Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] it [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it is only because he is trying so hard to get it right that he can be said to get it wrong at all , and the gauche hero is above all the example of social over-anxiety , like Betjeman 's subaltern weak for love on a Hampshire tennis-court : his palms moist at the first handshake , one imagines , his over-careful manners a veneer masking racking uncertainties , and an over-developed sense of social duty enforcing its own inner punishment . |
| 2 | I mean , I have n't had to clean it out at all . |
| 3 | How much is it , two thousand pounds , well she 's offered to pay it back at two pounds a week and er it 's gon na take a long time , is n't it , Sir , for her to pay it back ? |
| 4 | Before 1962 he had attempted to modify it through at least five distinct initiatives : by sponsoring a political confederation of Western European states ; by proposing a restructuring of NATO ; by fostering a special relationship with the Federal Republic of Germany ; by decolonizing and establishing new connections with Third World nations ; and by pushing ahead with the development of France 's nuclear weapons programme . |
| 5 | I had a small beach searchlight but was not allowed to switch it on at night . |
| 6 | They 're not really allowed to make it down at the farm . |
| 7 | The premium charged by the Roman Catholic church orphanage was nearly £50 and Lily was required to pay it back at 10/ a month until , in 1931 , she was finally released from the burden of payment . |