Example sentences of "[prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ye keep tae it . ’ |
| 2 | ’ But I wis born tae it . |
| 3 | It 's no easy til ye get used tae it . ’ |
| 4 | Many Poets write bout it |
| 5 | You 've worked hard fer it and you 're bright . ’ |
| 6 | We ai n't got no room fer it , ’ she told Dad . |
| 7 | ‘ When I want your opinion I 'll ask fer it , ’ Springfield cut coldly across the sneering voice . |
| 8 | That way , if the worst happens an' they fire the house an' make a run fer it , we 'll drive most of 'em back towards the highway , where we 'll have a reception committee waitin' to meet ‘ em ! |
| 9 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 10 | The speed of élite competition means that your countering punch either arrives at the same time as any deflection you make , or very soon after it . |
| 11 | He was speaking in the Punch Tavern , the only pub to have a national magazine named after it . |
| 12 | The phantom was initially nameless but the viewer knew that , if he had shouted Class or Guilt after it , it would probably have answered . |
| 13 | Had we seen a fox , the pick-up would have sped after it , at 40 mph or more , and the men would have shot it . |
| 14 | It was the kind of weather Jack Carbery loved , when he could lie for hours , securely wrapped , and sleep — to wake again with the comfortable feeling that a warm meal was near and , after it , a pipe or cigarette and casual conversation with his friends . |
| 15 | People were walking after it — a young man about his own age with blank , staring face , a sobbing woman supported by her husband , and a girl , whose expression , as she passed , startled him . |
| 16 | The cars passed out , one by one , and sped after it . |
| 17 | As five was also her lucky number , the perfume was named after it . |
| 18 | Next month : do n't miss our 16-page supplement on curly hair — how to look after it if you 've got it , how to get it if you have n't ! |
| 19 | But second , enough of an overwhelming victory for the incumbent leader to rule out what has always been the more credible avenue through which change might occur : her own apprehension , reaching her by whatever means , that perhaps the time has come to quit — before the election rather than after it . |
| 20 | Streets are being named after it . |
| 21 | He threw it deep into the wood and the dog chased after it . |
| 22 | He said he 'd look after it . ’ |
| 23 | Three weeks after it , he was dead . |
| 24 | It means a government whose chief policies were offered to the voters before the election rather than concocted in political trading after it . |
| 25 | Tock muttered something about how irritating water could be if you did n't look after it . |
| 26 | He scooped up a stone and leaping the steps to the terrace three at a time , he hurled it through the door and dived after it , hitting the living-room floor flat and rolling twice . |
| 27 | Another church built at the wish of San Carlo Borromeo , it was started in 1569 and , when completed , ‘ given ’ to the Jesuits who still look after it today . |
| 28 | Derek Johns of Sheffield writes in to say that a company that has a rare new species named after it could find its share price sensitive to any environmental news . |
| 29 | The implication for Israel and the international community was that it might have been easier to transact a deal with the PLO before the Uprising than after it . |
| 30 | Unless you can do so your holding will deteriorate or you will spend a small fortune paying outsiders to look after it for you . |