Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwin Keith gave Bordon a handy lead with two headed goals , but a rare lapse in defence enabled Beaumont to pull one back and it remained 2–1 at the interval . |
| 2 | He had a strand of her hair in his fingers ; he played with it , twisting it round until it curled . |
| 3 | I 'll catch it now before it does . |
| 4 | He drew it out where it rested on his palm . |
| 5 | If you have failed to brief them properly then they have little option but to either put it on hold or send it back as it came out and let you sort it out . |
| 6 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 7 | A silver cup whizzed an inch wide of her father 's ear ; her eldest brother caught it just before it sailed out of an arrow-slit window . |
| 8 | cos the egg white would have fluffed it up and it 'd more |
| 9 | The atmosphere has to find it somewhere so it goes after the molecules locked in the glazes and that 's when the real magic happens . ’ |
| 10 | She would redesign the apartment , transform it so that it became a proper home , a space where friends could come , a place for gatherings , a home like the Princesse 's which always hummed . |
| 11 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 12 | I tried it on and it fitted well enough . |
| 13 | yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ? |
| 14 | At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me . |
| 15 | ‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’ |
| 16 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 17 | Simon by then had heavily said , ‘ This hurts me more than it hurts you ’ to Pippa , and when the chaos was over Thomas began to laugh , for he had seen that the lash of the crop literally had curled round onto Simon 's back between each stroke , probably quite stingingly , though the man had been too excited to notice it . |
| 18 | The war affected me chiefly as it affected my personal affairs . |
| 19 | This is a highly competitive field and I did n't want them to rule me out when it comes to promotion because they think I lack commitment . |
| 20 | I 'd make it me business to er yes and course it was to his trade good jobs as he 'd done for customers , had it done so well , they told somebody else and it brought in trade , see what I mean ? |
| 21 | So far , she had answered everything scrupulously as it came , but the volume threatened to defeat her . |
| 22 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 23 | We 'll just have to set it once but it has n't done it . |
| 24 | Right and it goes like these great funnels spread it Now as it goes down it gets caught down . |
| 25 | For example , a DC which has been entered but not assessed by everybody can easily be removed by persuading someone to reject it , or by aborting it immediately after it has been agreed . |
| 26 | So I threw the I put some thirty , thirty six on my hand , I put it on and it went hard |
| 27 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 28 | They never put it down if it goes up do they ? |
| 29 | wide brim things and put it down and it comes down here on me |
| 30 | and put it so that it goes over your feet |