Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean I have a very helpful husband , but he 's helping , he sees him himself as helping me rather than doing his share of it without having to ask what help I need . |
| 2 | The all-powerful ICC even made a balls up of it by refusing to clear the tourists when asked to do so . |
| 3 | But he was n't going to get out of it by trying to put her in the wrong . |
| 4 | When you have to get up from a settee , it will take less effort if you first come to the edge of it before attempting to stand . |
| 5 | Not only that , as men of power , pillars of the community , they are most likely to believe that they can get away with it without getting caught . |
| 6 | He was one of the eight directors of Lonrho who parted company from it after trying to oust Tiny Rowland in 1973 . |
| 7 | Essentially this is a matter of love for the total cosmic reality of which we are a part as something whose magnificence transcends our own puny being , and gratitude to it for having brought us forth in the heart of it . |
| 8 | There seemed no going back on it without having to retail some further lie and anyway I was sick at heart — without The Fat Controller 's gyroscopic girth to encompass it my world was spinning out of control . |
| 9 | I 'm well in front and I can easy just lose the hundred but I I 'll try for it without trying to knock down too many skittles . |
| 10 | Whereas the candidate has , in a sense , asked for it by choosing to enter the precarious and high-profile world of politics , the husband or wife in the wings has every right to feel resentful . |
| 11 | But he 's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills , like walking a tightrope . |