Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 She foraged in it immediately to see if her young supporter had been able to smuggle through a twist of tobacco .
2 Erm if you want to er to make your voice heard about it then write them letters write letters into your councillors erm and er and let them know what you think or you can write them to me and I 'll pass them on .
3 Then the whole 12.30 thing began like it always had since I was small .
4 My father glanced at it then returned his gaze to me .
5 Yeah once I 'd got there , they 'd offered me it er and I went home and thought about it actually thought about having to work for them , you know , not just
6 He had toyed with the idea of marriage , flirted with it only to tease her before his godmother 's death .
7 Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights .
8 It is an absolute rule of the Punch Table that nothing said around it ever finds its way into print .
9 I remained in it only to pay off the debts left by our now failed business and needed every penny I could get .
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