Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] it [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | wax jackets but they 're a waistcoat and I 've , I 've ordered one really just to see what it 's , it 's like , because erm at the moment I can , I just try and get a bit closer to the door , I think we 'll go round again , erm cos in the , in my club book at the moment , I , I can get twenty percent off and which brings it down to , it 's twe well say thirty pound so twenty per cent off it brings me down to erm brings it down to twenty four pounds and then erm with my commission off that brings it down to just under twenty one pound |
| 2 | And no and nothing you can think of that started it up ? |
| 3 | At home she would have been having buttered toast and strawberry jam and probably a piece of sponge-cake to round it off . |
| 4 | With the ball often in need of a team of scuba-divers to dig it out of the muddy waters , the decision made sense . |
| 5 | Put it on a very low one so when you come back about twenty past two whack it up and by sort of say three o'clock , quarter past three you can sit down and eat your grub dinner . |
| 6 | Let it get gamey and he 's erm Chinese assistant the person who has been assigned to sort of look after him and do his do his translating and things like that took it down and buried it cause they did n't eat rotten meat they did |
| 7 | He looks so good when he 's going forward like this lays it off for Crosby and clearance is lacked away by Simon Greyson . |
| 8 | Surgeons tried in vain to sew it back on . |
| 9 | You had to fold it in half to get it on . |
| 10 | He took the opportunity of Sir Burke Trend 's retirement in 1973 to hack it down . |
| 11 | It is possible now to go through the whole liberal arts course at Stanford University without ever reading Shakespeare ( a DWEM ) and there are many musems in the US now which can not contemplate an exhibition without first measuring it up against the PC yardstick . |
| 12 | water and what it does , it might be nice to just look at that to finish it off , so that if |
| 13 | But back then there was no open way to blame the government , and no way at all to vote it out . |
| 14 | The slogans were in ill-formed , illiterate script and Owen at first put it down as the work of children ; not the children who went to the kuttub , who were infants , but older youths . |