Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Well you 'll just have to cry Bryony because you 're going to have them on because it keeps raining .
2 He 'll have to show people round at low tide , and get them off before it turns .
3 Oh well tick me off if it does
4 If you were aboard a vessel that was either going to go up or drag you down when it sank , what would your natural reaction be ? ’
5 The high-pitched kettle may not be audible , but the automatic kettle switches itself off when it boils .
6 Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day .
7 So Smart Drive remmed let it put one in when it does n't find one .
8 She sketched even faster , wanting to get everything down before it began to pour with rain .
9 Do not be afraid to leave something out if it does not fit !
10 Cardiff had supervised the clearance of the office block , noting wryly that it seemed easier to clear everyone out than it had been to get his original team established .
11 This is a highly competitive field and I did n't want them to rule me out when it comes to promotion because they think I lack commitment .
12 This wanting teased him on as it happened — contingent naturalism — to murder .
13 From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine .
14 We 'd best not try to shift him out until it gets here in case we start up more bleeding .
15 The extension of VAT was ‘ fairly predictable and he is phasing it in so it does not look quite so bad ’ .
16 You ca n't just cut it down because it looks untidy ! ’
17 The camera followed it down as it walked across her breast ( thirty foot wide ) and past her nipple ( five foot high ) .
18 They never put it down if it goes up do they ?
19 ‘ Why ca n't you bloody well wipe it off before it drips on me ?
20 That 's alright , open it up and then what do you do keep puffing along and sweeping it up whether it 's put
21 There 's been a big misunderstanding and I want to clear it up before it gets any worse .
22 UniTree , used primarily in the scientific world — Convex Computer Corp has an implementation and Floating Point Systems Inc picked it up before it turned up its toes — is an implementation of the IEEE Mass Storage Reference Model and automatically migrates files among disk and tape libraries .
23 Place a jar underneath to hold it up until it dries .
24 Anglo-Welsh was a relatively new consortium of previously independent regional breweries put together during the later 1970s by a shrewd and aggressive operator named K. Midas , who made no secret of his ambition to build it up until it rivalled the major national breweries .
25 I puzzled over this little problem for years , right into old age in fact , picking it up when it happened to float into my mind , and putting it down again unsolved .
26 Separate the turkey skin from the flesh with your fingers , so as not to tear it — sew it up if it does tear .
27 I am looking for a 2hr 8min pace and I prepared to take it up if it falls below that . ’
28 Others liked to sell it by the ton ; measure it out after it had been trussed .
29 We 'll take it out before it objects to it I think .
30 Our retina is sensitive to ultraviolet radiation , but the eye filters it out before it reaches the light detectors , so we miss out on much of the visual information available to other animals .
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