Example sentences of "it [adv prt] [coord] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I always say that we all spend our money on what we really want to spend it on and put a bit by for what we really desire to achieve .
2 I had almost consciously to go out of the house in the morning with a smile fixed on my face , keep it on and breathe an air of absolute confidence when I was feeling anything but that way inclined .
3 Then , putting it on and pulling the collar tight about her throat , she lit the candle that was standing in a holder on her bedside table , and went quietly out and along the corridor to the kitchen , through it and into the scullery , where they had a running tap above a shallow stone sink .
4 Nails said , towards the kitchen door , ‘ I 'm goin' out , ’ picked up a leather jacket that lay on the floor , shrugged it on and opened the door again .
5 He cut it in and holed the putt from about 12 feet .
6 And since even a polygonal story should have at least two sides in all international farewell orgies , how about packing it in and having a bash at normal behaviour eh , so as to get bashed again as whipping boy despite my morseled-out attempts to break free or go shiating on , turning the other cheek to sheer cheek as sitting target for the unclear missiles of affreux dizzy acts or as wailing wall of blame beyond the demarcation line or bowstring frontier that will boomerang back and much joy may it give me. ( 102 )
7 If you ca n't , or if your fingers are arthritic and you ca n't write much , let her write it down but take a part in it yourself .
8 The loop will now be round the person 's body and all you have to do is to pull it down and ask the volunteer to step out of it .
9 If it 's not written down I do n't know when they 've had or what they 've had , you 'll have to write it down and put a date on it .
10 I 'll , I 'll write it down and put a sticker up on the wall .
11 Just bung that in like that seal it down and put a stamp on it .
12 The goal is made concrete by writing it down and making a commitment to it .
13 After the sketch came the paint — black paint , and a lot of ‘ turps ’ to water it down and divide the picture into blocks of light and shadow .
14 They 've got a spare room in my mum 's flat so I just took it over and put a weights bench in and , what else , a rowing machine and I started to do some weights
15 The evidence you found may not on its own be inconsistent with the suicide theory , but just the same , it 's your duty to hand it over and let the police decide if it 's worth following up . ’
16 After my uncle 's death in April 1976 he visited Wyvis Hall on perhaps two , or at the most three , separate occasions simply for the purpose of looking it over and reaching a decision about the disposal of furniture and effects .
17 They thought it over and suggested a percentage to the labourer if he provided the baskets and made the sale .
18 Casually , Juliet turned it over and read the words .
19 I always put it off and played a lot of sport at high school instead , until I hurt my knee really badly .
20 ‘ As you know there are two kinds of roughing you can either put frost-nails in the shoe or you can take it off and turn the heels and the toes of the shoes up — turning 'em up , we used to call it .
21 One of the station employees was following a discarded wrapper across the concrete , trying to pick it up but thwarted every time by a fresh breeze that blew the litter out of his reach .
22 It 's just a little gel that you put in the palm of your hand use some warm water and lather it up and put the lather over your face .
23 so that 's how it works , open it up and get the mast .
24 He picked it up and set the flowers down on the locker .
25 Maybe I could stack it up and set the place alight , so that they — and that terrible female they were now conspiring to bring to life — would perish in the flames , together with all Frankenstein 's instruments and notes .
26 She picked it up and saw the name Jarrett Keach flowing across it in brown mock handwriting which was presumably a facsimile of Jarrett 's own signature .
27 It 's questions and answers , I do n't know , I 've forgotten , I , I , I only opened it up and had a look at it at Christmas and I thought thirty something pounds for that , a load of rubbish , I do n't know what it is .
28 Well that man bought the distillery in Stromness and broke it up and sold the timber out of it .
29 He picked it up and studied the contours of the face , a slight smile on his lips .
30 The telephone rang , and as soon as she picked it up and heard the echo on the line from the Prince 's lofty Palace rooms , she knew who was calling .
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