Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't never have a jinx when I had it . |
| 2 | I remember seeing a cable and I thought it was a telephone cable so I was n't worried . |
| 3 | Right well just that er it 's been resolved a bit since I handled it cos er got this meeting set up which I do n't know whether , whether you need to come , it 's on the second of February |
| 4 | I had an actor once who was condemned to hang for stealing a sheep — or a lamb , I forget which — so I got permission to have him hanged in the middle of a play — had to change the plot a bit but I thought it would be effective , you know — and you would n't believe it , he just was n't convincing ! |
| 5 | talk about it a bit before you start it . |
| 6 | Yes , I think , I mean , it varies from day to day , but as you say the rumours at the moment are that the is being upped a bit and I think it would be different . |
| 7 | A married 27-year-old estate agent admitted : ‘ There are times when , to be honest , I could n't give a shit whether she enjoys it . ’ |
| 8 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 9 | They say when you look at someone who is dead the spirit is n't there , it 's a shell because whatever made it alive has gone . |
| 10 | It 's a trick but it helps it took all the |
| 11 | It was a trick and she knew it , to ask a personal question then appear to forget it so any answer would seem to be volunteered with all the humiliation of confession . |
| 12 | Always try to look inside a PC before you buy it . |
| 13 | And , never sign a cheque before you use it . |
| 14 | I only want a bike because I want it and want it and want it . " |
| 15 | On the other hand an ambassador might refuse a present because he thought it insultingly small , because his mission had been unsuccessful , or because it seemed that the monarch he represented was about to go to war with the one whose court he was leaving . |
| 16 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 17 | Have a look before you bite it . |
| 18 | The old coppers who I knew — they used to hit hard enough to stun them , as hard as a butcher hits a cow before he kills it . |
| 19 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is not an ideal system — some day no doubt the MR will be appointed by competitive examination in Law Reports , but it is our system for the present ; and we should give our party arrangements a wrench if we throw it aside . |
| 21 | We were talking I think this is the thing about clawback , er this year our erm receipts taken into account are two point three eight million as opposed to last year er this is taken into account we drew four hundred and seventy five thousand , that 's a huge jump erm the government by in telling us we can send this er this er what I call minuscule carrot erm this year er the capital receipts from November last year until December next year erm a anyone had undoubtedly for most of that back in the in in the use er er a grant and I think it , as the government have actually kept extremely quiet on this subject , that seemed to be the scenario that seems most likely to happen . |
| 22 | huh , huh some one went , do n't because it makes a noise , put it down , no , because it makes such a noise when you pick it up |
| 23 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 24 | If only I had a stole or something to cover it up . ’ |
| 25 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 26 | ‘ And I never run a horse unless I think it 's got a real chance . ’ |
| 27 | There would be a wedding whether she liked it or not . |
| 28 | " They live on a boat because they think it 's smart . " |
| 29 | The other 140 had to rely in varying degrees on transferred votes to provide them with a quota or something approaching it . |
| 30 | I mean , a lot of guitarists get into a rut and I think it comes from the fact that their pool of influences is really limited and shallow . |