Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said to the farmers we s you should cut grass and you get nitrates into the water and I said to the farmers er er about their slurry throwing erm a muck across the land , we know the problems that causes , I said if we came out with fertilisers which were would you buy them if it costed a bit more . |
| 2 | Fulmars from ‘ Formidable ’ were also flying patrols and on one such sortie Lt. R. MacDonald-Hall , with L/A Harry Phillips in rear seat , sighted a He111 but were unable to catch it before it disappeared into the fog . |
| 3 | Let it ring — what do I care ? thought Dyson , as he hurled himself out into the hall to catch it before it stopped ringing . |
| 4 | well I have , I 'm making adjustments , what I mean , what I 'd finished it , I did n't bother to try it cos it did n't work , now I found out why it do n't work I have to change the rod , I 've got the rod in the wrong place |
| 5 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 6 | I lunged for the meth. bottle and caught it before it hit the floor . |
| 7 | Rose left it on the coffee table by her husband 's chair , and when he had had his usual mixed fry-up and was preparing to have his snooze , his eye caught it as it lay there . |
| 8 | She tossed it up and caught it as it came slowly down . |
| 9 | Instead the Kette , led by the intrepid Müncheberg , dived after the Sunderland strafing it as it taxied to its moorings , and sinking it . |
| 10 | I did n't enjoy it when it happened the first time . |
| 11 | I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored . |
| 12 | He moved his hand and touched her breast through the robe she wore , found the nipple and stroked it until it hardened and she stirred . |
| 13 | Hilda might have enjoyed it while it lasted , but at the end she 'd have felt upset . ’ |
| 14 | Were members to pass it as it stood , this would be an arrogant move indeed : they would be considering themselves to be more sensible than people outside . |
| 15 | Under the English system of parishes every diocese had variety ; that is each parish had the Prayer Book but used it as it thought , with simple or elaborate ceremonial , and with variations of language sanctioned by the ( illegal ) Prayer Book of 1928 if it wished . |
| 16 | I charged at them , yelping encouragement to the wheelbarrow , and patting it when it had done well . |
| 17 | General , and later President , Eisenhower visited it when it became the American second General Hospital . |
| 18 | I would n't buy anything unless it had the British Standard kitemark on it to show it was safety approved , and I also went for reputable makes , taking cost into consideration , too , of course . |
| 19 | He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards . |
| 20 | Others never adopted their plans and subsequently ignored them when it suited . |
| 21 | Lifting our skirts higher and higher to avoid the water we carefully dropped them as it became shallow again . |
| 22 | It was a day lying hidden among all the other days of the year , so that she noticed nothing when it came round , and did not know what week , month , season or year it would be . |
| 23 | But , but I said but , but that thing Trem , Trem like when she said to me do n't tell you but I told you because it concerned us |
| 24 | The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ . |
| 25 | There was a rough equality between them which pleased him since it ignored and slipped through the magical armour of those clothes , the possessions , the name , the title , the carriage and four , the weight of deference and the history of servility . |
| 26 | That letter would really show her if it appeared in a magazine . |
| 27 | I do n't know how much of it he read , but the entry for May 20th must have galled him because it told him that the potential wage-earner had spent much of the day in playing cricket . |
| 28 | His hand scalded her as it moved down her body , gliding silkily over the depression of her waist , across the flat planes of her quivering stomach , and back again to the graceful sweep of her hip . |
| 29 | ‘ It will be the first time we have seen her since it happened , ’ said Mr Young , a TV repair man , before they left home at Watton , Norfolk , for the visit to the mortuary . |
| 30 | Thus , despite all the effort he had devoted to the cause of German unification , he opposed it when it came through the force of Prussian arms and Bismarckian diplomacy . |