Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had previously worked for the firm and was due to go back to it . |
| 2 | ‘ Sorry to go on about it , squire , ’ he said . |
| 3 | But erm I du n no there 's some of them were n't prepared to carry on with it , you know these youngsters , there was a lot of 'em they would n't , anyway everybody 's not hundred percent you 're not going to get anywhere with anything . |
| 4 | Terry Eagleton of Oxford made the comment , er oh I think a year or two ago , in the Sunday Times that er there is too much established in the name William Shakespeare for anyone to be willing to fool around with it . |
| 5 | These pictures function as rituals of reassurance , demonstrating that when there was a job to be done , the British got down to it . |
| 6 | Pertwee 's the only one who could put up with Hatton for a moment , but no one 's willing to come out with it . |
| 7 | It 's funny to look back on it now and think , ‘ What the hell was all that about ? ' ’ |
| 8 | He leaves me free to get on with it and I like that . |
| 9 | It must be impossible to stand up against it , he wrote , impossible to draw breath before it . |
| 10 | bored going out to it all the time |
| 11 | none of us are likely to fall out about it . |
| 12 | It was then very hard to come back to it . |
| 13 | What they did n't expect was a sudden erosion of their lead in the later stages of the game , and they were glad to come out of it with their scalp intact . |
| 14 | and do a nice little adding up on it . |
| 15 | How much do I value what I am likely to get out of it ? |
| 16 | City tried hard to get back into it but their task was always going to be maintenance , although Paul Hackett struck a good goal in a move involving several players , to reduce the area on seventy four minutes . |
| 17 | But I 've worked really hard to make up for it . |
| 18 | If we find , on reaching office , that the programme is sufficiently far advanced to render it foolhardy to go back on it , we shall review the matter carefully . |
| 19 | Apparently , so the bloke on Sky said , Wilko gets a major slagging off in it , and Cantona even says stuff like Wilko sold him cheap to the Scum just to piss him off . |
| 20 | nQue Technologies Corporation , a small Silicon Valley start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 21 | NQue Technologies Corp , a Santa Clara County start-up , has mapped out a wholly different approach to the Windows-on-Unix issue so wily and obvious it 's amazing it 's taken the industry this long to come up with it . |
| 22 | The results of our investigation are deeply disturbing , no individual in the country can be sure that their secrets are safe , banks and other data holders seem powerless to stop the growth in this trade and the Government is unwilling to crack down on it . |
| 23 | Ca n't think what took you so long to get around to it , old chap , ’ Aubrey said . |
| 24 | and I thought there was no good putting up with it just by not saying |
| 25 | She was nearly sixteen ; if she refused to go and told her mother so herself , Anna , they reckoned , would not be able to go through with it . |
| 26 | We all know the great fiction that the Lab is independent of the police and I 'm happy to go along with it most of the time . |
| 27 | I I 'm quite happy to come in on it . |
| 28 | Students have to show that they understand what has been learned so deeply that they are able to look down on it and assess it critically for themselves . |
| 29 | But why anyone would want to carry a bike up a mountain on their shoulder for the pleasure of being able to bump about on it for tiny , short stretches of flat ridge was completely beyond me . |
| 30 | You wo n't be able to wriggle out of it , then . |