Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ari could stand it no longer . |
| 2 | I suppose buying Gazza would make it even less likely that Rocky would get a game ; - ( |
| 3 | When he had dressed himself he went back out of the kitchen door ; no doubt Ellen would latch it again once she heard him go , her vengeance at what life had done to her completed . |
| 4 | If she knew it , green and uncouth as she was , Pertwee would know it also . |
| 5 | But I do n't suppose Harrods will want it now James has peed on it , will they ? " |
| 6 | Finally the women of Buntong Tiga can stand it no longer — they take matters into their own hands . |
| 7 | Cornelius must go it alone . |
| 8 | As a unique event , Karen could file it away in her snapshot album as one of the interesting things that had happened during her holiday in France . |
| 9 | Early last year , in an interview with a low-circulation Blues fanzine , Bowyer stated that the current political climate in Northern Ireland would make it almost impossible for Catholics to cross the sectarian divide and play for Linfield . |
| 10 | It sounds slightly improbable that my right hon. Friend will be called to a meaningful debate on Scottish constitutional matters in the near future , but will he assure Conservative Members that were he to be so he is fully aware that people in England would take it amiss if any proposition were seriously entertained which allowed Scottish Members to decide matters in Scotland and then to have a say in English matters in England ? |
| 11 | I hope that Commissioner Millan will release it speedily . |
| 12 | They claim that the huge crop will push down prices , and this , coupled with cheap imported plums from Spain will mean it simply wo n't be worth picking the fruits . |
| 13 | At last Theda could stand it no longer . |
| 14 | He startled Philip with him , so impressed Emlyn Williams with a recitation on a London street in a blackout that Williams could recall it precisely forty years later , and introduced anybody he thought would appreciate it to the dark-vowelled , consonant-cracking language of the man whose most famous work would be Under Milk Wood , whose first performance — on radio and stage — would star Richard Burton . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes … and I suppose , if the picture was n't printed until after he 'd gone home Keyserling would send it anyway . |
| 16 | Intel told it that running a current SCO binary on Pentium would win it only twice the performance of SCO Unix on the 80486 , compared with a fourfold increase it could expect with code recompiled for Pentium , although it would mean giving up on backwards compatibility . |
| 17 | Victor could bear it no longer . |
| 18 | After a while Owen could stand it no longer and went along . |
| 19 | Soon Paige could hear it too — there were people climbing up towards them and they were getting closer by the second . |
| 20 | At 3.30 , Anne Butler could bear it no longer . |
| 21 | To follow that rule uncritically for Margery Kempe would make it virtually impossible to reach any conclusion about her from a modern psychiatric viewpoint , given the religious climate of her times . |
| 22 | ‘ Although Victoria Sanchez would do it even better than I would . ’ |
| 23 | He had the irrational feeling that Mr Malik would make it all right . |
| 24 | Now Nepal has encountered difficulties and China will support it morally and in other fields . " |
| 25 | The dilemma of those who evoke consciousness as the basis of phenomena was succinctly stated by Ronnie Knox in his limerick on idealism : There once was a man who said " God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there 's no one about in the Quad . " |
| 26 | Luke Hunter might find it quite natural to have people fussing over him — presumably , with his wealth , it was something he 'd have to get used to . |
| 27 | Francesca might have it right after all , McLeish thought , enjoying the turn of phrase . |
| 28 | Whatever fate now awaits him , the Friar-Tuck figure of Casey would find it physically hard to emulate the vicar . |
| 29 | The governments of an independent Ukraine and Belorussia would find it almost as hard to raise the cash as the Soviet government has done . |
| 30 | I doubt if Calder will take it any further once he 's had time to think it over and realise how upset you were . |