Example sentences of "[det] [noun] i [verb] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lazio doctor Claudio Bartolini , who was scared when Gazza was first injured , said yesterday : ‘ When I saw the accident again on TV I was very worried , but this morning I looked at it and now we are both very happy . |
| 2 | When ‘ neutral ’ is used in this sense I refer to it as by-product neutrality , for here neutrality may well be an accidental by-product of the agent 's action and not its intended outcome . |
| 3 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 4 | I ca n't quite make out the items on the list , however many times I go over it , or rather I ca n't make out the rooms on the staircase , or the stairs on my son 's forehead . |
| 5 | God , each time I pull on it , its muscle clenches . |