Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dug a comb out of my bag and adjusted the driving mirror so I could sort out my hair before it dried frizzy . |
| 2 | when , in the hairdresser they put it on my hair and it went in my eye . |
| 3 | Molly removed the rags that Mary had put in my hair and it fell down in ringlets . |
| 4 | I was thinking of having extensions actually , in my hair till it grew . |
| 5 | He hardly moved it in my chest but it felt like liquid fire . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Within days I had changed my mind and it seemed that the only sensible form of transport would be a Sherman tank . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yeah but it 'd be my it 'd be my fault if it broke . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It would be even more difficult to explain my data if it did not . |
| 14 | He was reading my data as it fed through him into the outlet . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | While I put my purchases on the sliding counter he kept patting the inside of my thigh until it drove me to desperation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Rachel had caught my eye but it seemed her interest was in my master rather than me . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ But I decided to take my chance when it came and make it hard for Paul to get back . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd wait and take my chance when it came . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I felt the side of my head where it had hit the bus shelter ; a bruise was forming and my eye felt sore . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | I consulted my conscience but it did n't put up much of a fight . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 30 | Nothing could have been less reasonable than my fellow-members when it came to paying their share of the bills . |