Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , you , you 've sorted it in your own mind ? |
| 2 | But anyway , he 's optimistic we 'll have sorted it by two thirty . |
| 3 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 4 | There was nothing for it but to pretend it had all been as Aunt Emily would have wished it to be . |
| 5 | Cnut 's relations with the see of London seem to have been poor , and on the death of Bishop Ælfwig he could well have wished it to be held by one of his own supporters . |
| 6 | First of all the local authority 's S S A as you know , has not been as we would have wished it to be , and that gives us less headroom for er , manoeuvring as it were er , with the various committees , and secondly the community care money is now solely distributed through the S S A whereas last year fifty percent of it came relating to usage . |
| 7 | Our pattern will be displayed as we originally designed it in the Fair Isle option , but we are about to make some changes . |
| 8 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 9 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 10 | Quinn then seemed to have won it for City with a 51st-minute header but Steve Whitton levelled again from the penalty spot . |
| 11 | ‘ I should have won it for Everton . |
| 12 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think Manchester had too many chances in extra time and a Falconer goal would have won it for us . |
| 14 | The only bad thing of course , if we were to get relegated but to bring promotion and relegation into speedway is a good thing because you know , if you win the lower league , what have you won it for ? |
| 15 | Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate . |
| 16 | Michael also took away the distinction of being the youngest archer ever to win the contest from Ben Hird , who had won it aged nineteen in 1900 . |
| 17 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 18 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 19 | Only decent thing in the room , if you ask me ; he must have won it in a raffle . |
| 20 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 21 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 22 | The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law . |
| 23 | He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history : |
| 24 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 25 | Members of Unix International have approached it about UI trying to get a piece of the COSE requirement process . |
| 26 | ‘ Solving problems , however was not Highlander 's purpose , its purpose to ‘ help people learn to solve their problems in their own way , ’ and in its life since then Highlander has always worked with the under-privileged , exploited , relatively powerless communities which have approached it for assistance . |
| 27 | Those who have not inherited their money , unlike the Queen , Sally Burton and Linda McCartney , seem to have earned it from sex . |
| 28 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's a particularly nasty thing to say , but maybe I should have expected it of you . ’ |
| 30 | He had not expected it of her and wished he could have gone away quickly without even asking if there was anything he could do for her . |