Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 2 | Although I recognise that for obvious reasons the Secretary of State will not want to be locked or painted into a figure of 512 as the maximum , which is what it would be , will he tell the House whether , in the light of last week 's discussions with President Yeltsin and the changes that have taken place since Christmas , the Government are now considering the minimum deterrent to be somewhat lower than they had previously considered it necessary to be ? |
| 3 | But no , I suppose he would have considered it disloyal to the old man . |
| 4 | It 's , what they 've done is they 've closed er er , erm branch , an office massive office in London and they 've moved them all over to Leeds because they ca n't get the people to take jobs in London so they 've transferred it all to Leeds , and erm there 's a chance of erm getting promotion , well , a very good chance of getting promotion down there . |
| 5 | See we 've done it all without decimal point on the calculator , and we never done . |
| 6 | And Rital , whose east European eyes had seen been and done it all for more of a century than she chose to admit , merely shrugged and locked the door . |
| 7 | ‘ I could have done it all for you with one phone call if you had let me . ’ |
| 8 | We 've done it all by talking to parents and finding our what they really want from us , so let us have your ideas , comments and requests too — after all , it 's your magazine . |
| 9 | I think that I was also over-confident when going into that river as if I 'd done it all before and was some sort of expert . |
| 10 | Yeah , its probably cos they 've done it all before so , they know , they know what goes on there . |
| 11 | But Freeman 's done it all in friendship , so what would I say ? |
| 12 | So I wished I 'd done it all in the first place , now I 've got to do it . |
| 13 | One thinks of Groucho Marx 's quip : ‘ Giving up smoking is easy — I 've done it hundreds of times . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have done it thousands of times before and will do it thousands of times again . ’ |
| 15 | Still , forget Andrew Motion , I could have written it all in a sentence . |
| 16 | I 'd rather have said it all to his face ! |
| 17 | I mean poor dogs and this , I mean we 've said it all before it 's not viable , four dogs and a semi that you do n't exercise , four dogs that er appear particularly one of them to be housed in the same little area , day in day out with a curtain on the door , so that there 's not even light going in there |
| 18 | ‘ You keep thinking you have seen it all in football , but then you see something else like this . |
| 19 | Not Fat Paul — Fat Paul , with his full-breasted bulk , his impassive sloped slab of a face , his parched pub rug , and the cruel blond eyebrows which give the eyes themselves the glint of a veteran ferret who has seen it all in the hare-traps and rat-pits . |
| 20 | I have seen it all in my very own Camden often enough , but it is new to me somehow . |
| 21 | Erm a , th th the situ , you know the situation abo , about about charity , charity we 've we 've seen it all before and it has n't helped the starving millions in Africa , it 's beginning to start all over again . |
| 22 | Again , Palin 's natural humour and ability to laugh at a situation is never far away , but I ca n't shake the feeling that we 've seen it all before somewhere . |
| 23 | He had seen it hundreds of times on the faces of people who fancied that they had said too much to him , opened their hearts too wide . |
| 24 | ‘ We must have seen it dozens of times , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Volkswagen , which helped develop the smaller Eurobag specifically for smaller cars , introduced the Eurobag as optional equipment on the Golf last year and has now made it available on the Passat saloon as well . |
| 26 | Merck , the US pharmaceutical company which discovered that this drug — originally developed as a treatment for worms in animals — could have a beneficial effect in humans , has made it available in West Africa free of charge . |
| 27 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 28 | The Labour government of 74–79 had made it compulsory for local education authorities to reorganise secondary schools along comprehensive lines in the 1976 Education Act , but one of the first acts of the Conservative government of 1979 was to repeal this . |
| 29 | But the loss of military independence , industrial capacity , employment and markets that such a policy would involve has always made it unacceptable to Western European governments and electorates , including our own . |
| 30 | We always regarded it as a partnership , we just had n't made it official by telling the Institute or the Inland Revenue . ’ |