Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going . |
| 2 | Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures and complains that there were few at the British Museum , still fewer in provincial libraries . |
| 3 | Gloucestershire is the first of many ambulance services intending to adopt the new livery and they hope eventually to have it on their whole fleet . |
| 4 | It is common for some mothers to ask their child to do something and then walk away expecting it to be done . |
| 5 | Imagine still doing it at forty ! ’ |
| 6 | I know there advertising it on the T V |
| 7 | At the same time the kairos approach apparently allows it to be said that the past has not been at fault ; it is simply that God moves with humanity into a new age . |
| 8 | But 95 per cent of the studies he reviews deal with the assessment , causes , and treatment of homosexuality , and in doing so , continue indirectly to define it as a problem . |
| 9 | An impromptu purchase , and a bit extravagant , but remaining tidily or prettily dressed is an important investment in job search , marriage and social life , so I try only to slum it in track suit at weekends and totally quiet evenings at home . |
| 10 | If you ca n't remember it , do n't copy it : look at it again , and try again to write it from memory . |
| 11 | Then I do normally watch it with you . |
| 12 | The five of us do still treat it like a joke , like a laugh . |
| 13 | I said you , she said yes , I 'm afraid so and I said I do sometimes begrudge it to those men in there . |
| 14 | Very few people have the luxury of starting completely from scratch although those who do seldom see it as an advantage . |
| 15 | They 've all bought it for nothing . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've only seen it from a great distance . |
| 17 | But I 've only seen it in some of the |
| 18 | We 've only lent it to them . ’ |
| 19 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 20 | And they 've only got it to seven ? |
| 21 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
| 22 | you 've just done it for there . |
| 23 | When I hate doing it is with my own records ; I 've just heard it in my head for so long . |
| 24 | I 've just nipped it off the top of that one , that 's not growing any more |
| 25 | You 've just confirmed it for me . ’ |
| 26 | They 've just made it into a town where people are travelling out to go to work |
| 27 | I 've just read it to you , you blooming |
| 28 | I 've just put it to the boss to see if he 's er |
| 29 | I 've just put it in there . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've just measured it with my knitting tape . |