Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I 'd explained the problems , Mazzin tried to wriggle out of it by going on about blindfolds . |
| 2 | She tried to get out of it by standing up and stretching as if the conversation was threatening to bore her stiff . |
| 3 | The shifts in pace , in tone , in level , come at us without warning , so that even as one part of the brain tries to grasp at this or that , to make sense of it before moving on , the rest responds to the exhilaration of being swept along the verbal equivalent of a ghost railway . |
| 4 | The facts are that if you propose an idea , four times out of ten someone will take issue with it by pointing out snags and difficulties ( see Difficulty stating on page 52 ) . |
| 5 | of course some companies do this and one or two manage to benefit from it by sending out a different type ) f product from their range each year . |
| 6 | you know exactly which brand you want , you go right to it without dithering around |
| 7 | To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high nettles and clumps of bramble . |
| 8 | So we can get to it by going up this way . |
| 9 | So , go to it before reading on ! |
| 10 | It was precisely the action of Joseph Usher in The Mountainside , and Isabella Thornhill had slapped his face for it before rushing off , unprotected , into the downpour . |
| 11 | No we have we haven' we 're halfway through it with working out . |