Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'll give you a ring when I 've sorted it out . ’ |
| 3 | And when you 're sorted it out , they want six gangs , so that 's six times four . |
| 4 | No she 's sorted it out . |
| 5 | You 'd thought by now they would have sorted it out . |
| 6 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 7 | She could have wished it otherwise — then she might have been able to lose herself in the crowd . |
| 8 | ‘ In fact it shall be so very shortly — my lord would have wished it so ! ’ |
| 9 | Graham reckons Sid 's won it so I might be the only bloke who has n't won it yet . |
| 10 | Well has Sid won it yet ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had won it convincingly , as the judges ' 60–56 , 60–56 , 60–57 scores proved , but such is the tension of the schools finals second only in most young boxers ' eyes to the senior ABA finals that he felt he needed a bit more help . |
| 14 | Graham reckons Sid 's won it so I might be the only bloke who has n't won it yet . |
| 15 | For the past twenty four years Douglas Reyburn have won it only twice before , so it was with tremendous satisfaction that the results were received . |
| 16 | ‘ Congratulations to them , they 've won it now , ’ he predicted . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Warwickshire are the current holders of the Championship , while Oxfordshire have won it once in 1979 and were runners up in 1984 . |
| 19 | Well , when you 've got all the big names , and the Dennis Taylors , the Jimmy Whites , both who 've won it before , Jimmy has n't been playing too well recently , but you 've got a whole clutch of players who could well come through and surprise everybody . |
| 20 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 21 | Well the way you 've approached it there I guess you 're not going to be er sales director |
| 22 | We have usually deemed it strategically unwise not to employ a judicious mix of the two . |
| 23 | The judge deemed it unconstitutionally restrictive to require that a person evaluate art by taking into consideration ‘ general standards of decency ’ . |
| 24 | He described how the Japanese used a laser beam strategy within a poorly drafted law to penetrate the European market while protecting their own domestic market behind a dynastic organisational structure which only permitted import access when the dynasty deemed it politically expedient to do so . |
| 25 | He bathed and dressed in his evening silks , then settled in the chair beside the carp pond , picking up the Hung Lou Meng , the Dream of Red Mansions , from where he had discarded it earlier . |
| 26 | That idea had occurred to Lisa , but she had discarded it as unthinkable . |
| 27 | I WATCHED the General Synod debate on the ordination of women priests with my jaw dropped so low that my knee could have nudged it back into place . |
| 28 | Then her face cleared ; when she had leaned across to kiss Richard she must have nudged it off , and no doubt she would find it in her car when he brought it back in the morning . |
| 29 | In January 1987 The Smiths ' planned single release , ‘ You Have n't Earned It Yet Baby ’ , a rather spiteful song with a catchy hookline , was switched to ‘ Shoplifters Of The World Unite ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I have n't earned it yet . ’ |