Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos the egg white would have fluffed it up and it 'd more |
| 2 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 3 | So far , she had answered everything scrupulously as it came , but the volume threatened to defeat her . |
| 4 | It is to have failed to give the transcendence of God its proper cash value , to have weakened it so that it means something like ‘ outside the solar system ’ or ‘ above the galaxy ’ . |
| 5 | You 've made it officially and it 's been noted . |
| 6 | The brewery was founded in 1853 , started to make wheat beers in the 1890s , and has produced nothing else since it came into its present ownership , the Brombach family , in 1935 . |
| 7 | Governments , it seems , have yet to learn a fact that most smokers readily acknowledge : the tobacco industry has got them precisely where it wants them . |
| 8 | The Prison Governors Association has told me clearly that it opposes the Bill on the grounds that the measures that it contains are ’ too draconian ’ — I use its exact words . |
| 9 | But I have n't had one once and it tasted really nice . |
| 10 | and they 've got it in but it wants it at different times does n't it ? |
| 11 | But he 's got it so that it hurts . |
| 12 | As he watched , a mink pounced on the vole and , although the vole dived from the bank for safety at the last minute , the mink had grabbed it almost before it hit the water . |
| 13 | I 've just blocked it out and it has n't changed my attitude to cars , except that they 're not safe enough . |
| 14 | While living in Stornoway I had heard it occasionally but it had been the exception rather than the rule . |
| 15 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 16 | So , you know , mind you , we 've left it now and it says open and we 're not , we 're here with you ! |
| 17 | The recession has nearly blown itself out but it has left the Government with a massive deficit of £40bn-£50bn and this will have to be funded through gilts , cost cuts or taxes . |
| 18 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
| 19 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 20 | The amendment is very simple , members will have read it already before it gets flagged on on the wall . |