Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got to be over there for eleven o'clock and you 've had it after that to get anywhere else |
| 2 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 3 | She would n't put it past fitzAlan to read her mind . |
| 4 | Once you 've trained it like that to test it on this pattern all you do is take the pack into the system and see whether you can |
| 5 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 6 | Murray also denies supplying heroin , offering to supply the class A drug and possessing it with intent to supply . |
| 7 | As Daubney felt that the box reeked of death , Ted decided to bum Aubrey 's old armchair and replace it with another to remove the visible signs of the tragedy . |
| 8 | You had to fold it in half to get it on . |
| 9 | Noel ran onto the platform and said : ‘ The last ex-Italian prime minister 's speech was so good I 'm going to repeat it in Maltese to make sure you do n't miss any of it . ’ |
| 10 | He did n't ask what they did or said every morning , but left it to Bacci to report any snippet of information he managed to get from her . |
| 11 | Getting ready helped to restore her calm and , in any case , she felt she owed it to Marguerite to make some effort on this first evening at her house . |
| 12 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 13 | ‘ Life is no longer easy for a well-bred girl , ’ she exclaimed , determined to lay it on thick to please him . |
| 14 | On the other hand , I did n't have to think about it at all to decide it was flamboyant , asinine pretentiousness . |
| 15 | Not doubling it , not trebling it , but to improve it by something like five or ten percent , and then the next time we go to a sales conference , you 'll be the ones winning the prizes , instead of the people who 've to be winning the prizes , because you 'll not have to improve it by much to win the prizes do you ? |
| 16 | Constanza shelved it by promising to take him to Rome after the war for some slap-up ceremony ; meanwhile they made do before a registrar . |