Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't have expected it at all . |
| 2 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Because the characters and the dialogue of this offstage life were created by the original cast , we have not included it in this script . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 've modified it in this way . |
| 6 | Even knowing she looked ridiculous , she 'd enjoyed it after that first entrance , had loved being on a stage again , singing with the company . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 11 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 12 | Hopefully I have learned from past mistakes and now have honed it in such a way that it has become my profession . |
| 13 | Now you said that you 'd actually presented it in another way and were just , and , and had just changed it . |
| 14 | Never done it with that |
| 15 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 16 | Somehow a favourite dress or toy of Paige 's would be damaged , but she had done it with such guile that her parents could never be sure it was intentional . |
| 17 | But I know that 's what it was you know because the wee lassie done it with this special electronic thing |
| 18 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 19 | I 've done it for all kinds of things , I mean , I , I cook vegetables in them in it and I warm up |
| 20 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 21 | And there 's no use getting in the exam on Thursday and say ah well I 'm afraid I 've not done it on that arm so erm lost |
| 22 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 23 | and you need more so really you needed to have done it on this line . |
| 24 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 25 | Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all . |
| 26 | I do n't like housework particularly — it 's just a bore , it 's so monotonous , and with a child you 've done it once and five minutes later it just does n't look as though you 've done it at all . |
| 27 | ‘ They just put a tick on it if you 've done it at all . |
| 28 | ‘ She never would have done it without such easy access to a gun ’ Woman used jail issue weapon to take her own life |
| 29 | If she could have wiped his memory as well as her own , she 'd have done it without any hesitation , and at whatever cost . |
| 30 | Yes , alright , yes , I mean I have n't done it like that , I 've got to analyse it through green , when I actually was aware that I was stopping doing my B M S and had to do something else for whatever reason . |