Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We 've sorted it all out . ’
2 Perhaps it 's like she ca n't die for real , until someone 's sorted it all out .
3 ‘ You 've sorted it all out ? ’
4 ‘ One thing is for sure I will have sorted it all out before the start of the new season . ’
5 Did n't realize we 'd won it that many .
6 Nonetheless , the authoritarian nature of the regime has won it many enemies both inside and outside the country , creating an atmosphere of suspicion and intrigue amongst the educated elite .
7 The fact that it has won it eight out of ten years is n't registered , only glee that it has been beaten .
8 He gave Tottenham Hotspur the title , I think , of the greatest club side ever in erm , British football , and they won erm , the double as everyone knows , in nineteen sixty one , the first English team to have won it this century .
9 Yet its conversion to studios , workshops , flats and a drama school has won it several awards .
10 Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means .
11 The idea had long been mooted , but no other lighthouse had yet been built upon a rock and many deemed it impossible .
12 Thus for example many have deemed it necessary — in order to make RE relevant , acceptable and interesting today — to downplay work on religious vocabulary and explicit beliefs .
13 ‘ Yet none of the major parties has deemed it worthwhile arguing the case for housing .
14 Only his rash brother , the Lord Edward , forced him to it , ’ and he glanced over at the Earl of Carrick , the said Lord Edward Bruce 's second son , who had now deemed it judicious to desert the Balliol cause .
15 This much had been confided to him ; and he had deemed it discreet to pry no further — had been persuaded of the wisdom of discretion .
16 If an ambiguous penal provision should , as a matter of principle , be narrowly construed in the interests of liberty and fairness , a criminal statute which lacked all precision authorising the punishment of whatever conduct officials deemed it expedient to punish — should , on the same principle , be denied any application at all .
17 He enjoyed it , dangerous though it was for foreigners , but after the fall of Robespierre he had deemed it advisable to leave again .
18 She had discarded it several years ago , as being much fuller than she really liked , but everything came into its own , she reflected , for every article purchased she took pride in finding an eventual use .
19 But you have to have earned it all .
20 Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview .
21 You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League .
22 He plunged towards the door , and before Cassie could stop him , had wrenched it open and stormed out into the hall , crashing the door shut behind him .
23 they employed six thousand people and when the came they all went to Law Street adjacent to the factory so they could walk across to the job and er look at it now , they 've smashed it all down , it 's gon na be an Asian big store .
24 long , very nice , very posh , erm I do n't know what me dad 's is like , er me mum was laughing er yesterday erm with er doing all this work she 'd done a load of washing and pegged it all out and when she 'd got in from work dad had ironed it all
25 I should have reported it first , but I thought I could always plead urgency if I was disciplined again , and I could n't take the risk of being denied access . ’
26 ‘ The owner must 've reported it missing .
27 Where else has he accumulated his vast wealth — and we have n't added it all up yet , not by any means . ’
28 I 've added it all up .
29 I 've enjoyed it all and got some great memories , but I need to concentrate on family life now . ’
30 His Oxford tutor , C.S. Lewis , dedicatee of his first book , The English Game ( 1948 ) , told him : ‘ Though never a cricket man , after reading your book I feel that I have enjoyed it all my life . ’
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