Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 2 | I think we can all learn a thing or too from that oh er that sounded nice that that sounds even better , oh I 've cracked it right down the bloody middle |
| 3 | Just bottled it up with the other terrible things — blocked it out of my life and my mind . |
| 4 | Only two of their candidates have even made it through to the second round . |
| 5 | finally only one of junior teams has made it through to the third round of the cup … |
| 6 | Mr McTavish forbore to mention that he had n't made it quite to the same standard as his host but was obviously pleased to be included in the generalization . |
| 7 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 8 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 9 | Erm with a view to saying really , providing we 've got it in by the first of April next year |
| 10 | Got it back across the other fella really could n't quite get enough power on the shot . |
| 11 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 12 | Well what they mean when they say a half of a quarter is that we had a a quarter and we 've shared it out between the two of it so we 've got half to that each . |
| 13 | Ralph had laid it down in the 1950s . |
| 14 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 15 | Over twenty years the two great polo dynasties had battled it out in the Argentine Open at Palermo . |
| 16 | I would have liked to have heard it again at the second service but Dad made us hurry home . |
| 17 | The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector . |
| 18 | Nearly 300 people have tried it out over the past four years and ‘ the success rate is significantly higher than with any other start-your-own-business scheme , ’ said Barfield 's joint MD Cliff Maxen . |
| 19 | His followers at the Yorkshire track have raked it in over the last five years with a 1 level stake on all his mounts showing more than 45 to the good . |
| 20 | I 'd worked it out to the last breath . |
| 21 | At that stage the divisional officer may have taken it away from the domestic scene , and er put it through to Glasgow if it was the , if the employer was a member of the employers ' association , he would then take it to local conference . |
| 22 | And the first was a twelve volt but then we came to a hundred and ten so I just strung it down along the two top wires of the fence and they were live and oh there were about six or nine hen houses attached to the fence with those wires for electricity . |
| 23 | He took the photostat copy of the Illustrated Police News out of the roll-top desk where he had kept it together with the original photograph ; under a pile of old negatives away from his wife 's prying eyes . |
| 24 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |