Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before 1962 he had attempted to modify it through at least five distinct initiatives : by sponsoring a political confederation of Western European states ; by proposing a restructuring of NATO ; by fostering a special relationship with the Federal Republic of Germany ; by decolonizing and establishing new connections with Third World nations ; and by pushing ahead with the development of France 's nuclear weapons programme . |
| 2 | She beat it down , while she thought , These two , we 'll see nothing of them , they 'll be off |
| 3 | I was always a sensitive child , but he beat it out of me , taught me that the only way to make your way in life is by standing up and fighting for what you want . |
| 4 | I do n't believe it was a coincidence , and if it was n't — ’ he had finally sorted it out — ‘ if it was n't then it means that Sardinian shepherds dressed themselves up as Sardinian shepherds to do a kidnapping . |
| 5 | I 'll give you a ring when I 've sorted it out . ’ |
| 6 | And when you 're sorted it out , they want six gangs , so that 's six times four . |
| 7 | No she 's sorted it out . |
| 8 | You 'd thought by now they would have sorted it out . |
| 9 | PEG : Shall we both take a small pill and sleep it out until later ? |
| 10 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 11 | For God 's sake go to bed and try and sleep it off before dinner . |
| 12 | Lord Wakeham , who had come with the necessary cheque , had muttered something about boys being boys , and that Robertson would do well to go to his hotel and sleep it off . |
| 13 | It 'ad so much of the happy juice inside him , it took the hare three laps to catch it up . |
| 14 | Once it was dry , Louise styled Kukkay 's hair by twisting it up at the back to create fullness on top while still leaving it curly and ‘ free ’ . |
| 15 | Bella was putting a coin inside the top of each of her stockings and twisting it round until the stocking was tight against her leg . |
| 16 | Her rolled-up handkerchief was already soaked through but she went on twisting it round and round in her fingers and dabbing at her wet face . |
| 17 | He had a strand of her hair in his fingers ; he played with it , twisting it round until it curled . |
| 18 | And then twisting it round and round . |
| 19 | He was holding an aubergine at arm 's length above him , twisting it about , judging it . |
| 20 | She washed her carefully , passing over the thin , dry limbs with smooth , light strokes , her hand filled with moss she had soaked in balm ; combing out the sparse hair with quills and twisting it back up again into a knot . |
| 21 | In the second half he did an extremly dainty control of the ball by sort of twisting it off his middle with his arms up in the air , towards some nearby Leeds player . |
| 22 | Will you please try and act it out like we did the Twelfth Night the bit with Mrs , and see whether you can revive your idea of why Johnson , what is the nature of , of Johnson 's comic art . |
| 23 | Lick it , lick it up . |
| 24 | I ai n't got a hankie or nothing so I try and lick it off with my tongue , but I ca n't get all of it . |
| 25 | One is to let the experience come to you ( reactive ) and the other , to deliberately seek it out ( proactive ) . |
| 26 | This probably helped undermine support for a new right-wing party , the National Democrats , whose anti-U S , anti-Soviet and anti-immigrant policies had won it up to ten per cent of support in Länder elections in 1966 — 8 . |
| 27 | Probably should have won it on , about seventy-five percent of it , but we were n't as good , we , nowhere what we should have been , but give them credit , they worked very hard and er well there was only one goal in it , they kept doing their job and they done that quite well . |
| 28 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 29 | I phoned it up and says the fella had been out , you know , they change , update it |
| 30 | He took the unravelling length of fabric from her and expertly refolded it , depositing it back on the stall . |