Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 2 | She could have wished it otherwise — then she might have been able to lose herself in the crowd . |
| 3 | ‘ In fact it shall be so very shortly — my lord would have wished it so ! ’ |
| 4 | Graham reckons Sid 's won it so I might be the only bloke who has n't won it yet . |
| 5 | Well has Sid won it yet ? |
| 6 | He had won it convincingly , as the judges ' 60–56 , 60–56 , 60–57 scores proved , but such is the tension of the schools finals second only in most young boxers ' eyes to the senior ABA finals that he felt he needed a bit more help . |
| 7 | Graham reckons Sid 's won it so I might be the only bloke who has n't won it yet . |
| 8 | For the past twenty four years Douglas Reyburn have won it only twice before , so it was with tremendous satisfaction that the results were received . |
| 9 | ‘ Congratulations to them , they 've won it now , ’ he predicted . |
| 10 | Warwickshire are the current holders of the Championship , while Oxfordshire have won it once in 1979 and were runners up in 1984 . |
| 11 | Well , when you 've got all the big names , and the Dennis Taylors , the Jimmy Whites , both who 've won it before , Jimmy has n't been playing too well recently , but you 've got a whole clutch of players who could well come through and surprise everybody . |
| 12 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 13 | Well the way you 've approached it there I guess you 're not going to be er sales director |
| 14 | We have usually deemed it strategically unwise not to employ a judicious mix of the two . |
| 15 | The judge deemed it unconstitutionally restrictive to require that a person evaluate art by taking into consideration ‘ general standards of decency ’ . |
| 16 | He described how the Japanese used a laser beam strategy within a poorly drafted law to penetrate the European market while protecting their own domestic market behind a dynastic organisational structure which only permitted import access when the dynasty deemed it politically expedient to do so . |
| 17 | He bathed and dressed in his evening silks , then settled in the chair beside the carp pond , picking up the Hung Lou Meng , the Dream of Red Mansions , from where he had discarded it earlier . |
| 18 | That idea had occurred to Lisa , but she had discarded it as unthinkable . |
| 19 | In January 1987 The Smiths ' planned single release , ‘ You Have n't Earned It Yet Baby ’ , a rather spiteful song with a catchy hookline , was switched to ‘ Shoplifters Of The World Unite ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I have n't earned it yet . ’ |
| 21 | Foolishly she was disappointed , even though she should really have expected it all along . |
| 22 | I had it yesterday and I came here and Karen was hurrying me up and I must have dropped it somewhere . |
| 23 | When questioned about the tobacco box , Day admitted that he had regularly , and recently , poached and snared in Duncan Woods , and it was more than probably that he had dropped it then . |
| 24 | Oh there we are , look , he 's dropped it now why has he dropped the look at that ! |
| 25 | Even though they had occupied it separately , the fact that they had shared his bed created an intimacy that was impossible to ignore . |
| 26 | English forces occupied it about 1290 and Robert Bruce ordered its partial destruction about 1305 . |
| 27 | And er god you should of heard him , god if it ai n't Ross all over again , mummy , mummy and she left him there , as I said when they first came he was in the far bedroom , well now I suppose with all these people she 's rearranged it indoors and he 's in the one next to our house , and she 's shouting at him and er it went on how , I ca n't tell you how long , I mean , Bev and I was talking through bedrooms you know |
| 28 | and the other , the rest of it is on the end of that , but I 've wound it almost back to the beginning , that 's Fantasia at the beginning of the tape |
| 29 | ‘ We 've installed it close to the stores counter . |
| 30 | We have included it here because it is required by the context ( i.e. a disciplinary report ) . |