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 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
5 so he goes , no he goes I , I mean it as a slovenly woman , like you 're
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 I shared it with a coloured girl who I got on with and we had a good laugh .
9 I sold it for a reasonable price .
10 " 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 .
11 Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I !
12 ‘ 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 .
13 ‘ But when I tried it as a young kid I could n't even hit the pitch for several years .
14 I found it on the barbed wire .
15 I found it in an unexpected place .
16 So I moved it to the other side of the step .
17 Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice .
18 I caught it in the other hand .
19 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 ?
20 It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape .
21 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 .
22 EPIPHONE ET-270 , 3-a-side headstock , you 've got , I want it for a reasonable price .
23 Personally , I regarded it as a good thing .
24 I picture it as a large , grey , multi-headed dragon .
25 I opposed it from the very beginning .
26 he does n't do that , I cut it with an electric cutter .
27 I agree with what you 're saying but when I 've done it before and involved the pupil in such a report I put it on a separate sheet , so that
28 So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it
29 So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom .
30 I put it with a fine one-ply in cream and the difference is amazing .
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