Example sentences of "it [adv prt] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catching sight of the transistor radio , he clicked it on and fiddled with the tuning , encountering only heavy bands of static interspersed with the twittering gibberish of machines . |
| 2 | I scoffed it down and found to my astonishment that it was delicious . |
| 3 | She clearly has some worry about going in and out and wants to get it over and done with as soon as possible . |
| 4 | Wright 's spot kick was so hurried it was as if he wanted to get it over and done with while no one was looking . |
| 5 | Now I 've got to save up and get it over and done with . |
| 6 | Come on then , she shouted silently , let's get it over and done with ! |
| 7 | If they want to punish us , right , punish us , but do n't torture us , get it over and done with . |
| 8 | People standing around in heavy winter coats , stamping their feet and rubbing their hands , keen to have it over and done with . |
| 9 | She wanted to get it out , get it over and done with , and she could not have said anything worse . |
| 10 | Deciding she might as well get it over and done with , and indeed settle up , she took a deep breath , and pushed the study door wide . |
| 11 | She probably decided it was best to get it over and done with and then Jack could finally skip town . ’ |
| 12 | Got it over and done with |
| 13 | Got it over and done with yes , yes somebody somebody dried up did they nobody sort of er |
| 14 | The partnership was not a success , however , and within six months Milburn took it over and amalgamated with Nathan and Sommers . |
| 15 | She tugged it off and played with it in her hands as she watched the Dale with him , leaning on the stone of the wall . |
| 16 | NEEDING four points from the six singles to beat Scotland on the opening day of the Womens Home Internationals at Hermitage Ireland could not quite bring it off and lost in the end by 5–4 . |
| 17 | He grabbed her arm as she tried to run past him , but she shook it off and spun in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | She turned it off and put on a tape of Stravinsky . |
| 19 | GEORGE ORWELL claimed writing was a curse and nobody should take it up unless driven by inner demons . |
| 20 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 21 | I picked it up and checked on what news it gave of the train . |
| 22 | She decided to brave it out and applied for permission from the Prefect of Police . |
| 23 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |