Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sling it open , off my guard thinking it 's Lucker . |
| 2 | As regards res as my friend put it in opening , |
| 3 | If one is then to try and specify the grounds upon which it would be right for the court to intervene I do not for my part find it particularly helpful to speak in terms of special or extraordinary cases as distinct from normal cases . |
| 4 | I do n't know where your plectrum is , I expect it 's on the floor somewhere waiting for my hoover to get it ! |
| 5 | I heard enough to make me think it worth my while to talk it over . |
| 6 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 7 | Discovered in 1844 , it was called Peyronne 's chloride after its discoverer to distinguish it from another complex with the same formula , known as trans- DDP . |
| 8 | Yanto arranged to pick them up outside Sharpness Coop Sunday morning , after which Mary said it was time for her to go home . |
| 9 | Needless to say voluntary bodies are very nervous about that , because they have difficulty contracting to provide a service when they are totally dependent on unpaid volunteers , and therefore there is reluctance on their part to , to enter into contracts that bind them to provide something where they are uncertain about their ability to do it . |
| 10 | But there 's still enough to make it worth their while doing it . |
| 11 | It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum . |
| 12 | She had her hand on the door , but , before she could follow through her intention to slam it in his face , Naylor gave a mighty roar of utter outrage . |
| 13 | The most obvious clue to its presence is its movement , so in order for its camouflage to work it must be prepared to remain very still for long periods of time , or at least to alter its position very slowly and gently . |
| 14 | Unix System Labs got so excited about its China deal it called in a television crew and had a video done up . |
| 15 | The markings about its eyes made it savage , wolf-like , but it was only a fox , more discomposed than she at the meeting . |
| 16 | An l.e.d. requires 2V approximately between its ends to make it work and the output from the stereo would hardly achieve this or might only do so intermittently with loud sounds . |
| 17 | It 's not lost geographically being lost , you know where you are , you know when you 're , you know , you know your situation in time , in space , i in in geographic location , you know what you 're doing and all the rest of it , when the bible uses the word lost it means lost for the purpose for which God intended it . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll scream the place down , I 'll tell Bessie you tried to ruin me virtue , I 'll tear some of me clothes to prove it . ’ |
| 19 | This was eventually made doubly plain when each member of my crew took it in turn to brief me on his particular duties , and I in turn had to perform in his position . |
| 20 | Personally , I am rather too fond of my sanity to risk it in this way . |
| 21 | Plus the fact that one of my friends thought it was a really funny idea if she stuck half a in one of my drinks and I almost died so that 's beside the point . |
| 22 | One or two of my friends made it their business to send me the cutting from the Paternoster Review . |
| 23 | I would n't go out of my way to watch it , but it as it was a school thing it was OK . |
| 24 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 25 | As one of my comrades put it : " One bloke tried it and finished up in the Glasshouse . |
| 26 | Most of my constituents find it amazing that that part of the road is missing , given that it is a planned and agreed eastern relief road for city traffic . |
| 27 | However , one still hears all sorts of rumours to the effect that it is possible for others to obtain information , yet one or two of my constituents found it difficult to obtain information about the identity of a car owner involved in an accident . |
| 28 | If regression can find the reason for the initial onset of the phobia — that first , frightening occasion — it may not be sufficient to put an end to it but it certainly stops the sufferer feeling that he is simply being ‘ weak ’ and ‘ foolish ’ or ( as one of my patients put it ) that he is ‘ going out of his mind ’ . |
| 29 | Then I said , or perhaps one of my voices said it for me , " I do n't know . |
| 30 | The detail of my speech made it far more informative than that of the Secretary of State . |