Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] it [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah and Ann was on about it you see and I said oh well some noisy bloody neighbours and I and I said oh well it 's like your telly in n it ! |
| 2 | On and on about it he was when we walked up to the bridge . ’ |
| 3 | If you think a little about it you will be able to convince yourself that Rk is nothing other than the old familiar resistance ( proportional to length ; inversely proportional to cross-section ) derived in a different manner . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't care much for it myself , Lieutenant , especially if it 's a military plane and even more especially if it 's carrying bombs of any sort . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sure if you thought hard enough about it you 'd know the reason for that , Seb . |
| 6 | So we 'll put her in for it I mean with her form break it down , I hope they ask her to you know ? |
| 7 | And towards morning , when the snow turned again to rain , the whole hillside under which they were camped had become furrowed and scoured by a hundred brooks scurrying and leaping downwards into the river valley , till the level of the flood crept up towards their outposts , and its tributaries carried down into it everything movable that came in their way , including some of the hobbled horses , and the wreckage of tents , and drowned men . |
| 8 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 9 | Once the papacy had taken on board the idea of a territorial state , economic power and independence became all important and along with it its concomitant military power and force . |
| 10 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 11 | It should be a close race on paper , but when it comes down to it we 'll see what happens . |
| 12 | But I have to say that they 've been the major percent of them er we think if only they would knuckle down to it they would do it . |
| 13 | So the ideal as far as federal government is concerned is they , they devise policy guidelines and they provide financial inducements to states to implement various programmes but when it comes down to it they run up against the rock of the constitution and the constitution says that the states derive their authority from this sacred document and they are not to be tampered with and the consequence is that America has , not only a federal government , but fifty state governments er and those state governments are large enterprises which enjoy wide initiative and they contributors , contribute to the divi diversity of the United States as a political system . |
| 14 | When it comes down to it you look after number one . |
| 15 | But when it comes down to it you ca n't do it can you ? |
| 16 | And also someone like him because I mean , I mean er obviously he , he seemed like a , I mean I 'm sure he 's a nice guy er I mean when it comes down to it he probably is a nice guy , he 's probably nice to her but it 's just the fact that he is so restricted in his views and |
| 17 | Now the other thing about an integral really when it boils down to it it 's only a number or a function or a sine or a cos it comes down to you these are just numbers you 're playing with erm |
| 18 | if they wanted to come along to it they could |
| 19 | This special tool has a piece of quartz built in to it which releases energy — the spark — when it 's squeezed . |
| 20 | She gulped hard , struggling to suppress the impulse to laugh , knowing that if she gave in to it she would not be able to stop . |
| 21 | but erm , you know , I remember as coming across one or two obstacles and I could n't get in to it I thought if I 'd tried a bit harder , I did n't want to start you know so |
| 22 | As she gazed down at it her heart missed a beat . |
| 23 | The battledress trousers were inclined to go baggy and the uniform jacket was a bit severe , so whenever we could get away with it we wore the other two items , and tended to let our hair float over our collars — also banned . |
| 24 | Do n't know we get away with it they want the whole lot bloody scrapping and the new lot all the rust ones , there 's hardly one decent is there ? |
| 25 | How the Rev Bain gets away with it I do n't know . |
| 26 | There was a sense of immaturity in our society , an admiration of the crook , the kind of cock-eyed notion that if someone could get away with it he was a Robin Hood type who could somehow feather his own nest and at the same time feather theirs . |
| 27 | ‘ And if he 's thinking he 'll be getting away with it he can think again ! |
| 28 | But if he thought he could get away with it he could think again ! |
| 29 | In order to achieve this position , your bowman must know where the line is and how far away from it you are at any given moment . |
| 30 | It 's just a pity that the castle itself is a little bit indistinct I mean , when you stand away from it you ca n't er you can hardly see the castle there and er , it is an attractive castle , photographed many times but I would just like to see that shown up a little more in the picture . |