Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [conj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you can , those are both the same sides so you 're gon na en add them together and give it the sign that is common to both . |
| 2 | ‘ He gets the money from someone else and passes it on to Osman ? ’ |
| 3 | Just for a child to know that someone will be interested in her work or to have the opportunity to do something for someone else and know it will be appreciated can significantly change the child 's attitude to the task . |
| 4 | Not only is he generally responsible for the system but he also receives all appeals from refusals of permission , and has the power to call in any application for decision by himself rather than leave it with the district council . |
| 5 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |
| 6 | His pupils will tell you differently — well not tell you exactly but demonstrate it in their changed lifestyle , which even their parents notice . |
| 7 | You know you more than deserve it . ’ |
| 8 | When Odilo has Herta on the bed , splayed and buckled , with her ankles on either side of the headboard , it 's as if he 's trying to kill something rather than create it . |
| 9 | The final list of goals for food change is obviously rather different from all the others because the aim is to increase consumption of something rather than decrease it . |
| 10 | Draw a number line like the one above and use it to answer the questions , starting from zero each time . |
| 11 | And er we got the results now and er we more than doubled it . |
| 12 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
| 13 | You also come across as a bit of a perfectionist , having to do everything perfectly and finding it difficult to delegate , or say ‘ no ’ … . |
| 14 | But she was there and you know , she wants something here and wants it there too . |
| 15 | Mistake it for something else or push it beyond its limits and its purpose may be destroyed . |
| 16 | And then but also with the poor peasants I mean you , you 've given them a , enough land so that they , they still ca n't meet subsistence , given them some land but not enough , but you know because they 're resourceful and they 've got other things that they , they do n't need to have enough land to give subsistence , they 'd rather go and do something else and make it up . |
| 17 | He grabbed the paper back , scribbled something else and shoved it over to me again . |
| 18 | Do you want to give them now or do it at the end ? |
| 19 | Shoot me now and get it over with ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He is the man who murdered my father and sister when he attacked Tracy Castle , who made my other sister 's life such a hell that she killed herself rather than endure it any longer , and who then would have forced me to wed him in her place . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 22 | I think I 'll I 'll not wait for Er if nothing comes in the post tomorrow I wo n't wait for the conference centre to get in touch with me , I 'll write to them tomorrow and drop it in . |
| 23 | She had thought long and hard before deciding that it was best for him to hear it from her rather than risk it reaching him through the more sensational tabloids , but she had braced herself for an outburst of shock , anger , even disgust . |
| 24 | Ratagan took it from her wordlessly and held it in the flames till it had caught . |
| 25 | I accepted the daisy she gave me graciously and put it in the buttonhole of my jacket 's left breast pocket . |
| 26 | They may refer to it or harbour it secretly and allow it to sour their trust and love . |
| 27 | The press of carriages represented an increasing desire of those with money to display it rather than hoard it , determined to keep pace with the fashion : ‘ The dreary bourgeois of Balzac have become vain . |
| 28 | It was a fair way off , but those who sensed it rather than heard it , those whose eyes became suddenly afraid , knew that two more would follow . |
| 29 | The main reason that he was carrying it rather than wearing it was that it did not belong to him . |
| 30 | This was before the ‘ epidemic ’ had reached its current proportions and , being unsuccessful in their enterprise , they used it rather than throw it away . |