Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 We started calling them Ronnie but it got a bit confusing .
2 I dug a comb out of my bag and adjusted the driving mirror so I could sort out my hair before it dried frizzy .
3 when , in the hairdresser they put it on my hair and it went in my eye .
4 Molly removed the rags that Mary had put in my hair and it fell down in ringlets .
5 I was thinking of having extensions actually , in my hair till it grew .
6 He hardly moved it in my chest but it felt like liquid fire .
7 ‘ I would have had it done , ’ said the owner , a small , pale woman , ‘ but I 'm selling up to go and live with my sister and it did n't seem worth it . ’
8 Although the subject was never directly mentioned , it was subtly intimated in various ways that I was beholden to the Parsons for what was after all a free holiday , and was therefore expected to do rather more than my bit when it came to chauffeuring , chaperoning , shopping and suchlike chores .
9 ‘ She once mended my watch when it went wrong — ’ Malcolm was old-fashioned and liked watches made about ninety years ago in Switzerland by little hunch-backed men .
10 Within days I had changed my mind and it seemed that the only sensible form of transport would be a Sherman tank .
11 The two eldest kids are doing as well as they can and are bearing up as best as can be expected , ’ she said ‘ But my youngest boy has n't left my side since it happened .
12 Yeah but it 'd be my it 'd be my fault if it broke .
13 The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips .
14 It would be even more difficult to explain my data if it did not .
15 He was reading my data as it fed through him into the outlet .
16 Once when I was looking out the back of the palace and shots around the back and a shell hit the palace , so it came in my eyes and it hit
17 Although her decision to do so did not ultimately affect her position as one of this country 's most important early modernists , it is my contention that it had a profound effect on the development of her art in the 1920s and , possibly , for the rest of her life .
18 While I put my purchases on the sliding counter he kept patting the inside of my thigh until it drove me to desperation .
19 On the way down I had my camera tied to my waist and it started to drop ; in trying to grab it I lost my balance , got my foot caught in the tree root , took a tumble and twisted my ankle .
20 Rachel had caught my eye but it seemed her interest was in my master rather than me .
21 Mr it 's been suggested from my plaintiff that it took ten to fifteen minutes to enter and secure the flat by the firearms officers .
22 I was packing my kit when it dawned on me that the squad session would be over before I got there and that I would be concerned mainly with being kitted out as a member of the World Cup squad ’ .
23 ‘ But I decided to take my chance when it came and make it hard for Paul to get back . ’
24 I 'd wait and take my chance when it came .
25 They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out .
26 I felt the side of my head where it had hit the bus shelter ; a bruise was forming and my eye felt sore .
27 Caduta 's parting words to me — she delivered them like a war bride or mother , keeping pace with my cab as it pulled away — were as follows : " Protect me , John !
28 I consulted my conscience but it did n't put up much of a fight .
29 There were no bandages large enough in the wheelbarrow to make a cold compress , so I poured water on my sock where it touched the inflammation , but the water filled my boot and left the sock barely damp .
30 For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun .
  Next page