loose and we 'll find it on the road for the man who reported it lost . |
| 16 | A program ( issue 44 ) is a file containing a series of instructions for the computer which cause it to do a particular job ( such as behave like a word processor or a flight simulator ) . |
| 17 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 18 | If for the moment we assume it to be real and unrepeated , then all other eigenvalues have smaller moduli . |
| 19 | My left knee throbbed from a wound it had received in my escape , but for the moment I ignored it . |
| 20 | Welling were originally told £2.70 , but when young Welling fans arrived for the match they found it was £3.90 . |
| 21 | The real basis of the Conservative government 's case then turns on the proposition that taxation is bad for the economy whoever levies it . |
| 22 | The prescription of an aid , however , is only the beginning of the potential improvement in learning for the pupil who uses it . |
| 23 | was as perfect as for any building that he ever saw erected ; and as for the light he thought it was rather overdone than otherwise . |
| 24 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 25 | Normally during the day I keep it shut because that 's the place we like to keep clean , in case someone happens to come over and does n't want to be knee-deep in children . |
| 26 | For example sometimes they overestimate certain works of art and you wonder you know during the sale you see it 's estimated forty to fifty thousand so you think they 'll never give it to you for less . |
| 27 | Well he he he was a sinful person , as we all are erm , I think he did not as the way I understand it , you know Jesus came perfect in everything but he had a he had a a message to give and he could give it better , I think because he had experienced so many things . |
| 28 | It is perhaps ironic that this tablet is one of the few on the market which can be interfaced with the Dragon computer as the company which makes it is the remnants of the firm which designed and built the Dragon . |
| 29 | Each letter is written in an onscreen box and a fraction of a second later , written the computer types it as the letter it believes it to be . |
| 30 | Pictured right is a saffron-gatherer whose image , painted on to a wall in Thera ( now Santorini ) in the first century BC , was preserved under ash even as the volcano which produced it was destroying civilisation on the island . |