Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then we used to listen with our ear on the ground and we could hear where the dog was do you see , and then we used to dig down there because we knew it was fighting there with the with a vixen do you see . |
| 2 | I have turfs enough there to damp it down again before we leave it . ’ |
| 3 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 4 | A farmer friend of mine came to look the place over shortly after we bought it and he gave me some useful advice : that , whatever happened , we must enjoy doing the work . |
| 5 | It stopped when she lifted her palm , and came through again when she put it back . |
| 6 | At this point I feel honour bound to remind Mister C that he 's talking to a journalist , that what might be an affectionate insult from his friends will probably piss him off massively when he sees it in print . |
| 7 | It 's got these tight sleeves that look too short and the bottom bit is all bunched up so when she turns it all billows out . |
| 8 | Passing Wattisham we identify Stowmarket ( R ) and look for a specific road/railway junction ( S ) , which turns up exactly as we expected it . |
| 9 | You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now . |
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| 11 | I do think it 's lightened this room up though when you think it gone |
| 12 | Nora calculated that there must be lots of single men up there so she decided it was ideal for the ‘ manhunt ’ , as we called it , even though the train fare was a serious consideration . |
| 13 | ‘ I must pay tribute to them for both Dominic Quinn from Banbridge and John Bailie from Lurgan told me to take my time with the horse and bring him back only when I felt it was right to do so . |
| 14 | Cos I 've already sussed Jim out anyway cos he said it was on my contract saying I had to do the four hours . |
| 15 | Then , like hope , energy or money , the road runs out just when you need it . |
| 16 | This method is magic and it helped me out just when I needed it . |
| 17 | Thinned it out more than she cut it . |
| 18 | ‘ Only getting back here after I dumped it . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll get inside somehow and we 'll find the — the person who was captured and be out again before you know it ! ’ |
| 20 | At high rates of interest , people may feel it worthwhile to put some of their income in a savings account on pay day and draw it out again as they need it later in the month . |
| 21 | What seems to happen there is the bird that 's deserted has to stay with the existing family because if he or she erm deserts , those chicks will , will , will die , so er it 's what is sometimes called the Concorde fallacy that if you put a lot of resources into something , you 've got ta see it through , because if you pull out just before the end you can lose everything , whereas i if , if you stay on even if you know it 's a failure , erm at least you may get something out of it , so the , in that case wi with monogamous birds the parent that 's deserted the one that 's left may have to stay , because if they desert then they can have no reproductive success whatsoever whereas at least if they stay they get something . |