Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Speaking of which , do n't you think we 'd better get this glop off my hair before it turns it green ? ’ |
| 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 | I 'm gon na get a proper conditioner for my hair cos it do n't look ! |
| 4 | when , in the hairdresser they put it on my hair and it went in my eye . |
| 5 | I spend a lot of time with a lot of girls , it 's my job , I do n't want one of them to run her fingers through my hair and it come away in in her hand you know that 's |
| 6 | Molly removed the rags that Mary had put in my hair and it fell down in ringlets . |
| 7 | Conditioners for my hair because it gets really dry and definitely lipstick , I have to have my red lippy . |
| 8 | I was thinking of having extensions actually , in my hair till it grew . |
| 9 | He hardly moved it in my chest but it felt like liquid fire . |
| 10 | You have absolutely nothing at all to do with it , and I resent sometimes the implications that there is this kind of artificial competitiveness amongst actors , because it 's been my experience that it does n't exist . |
| 11 | ‘ I have only just begun discussions with Celtic over renewing my contract and it has not got to the stage of the manager making me an offer , ’ said the player whose ability to impose himself on the opposition might be thought worthy of international recognition . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Within days I had changed my mind and it seemed that the only sensible form of transport would be a Sherman tank . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I keep getting awful pains in my side and it makes me go all hot . |
| 18 | Yeah but it 'd be my it 'd be my fault if it broke . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It would be even more difficult to explain my data if it did not . |
| 21 | He was reading my data as it fed through him into the outlet . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | Versions of Locke 's doctrine of cultural relativity are still staunchly upheld by many professional anthropologists of high repute , though my demonstration that it incorporates the traditional proposition that the opposition " we " / " they " is the equivalent of " human being " / " monster " should serve as a warning . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | While I put my purchases on the sliding counter he kept patting the inside of my thigh until it drove me to desperation . |
| 26 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 27 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's written at the front of my note-book and it says ‘ Private ’ in case you had n't noticed . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I have to admit that I was expecting something rather special from him , but listening to the first instalment in his survey of the sonatas has only strengthened my opinion that it seems almost impossible for one pianist to attain a consistent level of achievement in all of the sonatas . |