Example sentences of "it [prep] [pers pn] and [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They do n't set their own terms about what they expect for a good quality of life , so other people do it for them and we do a bad job of it . ’
2 The closed doors would hold it for him and he would smoke it on the way back as he had smoked that earlier one on the way down from Finchley Road .
3 I do n't know but he would n't , he would n't have it cooked aboard there , my mother used to cook it for him and I 'd stagger down in an ordinary shopping basket , in two basins there 'd be vegetables in one and his pudding and gravy in the other and I used to take that down for him and he used to come ashore and he used to then go and have it .
4 The footman came and dismantled it for me and I brought a chair to the French windows , quite casually , and there was natural light coming in .
5 ’ But she bought it for me and it 's brilliant .
6 They will strive to validate it , and even prescribe it for you and everyone else : not just ‘ this is how we live ’ , but ‘ this is how one ought to live ’ .
7 ‘ She 'd well be able to but your mother has to be here , this is our home , she runs it for you and me , Benny . ’
8 I brought it for you and it 's your duty to see it put away in a decent fashion . ’
9 Why some countries rich and some countries poor , what is this thing life and what 's in it for us and what 's it all for .
10 and then we had an accident with our car door , who we took it up to erm , up to Carnthruft there and they did it for us and it , it , it 's just disappeared as a hole in n it ?
11 er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times
12 It just pulled it off him and he did n't even fight back .
13 it off her and I said she 's going mad
14 Seating herself on the edge of the bed , Theda took it into hers and her fingers closed strongly about the bony ones she held .
15 Okay , put it into it and you 'd tie your length of cotton or black thread onto the piece of cotton with a button that 's dangling down and you 'd go across the road into somebody 's front garden behind a wall or behind a hedge and just keep pulling the cotton to tap on the window .
16 He said I could leave it with him and he 'd sort it out .
17 I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor .
18 it 's got me going up to Alex saying er er no one wants to do it with me and he 's going look I 'll sleep with you man so I 'm going
19 I brought it with me and I would n't have taken the job if I could n't have continued it here .
20 Oh , but you see that , that , that does n't always apply , because if I go into the library and I take it with me and I sit by er , that gentleman who keeps handing me the paper or that lady you know
21 I covered it with mine and we looked at each other and he said , " How is he ? "
22 They know time is money so they have a policy of buying it with yours and everyone else 's .
23 you see some children ai n't got it in them and you know
24 He straightened , and she heaved one jar out of the basin , but he took it from her and she felt his strength give the heavy vessel sudden lift ; she put it down and thanked him .
25 He passed it to her and she examined it briefly .
26 He 'd never mentioned it to her and she had not even thought about it until now , but therein lay her escape .
27 She gets a smoke cos her , her brother smokes stuff and sometimes he gives it to her and she blows it in her dog 's face .
28 Certainly when my wife comes back in I 'll er I 'll mention it to her and I 'll get her to give you a ring .
29 Whoever gave it to her and whoever she told , I suppose . ’
30 ‘ Give it to me and I 'll flush it down the john , ’ she said .
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