Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 2 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 3 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 4 | The weather was damp and chilly but the sleeping bag felt mighty good and I made it through the first night , sleeping like a log . |
| 5 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
| 6 | so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're |
| 7 | I commandeered it without a second thought . ’ |
| 8 | And I fought it for a long time and I wanted to get kick-started back to where I was before , because I felt under a cloud . |
| 9 | And therefore it is only because I believe this particular phrase is quite literally to do with the very crux , the very cross , of our Christian understanding that I bring it before the general assembly . |
| 10 | My sister had a baby about three months ago , and I met it for the first time when I went home . ’ |
| 11 | I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh . |
| 12 | I sold it for a reasonable price . |
| 13 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 14 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 15 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 16 | I got it with the fourth one |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't know at the time it had been in the Quakers boardroom but it was a good , handmade , solid oak table and I got it for a reasonable price , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years . |
| 19 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 20 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 21 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 22 | Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice . |
| 23 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 24 | And why does n't British Rail offer a recycling facility for my old two-inch-thick timetable , when I replace it with the new edition twice each year ? |
| 25 | It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape . |
| 26 | I want it on the biting edge between ‘ is n't it hysterically funny ? ’ and ‘ is n't it absolutely unbearably awful ? ’ it 's the working class ploy , or disabled ploy , that you joke about adversity . |
| 27 | EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price . |
| 28 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
| 29 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 30 | Personally , I regarded it as a good thing . |