Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he survived his brush with death and eventually made it back to an English hospital . |
| 2 | Turning down ‘ loads of really tacky telly ’ , he decided he 'd rather slog it out on the alternative circuit than settle for being the new Bobby Davro . |
| 3 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 4 | There they gently laid it down on top of the so-centimetre mark at the middle of the tape measure . |
| 5 | You build up a frightening picture of an immensely long , empty passage of time , only to cancel it out with your last breath , leaving your audience thoroughly confused , but clinging to the idea that eternity is ‘ like ’ a great length of time . ’ |
| 6 | Complete Works is , in some ways , easier to use and incorporates some nice ideas , but the problems I had trying to link charts , table and spreadsheets together let it down in the end . |
| 7 | I felt disinclined actually to hand to him the piece of paper I was holding , and so put it down on the end of his bed . |
| 8 | After the third ‘ Carry On ’ , the cast had been offered a profit-sharing scheme — and had all turned it down on the advice of their agents , who thought they would be better off getting increased salaries . |
| 9 | You have to be able to hold it up there and perhaps put it down on paper or apply it . |
| 10 | I only put it on at night as my herons do n't seem to come in the day . |
| 11 | I only put it back on Friday . |
| 12 | All right I mean all right she did so that one of the guys would perhaps carry it around for you . |
| 13 | You only let it out to the girls because you got a shock when they said they 'd seen . |
| 14 | Dress your hair in the way I intended , put on my pearl necklace and — ’ Anne drew off her gold ring and carelessly dropped it on to the coverlet ‘ — my wedding-ring . |
| 15 | Still , better keep it up till dear Johnny gets back . |
| 16 | Greyson Gemmell comes in to win it back for Forest . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , we 're not polite society , lad , so tip it on to the grass and we 'll pretend we 're not locking . |
| 18 | He nodded agreement , muttered that he thought a grand finale would be her kind of thing , better to wrap it up in style , he said , echoing Ivan . |
| 19 | But you can only use it up for a month and then you . |
| 20 | I goes I went to the end I goes look I 'll tell you all together get it over with I lost my balance and I dropped it . |
| 21 | It obviously takes it out of you , being working class . |
| 22 | ‘ I am going to arrange a van to transport that fish to Berkeley so get it up on the bank . ’ |
| 23 | It 's very good quality , erm yeah , I think it 's , it 's it 's , the quality of it is good enough to put it up for , i in the sort of higher echelon of marks . |
| 24 | Then I 'd slip the ball into my abdomen and gently roll it about inside me . |
| 25 | But what the hell , better have it out with him now . |
| 26 | So talk it through with your partner before it 's too late . |
| 27 | The holder can not cash the cheque , but only pay it in to a bank account , or savings bank , or assign it to a third party . |
| 28 | We 've more or less pinned it down to coming from the the drainage systems . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'd better take it back to Brigade , ’ said Jim , turning . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , you had better tuck it out of the ‘ seducer 's ’ sight ! ’ |