Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , he 's optimistic we 'll have sorted it by two thirty . |
| 2 | Steffi Graf has won it for six of the last seven years , picking up a cheque for around £45,000 for her latest victory in October . |
| 3 | Michael also took away the distinction of being the youngest archer ever to win the contest from Ben Hird , who had won it aged nineteen in 1900 . |
| 4 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |
| 5 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 6 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 7 | then I have embellished it with red and blue gemstones and a drop-pearl ( from an old earring ) in the centre . |
| 8 | For space close to the king was limited , and few occupied it for more than a decade or so , partly through accidents of mortality , partly through a career-structure in which the holding of high office in the royal household was often the prelude to a provincial post , but most of all through the play of faction around the king . |
| 9 | The Government talk about the enlargement of the Community and apparently have included it as one of their objectives for the British presidency next year . |
| 10 | Because the characters and the dialogue of this offstage life were created by the original cast , we have not included it in this script . |
| 11 | A distrust of social revolutions was not absent from their considerations , any more than a distrust of traditional religion whose sacred texts committed it to discontinuous change ( ‘ creation ’ ) and interference with the regularity of nature ( ‘ miracles ’ ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 've modified it in this way . |
| 13 | Even knowing she looked ridiculous , she 'd enjoyed it after that first entrance , had loved being on a stage again , singing with the company . |
| 14 | He also took over the editorship of The Stopfordian from Mr. D. J. Roberts , the Second Master since 1978 , who had edited it from 1959 . |
| 15 | This remodelling might also be contemporary with the decision to provide earthwork defences , though it could have preceded it by several years on current dating evidence ; either way , such changes mark a significant watershed in the town 's development and pose important questions about its status and function . |
| 16 | Indeed , having been brought up after the war and having heard of the plight of those poor people , one has never forgotten it in any case . |
| 17 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 18 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 19 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 20 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 21 | back down the road … and further Solar Flair is still going … they 've cracked it at last … and are up to forty five miles an hour … next stop is Adelaide the city that closes its streets to grand prix cars … today … the roads are open and the crowds out to welcome them in … |
| 22 | It belonged to another College , which had let it to one of its fellows . |
| 23 | Now you said that you 'd actually presented it in another way and were just , and , and had just changed it . |
| 24 | With characteristic business acumen , the Swiss spas saw the renaissance of the classical water therapy on the way , beckoning all sections of society , and they have turned it to good account . |
| 25 | Announcing his first programme yesterday , he spoke of the ‘ awesome responsibility ’ of following Joan Knight who has turned it into one of the most successful theatres in the country with an average audience of more than 7,000 people for each production . |
| 26 | You know you can do it you can do the fractions and once you 've turned it into twelfths you can do it . |
| 27 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 28 | I know , because I have applied it with complete success to his own speeches and writings . |
| 29 | In October 1861 he took the matter out of the hands of the old guard and transferred it to keen reformers . |
| 30 | Never done it with that |