Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 2 | I carried mine , then I put it in my pocket and further along the route I gave it to someone in the crowd . ’ |
| 3 | But erm when we , by the time we got into Hull I heard it on the radio what had happened and we went to the toy fair and then we came back and there was er you could see all the ambulances and everything still there . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 6 | Thing was in fairness Martin er er it 's actually the sociability side er both both of you talked about the house did n't you and how , how long you came here and of course I changed it to how , the directions er which you gave me now |
| 7 | ‘ Although when I approach a part I link it to someone I 've observed in real life , with drawing this observation is a much closer examination . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I wish it was Friday I want it to be the weekend man . |
| 10 | Have you seen that advert on the telly I love it with George the boxer ? |
| 11 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | rush and Summer slack I sell it by the yard . |
| 14 | It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex . |
| 15 | Or are we to suppose that Capitalism having been displaced by Socialism in the Marxist version , work with all the disagreeable characteristics which turn it into toil or boredom will have been reduced to the bare minimum necessary to sustain society and that a consequent and vast increase in the leisure will enable us to fulfil ourselves ? |
| 16 | But whichever approach one adopts , market coordination has characteristics which differentiate it from hierarchies and networks . |
| 17 | I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off . |
| 18 | ‘ We set out to pay the last mournful duties through a road almost impassable with snow which continued to fall with a boisterous wind which blew it into immense drifts . |
| 19 | Firstly it is clear that whatever contingencies entered into the writing of the Treatise , Keynes himself intended it as a major contribution to economic theory , free-standing and internally valid in all circumstances . |
| 20 | Ten years of Reagan armament which allowed it to , also bankrupted it ; without the USSR as enemy , not even the United States will permanently keep up this level , and if they wanted to , they could no longer afford it . |
| 21 | Kahnweiler throughout his life was to maintain that the painting was unfinished , and on occasion was even to assert that Picasso himself saw it in this way . |
| 22 | There was fierce criticism of the government from centre-left opposition parties which accused it of aggravating conditions leading to the crisis by appeasing religious extremists . |
| 23 | Its circulation had grown enormously as immigrants flooded into Tollemarche , and it had expanded into the shops which flanked it on either side . |
| 24 | ( 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 . |
| 25 | In ‘ The Sunday Morning Fuddle ’ the insufferably sentimental parlour ballad ‘ Before the Bells Did Ring ’ is given new words which turn it into a comic epic about Sunday morning boozing , in which the hero ends up so ‘ fuddled ’ he is arrested ( Ex. 1.10 ) . |
| 26 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It had a depth and penetration which separated it from most other consultants ' reports of the time . |
| 29 | The metal was originally exploited by the Indians of Colombia and Ecuador who recovered it in the form of grains and occasional nuggets from gold-bearing alluvial deposits of rivers draining into the Pacific . |
| 30 | The difference being , that if it 's a saucepan then obviously a saucepan you lift it with one hand and if it 's full of hot water or something then you 'd have to be careful . |