Example sentences of "[adv prt] [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 | Ted went in for it all with great , childlike alacrity . |
7 | It 's it 's a long stretch of time the troops need pinning down with it that 's all I 'm saying . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | And the studio went along with it all . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Better arrange for the coal lorr lorry to back in to it one day . |
18 | Ever since Vogue homed in on it last December , the Wonderbra has been literally bouncing off the shelves . |
19 | 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 … |
20 | Many Nigerians still do not quite believe that he will go through with it this time . |
21 | He was definitely put off by it all . |
22 | That it had it head bit off by it young ’ |
23 | She felt like a government health warning , but the sheer pleasure of having won her first big race made up for it all . |
24 | Harvey missed the conversion but made up for it ten minutes later with an angled penalty . |
25 | As she slipped her mink coat over her shoulders , she resolved to make up for it next day . |
26 | Few people would be sold a new car without a handbook , or even attempt to grow cabbages without reading up about it first , but the same people will on impulse buy a new puppy without the foggiest idea of what is involved |
27 | Pippa Nolan says they 're up against it all the time … lots of riders have young horses and they 've all had good rounds … but it 's a sport of ups and downs and this year she 's had her fair share of downs |
28 | Put up with it all like everybody else , he supposed glumly . |
29 | I suppose it 's a bit like Orbital , that type of area , I du n no , I ca n't keep up with it all . |
30 | but I 'm getting a bit fed up with it this week |