Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] it [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we know where we are we 'll all be down with it like flies . |
| 2 | They should either just touch the floor — no gap between hem and floor — or be allowed to fall down to it in folds , Thirties style . |
| 3 | Now , I was never a good getter-up but I do have the excuse that I often retire very late , particularly if I have a visitor in the afternoon and need to get a bit of washing or something done at night when it is possible to get on with it without interruptions . |
| 4 | 4 chose to fight ; I did not re-stand and 3 linked up with it in constituencies where UUUC support was strong . |
| 5 | It 's gone now , but at the time mentally handicapped patients were locked up in it for hours at a time . |
| 6 | Select one topical current affairs issue each week and swot up on it from newspapers and magazines . |
| 7 | And of course there was the fertilizer pile , next to me — beyond which was a slightly different pile , with sticks thrusting out of it at angles . |
| 8 | I thought a woman who was a little older and starting to feel a little out of it in terms of being attractive — had the sensuality but was losing it — might be more ambivalent about being raped . |
| 9 | I had the photocopy stashed in a chart drawer and was back out with it in moments . |
| 10 | The morning room was supported out from it on stilts , reaching into nothing so that to stand at the foremost edge of the platform was to seem to be poised above an abyss . |
| 11 | So that evening Sister Websper and I , with a dozen or more girl students , scrambled on board an already crowded steamer , which waited in mid-stream while we pulled out to it in sampans and canoes . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp currently owns the desktop with MS-DOS , and will do its darndest to hang on to it with Windows New Technology . |
| 13 | Case management , as defined and practised originally , developed as a service system response to the co-ordination of care , and while judgement of its value in other terms is not entirely inappropriate , it should be assessed in terms of its purpose , goals , and effectiveness , not in terms of its capacity to meet requirements projected on to it by others . |
| 14 | But these were the pattern-creating branches of the trade ; once a block had been set , the dye could be splashed on to it by children and the pattern applied to the cloth by lowly paid female labour . |
| 15 | The resulting brand of individualism thus contains a radical anomaly , affecting half of those present — an anomaly which , however , does not seem to have been visible until light was specially directed on to it by feminists . |