Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's all so ridiculous that we 're not going to even think about it any more , ’ she said firmly , hiding her fears . |
| 2 | I I 'm sorry I just take that as automatic , I do n't even think about it any more . |
| 3 | I remember that , remember the feeling of his warm , cooling , sunlit juice on my hand , slippy becoming sticky , but I ca n't think about it any more without thinking of gorilla man and the little guy tied to the chair . |
| 4 | ‘ Then do n't think about it any more for now , ’ Belinda advised . |
| 5 | I wo n't think about it any more . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Let's think about it some more — but it sounds like something we could go for . ’ |
| 7 | The Clinton administration now thinks dialogue is the answer : that people , in Mr Babbitt 's words , should ‘ talk , talk , talk about this issue , until we do n't want to talk about it any more . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't want to talk about it any more . |
| 9 | Zoe was n't keen to talk about it any more . |
| 10 | It was a chance in a million that I came through it all alive . ’ |
| 11 | It must have been very galling for Major , when he established membership of the A-Team to write the election manifesto , that he had to choose for it those very men who are most likely to profit from his failure . |
| 12 | ‘ Say the words , my dear one , and I wo n't speak about it any more . |
| 13 | ‘ It will be a community facility which will bring with it 30 much-needed jobs . |
| 14 | First , a infecting plasmid may bring with it some metabolic ability or resistance to some drug . |
| 15 | sort that cultural otherness does not carry with it any necessary hierarchy of superiority/inferiority which can be appropriately labelled by such terms as " primitive " , " backward " , " underdeveloped " , " childish " , " ignorant " , " simple " , " primeval " , " pre-literate " , or whatever . |
| 16 | well I 'm sorry but from where I 'm looking at it sixty two but not that I 've thought about it in any depth but |
| 17 | Christians have hindsight , you 're looking at it , you 're looking at it two thousand years later and you can see him riding into Jerusalem on a donkey , knowing that he 's going to a victory . |
| 18 | And me granny to help me and he was the land nobody could really find that if you came across it one nasty day well you 're there and you 're kind of stop there if the went away . |
| 19 | Do n't worry , Aurora — I wo n't be going after it any more . ’ |
| 20 | Your home will not suffer for a couple of weeks without anyone to look after it any more than when you go on holiday . |
| 21 | I do n't believe in it any more . ’ |
| 22 | Nothing happened in it any more . |
| 23 | It was a bit of a pill at the time and y used to pay a shilling in the pound , well a shilling was a lot more valuable than it is now and erm I used to begrudge paying in it forty eight and sixpence but it does provide the , well the pleasures of life now , whereby the pens the ordinary old age pension would n't . |
| 24 | The priest blessed them , then gave the word , and with a roar , knives unsheathed , the front ranks of the crowd rushed the dais and slashed at the wood of the Virgin 's triumphal car and , shouting aloud , carried it off in fragments ; she continued to look upon it all unmoved from her new perch , and someone came back glorying in his spoils — was it her uncle , or her mother 's father ? — with splinters for each of the family and a chunk the size of a brick for himself . |
| 25 | When we create a new nation , however , we can not transfer to it this prescriptive authority which is the essence of our own state . |
| 26 | He wrote to Rohde in 1868 , encouraging his friend to follow suit : " we must do it simply because we can not do anything else … [ but ] … for our part let us see to it that young philologists are brought up with the necessary scepticism , free from pedantry and the over-valuation of their profession , and behave as genuine promoters of humanistic studies . |
| 27 | In time , she hoped that some theatrical Producer would see to it that Shakespearian plays were performed on the cliffs again , as they had been in the nineteen thirties . |
| 28 | The planners could determine the availability of finance : ‘ Every single externally financed project was therefore meant to be scrutinized for conformity with the targets and if the projects passed this test the Commission would see to it that sufficient tax and credit incentives would be made available ’ ( Estrin and Holmes , 1983 , p. 179 ) . |
| 29 | Whether such a ferret fatality can be attributed to it remaining unmated is highly debatable . |
| 30 | This ‘ lobon-gur ’ solution ( LGS ) was prepared by taking ‘ half a seer ’ of tube well or boiled water and adding to it one three-finger pinch of ‘ lobon ’ ( exactly up to the first crease of the index finger ) and two four-finger scoops of ‘ gur ’ , then stirring well . |