Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 2 | She would n't put it past fitzAlan to read her mind . |
| 3 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 4 | Murray also denies supplying heroin , offering to supply the class A drug and possessing it with intent to supply . |
| 5 | However , the company 's real problem ( hardly unique to it in general publishing ) was not profitability , but cash flow . |
| 6 | Noel ran onto the platform and said : ‘ The last ex-Italian prime minister 's speech was so good I 'm going to repeat it in Maltese to make sure you do n't miss any of it . ’ |
| 7 | She is uninterested in fame ; she may attract it , however , and although she finds it annoying , she can turn it to good account for the work she is doing . |
| 8 | He did n't ask what they did or said every morning , but left it to Bacci to report any snippet of information he managed to get from her . |
| 9 | Getting ready helped to restore her calm and , in any case , she felt she owed it to Marguerite to make some effort on this first evening at her house . |
| 10 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 11 | ‘ Life is no longer easy for a well-bred girl , ’ she exclaimed , determined to lay it on thick to please him . |
| 12 | He felt sure he 'd have been told of it at literary do 's if she was really ill . |
| 13 | Constanza shelved it by promising to take him to Rome after the war for some slap-up ceremony ; meanwhile they made do before a registrar . |