Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 2 | Except that I was all caught up in it , the romance and everything and the sunshine . |
| 3 | The South African foreign minister , Mr Pik Botha , publicly threatened to abort Namibian independence and was apparently cajoled out of it by Mrs Thatcher , who was in Windhoek when the trouble began . |
| 4 | She 'd loved that dress , felt so grown up in it ! |
| 5 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 6 | Probably she 'll be so wrapped up in it she 'll feel differently . ’ |
| 7 | So if you hate the theory so much , how come you 're so boned up on it ? |
| 8 | ‘ He is so laid back about it all . |
| 9 | And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go |
| 10 | The vogue for this owed much to a bastard Darwinism ; Latin nations were less taken in by it than were Slavs and Teutons . |
| 11 | But Sam said he had a surprise to show her ; and Sarah , obviously put up to it by him , claimed she would prefer to sit in the shade on the terrace and do a water colour of the garden at La Gracieuse . |
| 12 | ‘ But there 's no point getting so worked up about it . |
| 13 | 'You 're the one who 's getting so worked up about it . ’ |
| 14 | Right cheesed off about it he seemed , too . |
| 15 | Of course , he 'd long since grown out of it . |
| 16 | We are all familiar with water , as our bodies are mostly made up of it , and it is the easiest thing to dowse for . |
| 17 | If I could be absolutely sure that A and B were n't somehow mixed up in it all , I 'd be tempted to give it a go . |
| 18 | No I 've just come back to it and I find my lunch box overflowing with crisp packets . |
| 19 | Wow , he plays drums — multi-talented ! ’ and you 've just grown up with it and it 's no big deal . |
| 20 | His knowledge of the Bible was minimal but he soon made up for it . |
| 21 | I 'm just , I 'm just fed up with it hurting . |
| 22 | Ca n't do my work it 's the same as before , I 'm just fed up with it . |
| 23 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |
| 24 | He now proposed that the fundamental gut decision of whether the paper should be tabloid or broadsheet be tested by market research , until he was finally talked out of it by another newly recruited professional — Clive Thornton , lately of Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 25 | He sat holding his head in his hands for half an hour , but after that he stood up and just got on with it . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've only just got out of it ! |
| 27 | Yeah but I was just got out of it , not very good at it . |
| 28 | I had only a vague idea where the circle was , but nevertheless set off towards it . |
| 29 | Derby when just run out of it for third place by Fly Smasher . |
| 30 | But what 's aggrieved me is that he 's just waltzed off with it and not |