Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This probably helped undermine support for a new right-wing party , the National Democrats , whose anti-U S , anti-Soviet and anti-immigrant policies had won it up to ten per cent of support in Länder elections in 1966 — 8 . |
| 2 | Charge , you 've turned it on for ten hours , how much will I charge you ? |
| 3 | Yeah , Joyce has turned it down to one |
| 4 | But done it up to two or three thousand pounds for an estate , knowing that it |
| 5 | You think if I had n't bought it and done it up at enormous personal cost this cottage would still be standing ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would n't put it past the old devil to have done it out of sheer bravado . ’ |
| 7 | I found out that my friend 's games , my friend 's games but he he 's lent it out to some |
| 8 | I have written it out at this length for you , the teacher . |
| 9 | The old Richardson family would have written it off as small change . |
| 10 | Jarvis has built it up through sheer hard work . |
| 11 | In all sixteen teams had made it through to this stage and with a full house the scene was set for an evening of top quizzing . |
| 12 | Rovers chief executive Frank Corfe said : ‘ We are absolutely delighted to have made it in after six years of trying . |
| 13 | ‘ The Labour Party has n't thought it through at all , ’ says Richard Whitfield of the National Family Trust . |
| 14 | While I 've been to er while I 've been shopping I have n't had it on at all . |
| 15 | Next week , she would have talked it through with three or four different people . |
| 16 | It 's got it down on all these adult educational classes that even though . |
| 17 | Oh we 've got it down to absolute fine art now ! |
| 18 | but as I wrote this and you know put in the acc th the conflict , it came up to two thousand five hundred words and I taped it and timed it and I 've been butchering it and cutting out all the really nice little sentences and the nice sentences and I 've got it down to two one sixty and now with that announcement on the end , as I 've got it taped , it 's fourteen minutes fifty-nine seconds for a fifteen minute slot , so it 's about as precise as you 're gon na get it . |
| 19 | I er in fact you 've wrapped it up in one sentence . |
| 20 | I think we must have bunged it up with some gunge ! |
| 21 | I have narrowed it down to one of two employees , both of whom work in the kitchen . |
| 22 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 23 | It 's such a bizarre thing , sliding an object over guitar strings — I mean , who would have figured it out without some kind of influence ? |
| 24 | Who would have figured it out without some kind of influence ? ’ |
| 25 | Right two so is you shared it out between two people you get a half , one , twoth , one over two . |
| 26 | So this was so they had a pizza sort of shared it out between ten people . |
| 27 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 28 | This is still a binding holiday agreement on both you and us , but we have set it out in plain English , in a way that we hope you will find informative and easy to read . |
| 29 | Erm , well , what you did , when you talked about that , and then erm , linked it up with Freudian insights into the unconscious . |
| 30 | The red stripes across the top half of its shell marked it out as some sort of high ranking officer . |