Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , I mean , we , we was on about it one day , and she was only sat on the table next to us , ooh she was giving us daggers ! |
| 2 | One goes on about it all the time , saying she must go on a diet , and start jogging and stuff , the other one does n't . |
| 3 | I asked myself that question on many occasions and wondered how I was supposed to refresh his and other people 's memories without risking the accusation of going on about it all the time . |
| 4 | Mm he was on about it last night , he says well I think all we really need is to look at is two hundred pound up front , buy the equipment , couple of decent speakers , a graphic equalizer and the twin deck tapers |
| 5 | But Val was on about it last summer . |
| 6 | Lucker and I spoke very little about it this morning , and it has remained that way . |
| 7 | He was so extraordinarily quiet and self-possessed , it was almost as if he were chatting to us confidentially about it all instead of making an elaborate speech . |
| 8 | The only people who did keep in touch with Ken for more than a block of years in which they were extremely close , only for it all to fade away , were Stanley Baxter and Gordon Jackson . |
| 9 | And it did not take long for it all to boil down to that maxim — the Duty To Win . |
| 10 | Ted went in for it all with great , childlike alacrity . |
| 11 | John Newsom brought to that task an intimate knowledge of the workings of the Establishment , a rich store of anecdote ( much of it scurrilous ) , a delight in getting to know his fellow members and in entertaining them in princely style , and a huge sense of fun . |
| 12 | According to the Soil Association — the largest body of organic farmers , of which Tustian is a member — although sales of organic produce have increased overall because there is more of it in the shops ( much of it imported ) , the recession also means that some of it lingers on the shelves for longer . |
| 13 | It 's it 's a long stretch of time the troops need pinning down with it that 's all I 'm saying . |
| 14 | Jefferson Airhead are definitely a band of the times — young but old-headed , exuberant but smart , and fired with the possibilities of the new pop euphoria ; anything goes and Jefferson Airhead are going along with it all . |
| 15 | And the studio went along with it all . |
| 16 | While many feminists will abhor Segal 's conclusions about violence and pornography , I found them extremely relevant at a time when the British anti-porn bandwagon is sweeping along with it Labour women MPs and anti-censorship feminists , in company with the powerful , pro-family , homophobic moral right . |
| 17 | As we made our way down towards Butter Tubs Pass following the boundary fence , Bill found the head of a freshly killed grouse , possibly the work of a fox , and refused to put it down again but walked along with it head first in his mouth , the neck feathers sticking out like a shuttlecock . |
| 18 | This first wave of West Walians to the new industrial areas of north-eastern South Wales brought a distinctive radical , nonconformist , and Welsh-speaking element to a pastoral community that had remained largely conservative and unchanged from the late seventeenth century and was slowly losing the old Welsh language — rapidly so in Monmouthshire — and along with it any acute sense of separate national identity . |
| 19 | The image of his face flashed past and together with it all the days of early summer , Jubilee summer . |
| 20 | This is a different Switzerland , an area where places to play and places to relax somehow live side by side with that never-to-be-suppressed Swiss past , which looks down on it all , smiling benevolently but quietly insisting that the twentieth century must keep its place and show respect . |
| 21 | Bob wanted chicken tikka massala and then he said give me the list and wrote down on it two chicken tikka massalas so I look on that and I ca n't see anything two chicken kormas , one and two chicken tikka massalas . |
| 22 | Oh , I think the majority always have worked hard , but they , some of them became quite flamboyant and extravagant in their gestures about what they , how they wanted to change things , and I think nowadays they , perhaps sadly , really , they feel they , they ca n't so they just knuckle down to it all . |
| 23 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |
| 24 | And if Orrie had not already tramped all over it this morning , since his discovery , nosing out the signs of trespass , there just might be something to be found . |
| 25 | Strangely , this is not one of the books mentioned by Mr Taylor , perhaps because the Sunday Times will be giving a page or so to it next week . |
| 26 | Better arrange for the coal lorr lorry to back in to it one day . |
| 27 | Ever since Vogue homed in on it last December , the Wonderbra has been literally bouncing off the shelves . |
| 28 | What Alice could not forgive herself was that she had been taken in by it all well , she had had the sense to get out in time , and meet people who could lead her on the right path … |
| 29 | IT 'S not worth it any more . |
| 30 | He was carried away with it all , the homage , the serious danger that he might fall , for it was a perilous balance , his great neck straining out the window . |