Example sentences of "[prep] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 2 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 3 | It has n't been the most memorable of summers : let's hope the autumn brings more positive energy ( and not all of it chemically induced ) |
| 4 | Mrs Frizzell digested this truth , and the import of it slowly became clear to her . |
| 5 | But then , with Matilda concentrating fiercely , one end of it slowly lifted up about an inch off the table-top . |
| 6 | This was fair comment at the time ; some of it doubtless justified . |
| 7 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 8 | And come to think of it why did n't he find himself another caddie after the first round ? ’ |
| 9 | And this is a question that always occurs to me and I 've read this novel several times , at the end of it why did she write it ? |
| 10 | Yet by embarking on these difficult waters we are confronting what religion really is , not a safe cardboard version of it neatly packaged up for general retail . |
| 11 | Is any of it double glazed ? |
| 12 | Martin pressed himself back into the burial plot , his fear of it temporarily forgotten in the face of this new terror . |
| 13 | MUCH has been said in the Steam Railway press about the financial and management trouble of the ‘ Mid-Hants Railway ’ , some of it even forecasting the forthcoming demise of the Watercress Line . |
| 14 | Of course , once you release a wild bird , however well you 've trained it , you do run the risk of it just flying away . |
| 15 | And in the middle of that , they thought that perhaps an ornamental lighting column with sort of , with lights coming out from the top of it just to make it a bit more fancy . |
| 16 | Much of it just fails to scan correctly — very odd for someone who was lecturing and giving tutorials on English poetry . |
| 17 | And there is a car with a blue light on the top of it just going through a gate in the fence . |
| 18 | There was no need to tell Mrs Blakey everything because so much of it just did n't make sense . |
| 19 | Once the decision ‘ matures into validity ’ as it were , acts already done in execution of it also mature into legality because maturity is retrospective . |
| 20 | Some of it also goes on several splendid , wonderful , much-admired council newspapers . |
| 21 | This is a campaign booklet which I prepared for the RCN 's Association of Nursing Students in 1985 ; much of it also applies to returning nurses . |
| 22 | The booklet has been written for permanently appointed people in the ES but people on temporary appointments will find much of it also applies to them . |
| 23 | Later on in life those same children may be expected to regard that Bible with such reverence , that the placing of a hand on a copy of it automatically makes their obligation to tell the truth more compelling . |
| 24 | His head was like a dustbin , with all sorts of rubbish mingling in it , and all of it eventually spewing out of his mouth . |
| 25 | Having used most of it up taking shots of you , he realises that when anything happens that he should cover he 's going to look very foolish with no film in his great big camera . ’ |
| 26 | Repeated experiences of it not hurting will help overcome the fear of the child who has experienced pain . |
| 27 | Understanding men and women and relationships as I do , I thought there was more chance of it not working out and the rest is what one might call one 's intuition . |
| 28 | The giant clam ( Tridacna ) of modern reefs is a familiar living goliath , but reports of it greedily trapping divers are legends of dubious veracity . |
| 29 | In fact some of it already had . |
| 30 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |