Example sentences of "[vb past] it [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony caught it all on film . |
| 2 | Sally tried to talk to the boy 's mother , but she dismissed it all as harmless pranks . |
| 3 | Eva reported it all as a matter of fact . |
| 4 | He bore it all with bright spirits and was never anything less than an exemplary prisoner . |
| 5 | The lid stopped it all from falling out when you tipped it over and the air is getting in around the cracks in the lid . |
| 6 | He used it all on the pond , I reckon . |
| 7 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
| 8 | Surely you do n't actually believe all that stuff in the papers about how it was so much better in the old days , but then they got in a bunch of yuppies and ruined it all by going down-market and yoof-crazed , do you ? |
| 9 | He surveyed it all from the safety of the trees . |
| 10 | And I ate it all by myself all in one go . |
| 11 | Hello there man , of course I 'm awake , I 'm eating my tea , ha you 're wrong , Russell 's organizing his night so that he 's gon na pick you up half eight quarter to nine okay well I , I ai n't had a shower or anything yet , I mean er everything 's organized I organized it all for picking you up eight quarter to nine , bless you , what 's your number ? |
| 12 | She faced it all with cheerful enthusiasm . |
| 13 | they threw it all in the brook |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't tell me you tidied it all by yourself . ’ |
| 15 | William 's grandad blamed it all on the Television , like most things , the cathode god , the new opium of the masses . |
| 16 | He blamed it all on business , but could not resist taunting her for expecting him to be at h-er beck and call , while disapproving that he was rich . |
| 17 | One day when he had sold a painting for a hundred francs , he spent it all on buying flowers for every woman who passed by in the street in a gesture that Modi much admired . |
| 18 | P. Oh , my worst day — get up , eat food , watch TV , sit in 'cause I 've got no money because I spent it all on Sunday , then off to work till 2am to earn more skating money . |
| 19 | He sounded almost admiring , but then went and spoilt it all by adding , ‘ Although I suppose if you 've gone through life getting yourself into situations like this you would be bound to develop a fairly strong streak of subbornness by now . ’ |
| 20 | Doing as she had bid herself , she walked into the cottage and then spoilt it all by slamming the door . |
| 21 | We signed it all in 1992 . |
| 22 | In the telling it became neither nightmare nor obsession , but a beautiful tale , the stuff of dreams and fairy stories , and Hermione heard it all with tenderness and pleasure while the sun set and the dusk gathered thickly around them . |
| 23 | Everybody heard it all through the town . |
| 24 | Rommel arrived at Alamein , the Russians drove the Germans out of Russia , English and American troops landed on the continent , whole German cities were razed to the ground in one night : I heard it all from the same patch of sand , four hundred yards long by a hundred wide in the middle of a Silesian Pine forest . |
| 25 | He handled it all like a veteran superstar who has long since learned to accept that fame and fortune have a downside , as well as an upside . |
| 26 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 27 | yeah till he sconded it all on gambolling I do n't know what people see in gambolling do you ? its like Willie Thorne |
| 28 | Later that evening we watched it all on television again . |
| 29 | We watched it all through the trees . |
| 30 | Isabel watched it all in a daze , barely conscious of the pain of the soldier 's grip . |