Example sentences of "it [adv prt] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well then if I go onto a medium , then you 're getting all this length and all this business here , all that business and it 's too much , if I could of found a four I 'd certainly tried it on for swimming you know , but I do n't want it all baggy and horrible you know |
| 2 | Ooh it sparkled when I first got it ooh I would n't put it on for washing up but I forget now |
| 3 | If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there . |
| 4 | When she had undressed and put it on without catching her own eye in the mirror she went back to the other room and dumped the handbag on top of the dressing-table . |
| 5 | ‘ Gravy ? ’ asked Shirley , and poured it on without waiting for an answer . |
| 6 | First time she 's ever put it on without whingeing ! |
| 7 | I mean it , you know when you do it , when you put it on after shaving you think ooh you know |
| 8 | Just now the autumnal coolth was tonic and he breathed it in like drinking draughts of fresh milk , then took dippersful of water from the butt at the side of the house and sluiced his head into activity . |
| 9 | And if we make an appointment to view some places and then we 'll know what time we 've got to doing the shopping and fit it in round taking mum . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose you 'd put it down to had management tactics , ’ sneered Ray . |
| 11 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 12 | But most of all I put it down to having lots of plants , ( plastic or real ) for cover . |
| 13 | And I put it down to having a fairly bad circulation and I 'm get getting my circulation back , using a product called and going on this er hair programme and my hair is beginning |
| 14 | I put it down to giving up work . ’ |
| 15 | Mornings had indeed developed into quite a happy routine of little errands and duties for Aunt Emily , the hens and the sea ; and if she felt now , as quite often she did , an incomprehensible longing for something wilder and freer and more satisfying than this domestic round , she put it down to needing to be in the open air more and gave herself , next morning , a longer spell on the smooth buff sands of the bay . |
| 16 | that 'll be a point , taking it down without breaking a brick . |
| 17 | I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year . |
| 18 | I only just managed to get it down before bolting from the tent just in time to get rid of the contents of my stomach . |
| 19 | I 'd worked it down by moving my jaw as much as possible . |
| 20 | When you have finally discovered the correct route write it down by giving the letters of the roads in the order you have used them . |
| 21 | The girl took it down in speedwriting , not proper shorthand . |
| 22 | Except that Ray and I held back , watching the rain wet the while ash , carry it down in trickling grey rills . |
| 23 | The children are not allowed to touch the fish with the paper and try to move it along by hitting it on the floor to create a draught . |
| 24 | While much of BSL 's own growth will be organic , Vine-Lott plans to help it along by introducing new products . |
| 25 | Stir in the yogurt and chopped coriander , heat it through without boiling . |
| 26 | Could not believe he expected to get it through without having a formal appraisal system . |
| 27 | The Queen is very quick at picking up a clue and following it through without giving the game away . |
| 28 | If you only have one rope , do your second a favour and either double it up or pull it through after doing the pitch and drop it back to your mate to protect the moves down the flake . |
| 29 | They wo n't love , let's , let's , let's get it over with see what 's happening before we start jumping the gun , throws in if there 's any good we 'll have them |
| 30 | He talks of responsibility , wrote Goldberg , half-tearing the page of his pad in his hurry to turn it over without breaking the flow of his thought , but where is his own sense of it ? |