Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stella was torn between getting it right and being manhandled by Meredith . |
| 2 | I occasionally buy an item to add to my own stamp collection but I 'm not committed to keeping it complete . |
| 3 | I do n't know why anyone has n't thought of saying it all before . |
| 4 | Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid . |
| 5 | Even tariffs may have helped by making it better business to own factories inside a market than to try to break into it from outside : the Germans and Swiss supplied the French textile industry in 1900 from eight factories inside France , Germans made chemicals in Russia , and other Germans invested heavily in the coal mines of French Lorraine . |
| 6 | Many people who care or who are cared for find it difficult to understand why they can not get the resources for that care when such vast amounts go towards people who are in residential care . |
| 7 | In front of all the kids no one would be misled into thinking it romantic . |
| 8 | But without your support and your demonstrations and support from whites in other countries with the rugby demonstrations , the cricket , with all aspects that you 've done , you 've also contributed to making it easier for us to be the kind of people we would like to be and I hope in that way we therefore do share as a family and then try and create one world . |
| 9 | The report says that part of the reason for this , apparently , is the instruction sheets provided in Do It All and other stores . |
| 10 | This , for a man whose entire working life had been devoted to making it big in the movies , came as a depressing , frustrating fact as he surveyed his position that year . |
| 11 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 12 | This is an avouching which is ( a ) about the past , and ( b ) not based on evidence ( as would be the sentence ‘ I must have emptied it yesterday ’ uttered on finding it empty ) . |
| 13 | Cos they do n't actually , if you do something like that , say you put plus five , minus five and then sit down and , you 're the one that plus three and minus three you do n't actually lose marks doing something wrong , you can not be penalised for doing it wrong , you can only gain credit for doing something right , because they 'll , give you five marks to doing that bit right and then knock three off for doing something else wrong , they , they would never give you penalty marks , they will only credit for doing things right , but so often it 's quite like down as you want , you ca n't . |
| 14 | Yet the obstacles that it has run into make it probable that even it will miss the end-1992 deadline . |
| 15 | Now , erm my Right Honourable Friend is very keen to see these alterations which we ha which he has proposed erm become erm to take effect , because he thinks that they are right and because a great deal of effort has gone into get it right . |
| 16 | Moreover , if a pilot decides not to launch in a situation like this , he must never be overruled or criticised for playing it safe . |
| 17 | Mr Kaifu has agreed to reshaping his cabinet , but has insisted on keeping it clean . |
| 18 | English Heritage is dedicated to preserving it all , not just the properties we currently manage . |
| 19 | English Heritage is dedicated to preserving it all , not just the properties we currently manage . |
| 20 | English Heritage is dedicated to preserving it all , not just the properties we currently manage . |
| 21 | A friendly , efficient service aimed at getting it right first time . |
| 22 | For that belief is not analytically or necessarily true ; no contradiction is implied by supposing it false . |