Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A common mistake is to try to use lift on the way back instead of gliding on through it at a sensible speed . |
| 2 | Both also joined the League of Nations Union , lecturing widely for it on world peace ; and in 1922 they toured Europe to investigate postwar conditions . |
| 3 | yes , but you 're always on about it as if you wished you 'd had a |
| 4 | Alright well I think well I think actually well I know we 've droned on about it for half an hour but I think it 's worth a discussion to be quite honest , do n't you ? |
| 5 | It is worrying in a way , and Peter often goes on about it to me , ’ he says . |
| 6 | He found himself thinking solemnly about her bone structure , going on and on about it in his head , but put a stop to that because his thoughts sounded like the conversation of fashion photographers . |
| 7 | Owen 's behaviour did , in fact , improve enough for it to be noticed at school . |
| 8 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 9 | If the task required of the listener is to shadow the message then the articulatory loop will be a useful device in establishing an appropriate lag and in maintaining information long enough for it to be recognised and repeated . |
| 10 | It , too , was nearly dead , but he was persuaded to release it in a bay long enough for it to be filmed with an underwater camera as it swam slowly above the bottom . |
| 11 | This is a kind of degradation which indicates that when they were formed the Mercurian surface may have been warm enough for it to be slightly plastic . |
| 12 | Luckily , a scanner investigation detected a tumour on his kidney early enough for it to be safely treated . |
| 13 | However , Kilfinnan is dismissed with a mere mention in that compendium , which showed that the compiler had not made its acquaintance nor found much about it in any other book . |
| 14 | In the absence of such empirical work , it is difficult to say much about it in sociological terms . |
| 15 | So much is at stake at today 's talks that the region 's vice-convener , Peter Peacock , who will make a presentation to Mr Lang , was reluctant to say much about it in advance . |
| 16 | The series was alight — only for it to be thoroughly dampened in Guyana when relentless rain washed out the second Test completely , for only the fifth time in Test history . |
| 17 | Lawrence saw his side take an early lead through Willie Falconer , only for it to be wiped out by three Oldham goals in seven minutes from Norwegian Gunnar Halle , Neil Pointon and Graeme Sharp . |
| 18 | Between the late-nineteenth century and the 1980s , there was a progressive decline in the occurrence of industrial confrontation only for it to dramatically reappear between 1983 and 1985 . |
| 19 | In such a context the interests of the State must in my judgment mean the interests of the State according to the policies laid down for it by its recognised organs of government and authority , the policies of the State as they are , not as they ought , in the opinion of a jury , to be . |
| 20 | I 'll come down for it after lunch . |
| 21 | He had enjoyed being able to tell Sunil all about it at lunch , though he had been a little worried by the way Sunil had then gazed at Gooseneck throughout the meal with evident hero-worship . |
| 22 | So sure enough we let the tyres down sufficiently for it to be roadworthy and not to destroy the tyres on the way there , but soft enough just so that it would go down , and we edged it through and Roy got it through the middle and off we went . |
| 23 | Well I , I , I have no comment I mean I just do n't underst I , I do n't know enough about it to , even to be |
| 24 | I am distressed enough about it without having you people coming here , interrupting my work . ’ |
| 25 | The carpenter , John , Alison 's " " old " " husband , is the most obvious target figure of the piece , but Absolon is tricked into kissing Alison 's arse " " savourly " " and being farted upon , and Nicholas is led to put his bare behind out of the window little knowing he does so for it to be branded with a plough-coulter hot from the forge . |
| 26 | You know she went straight in for it without sort of seeing how well |
| 27 | They landed us in for it between them . ’ |
| 28 | Did he go in for it from school ? |
| 29 | I 'm actually going to go in for it in the Telegraph 's competition , so I may as well use the same team for our one if it gets going . |
| 30 | you know that er polythene that 's got wire netting in between it like a , like a wire netting sandwich with po with clear polythene on the outside ? |