Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funny , she had forgotten about it all afternoon , even to putting this dress on . |
| 2 | But er and then when television come her mother was sat over it all times and she used to tell me about going to pictures . |
| 3 | No I 've not looked at it that way . |
| 4 | ‘ She wanted to choose the family herself , ’ suggested Juliet , who had n't looked at it that way . |
| 5 | After the phenomenal success of In Which We Serve , the Italian producer Filippo del Giudice , whose belief in high-budget artistic filmmaking was in line with Rank 's , attached his Two Cities company to Independent Producers , and made through it such films as the Lean-Coward This Happy Breed ; Laurence Olivier 's rampantly patriotic version of Shakespeare 's Henry V ( 1945 ) ; Thorold Dickinson 's unbalanced Men of Two Worlds ( 1946 , Witch Doctor in US ) and Carol Reed 's Odd Man Out ( 1945 , Gang War in US ) , the story of a dying gunman 's desperate search for charity on the streets of Belfast . |
| 6 | He had already seen to it that fodder had been stored in stone-built barns situated at strategic points on lower pastures . |
| 7 | Got through it this time . |
| 8 | " Well , " the McLaren girl said , " I guess the whole thing was kind of a bother , but I had n't thought of it that way . |
| 9 | Well I 've never thought of it that way . |
| 10 | She could see he had not thought of it this way . |
| 11 | Well I thought I 'd got over it this week and Foxy and you were really nice to me and everyone was , you know ? |
| 12 | The index at the back of Roget 's lists over 1000 words , each of which has indented underneath it another list of words . |
| 13 | Although he had marvelled at it many times , Ludovico had never become blase about the stupendous vista from the Villa Battista and its famous terrace that ran the whole length of the low , pale yellow house . |
| 14 | It began to re-surface when Greg Farrel walked into the cottage with the swaggering confidence of a man who had walked into it many times before . |
| 15 | The limelight cast on NT-on-Alpha and the number of adjectives spent on it this week is expected to have a negative , if not fatal impact on the rickety ACE Initiative , whose founders , including Compaq and SCO , are perceived to be abandoning it for greener pastures , despite claims to the contrary . |
| 16 | She had pondered on it all night — that and the image of his laughing eyes and the way his full , firm lips tipped so readily into that wickedly sexy smile . |
| 17 | They 've probably stepped on it enough times . |
| 18 | ‘ But I have gone over it many times in my mind about why we lost so heavily in India and one of the main reasons for me was that we were not used to playing on turning pitches . |
| 19 | She was forced into it that night in The Chase . |
| 20 | Glennis O'Connor , a secretary in London 's East End , whose son Conrad is now 14 months , says , ‘ I had a horrible time trying to breastfeed — I had one nipple that was so sore it felt like hot pepper was being rubbed into it each time I fed Conrad . |
| 21 | I mean , we 've passed over it several times since we first heard the ticking and we 've triggered nothing . |
| 22 | Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River . |
| 23 | This experiment was quickly followed up by others using protein synthesis inhibitors , all essentially leading to the same conclusion — that if protein synthesis was prevented during the period over which an animal was trained , or for up to about an hour subsequently , then although the animal could learn the task , when tested on it some time later — say the next day — it behaved as if it were naïve . |
| 24 | so I should , er , that should have set the precedent , I get paid for it this year |
| 25 | When you have listened to it many times as we had , you get to recognise the unique sound , it is absolutely unmistakable . |
| 26 | Even fixtures can be goods for the purposes of the CPA 1987 because s45(1) defines " goods " to include , " substances , growing crops and things comprised in land by virtue of being attached to it any ship , aircraft or vehicle " . |
| 27 | in areas supplied by river systems , such as the Thames Valley , water can be taken from the river , used and returned to it several times with the result that much of its initial quality has been lost . |
| 28 | My passport was wet and creased from where I had lain on it all night ; but it was there . |