Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I heard they were on about moving it to eighteen . |
2 | Well they 're on about backdating it to the third . |
3 | Erm you , you did , you know , you did summarize with what you thought you , you 'd established erm you went through to , to get your second appointment Steve threw , you know , the objection in about sending it in the post and what have you erm er and , and you o you overcame that erm successfully but I think the other thing that , that with , with the ANNA it , it unless you get that authority the rest of it is meaningless because you know you ca n't go on and , and , well you can agree the needs but there 's no way that he 's , he 's gon na agree to do it now or when you go back or , or even perhaps agree on the amount . |
4 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
5 | Gary McKeown slanted over an inviting ball , but it was criminal negligence for the visitors to allow Gary Paterson the time and space to chest the ball down before burying it in the net . |
6 | Yeah , it 's like the little ones , they the , the , the , erm , they handle all sorts , and when you comes actually down to seeing it on paper , you ke , it 's alright if they 're just counting it there in the hands and stuff . |
7 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
8 | This seems to suggest a negative feedback loop , driving the quality of research down by depriving it of central funds . |
9 | The children are not allowed to touch the fish with the paper and try to move it along by hitting it on the floor to create a draught . |
10 | Now that is a humiliating experience , so you get through by turning it into a joke . |
11 | He drew on it , then took it out of his mouth and nipped the end off before dropping it on the floor . |
12 | ‘ It 's a very rare model , but while I ca n't get fired up to restoring it at the moment , I just can not bring myself to sell it , ’ is Gordon 's dilemma . |
13 | A lower level route is also a good option for days when you 're not feeling up to making it across the tops . |
14 | In this way , the original small nucleus of people grows by adding people to it in stages , much as a snowball can be built up by rolling it along the snow on the ground ( e.g. Plant 1975 ; Mars 1982 ) . |
15 | He ended up by selling it for £500 to Mr Staples , from whom he originally bought the site for the same sum . |
16 | The very thought made her mouth water , but she 'd cut her tongue out before admitting it to him after what he had said . |
17 | Helen will want the wedding to take place from here , but I 'll have to hold her back from making it into such a big affair that it will take months to prepare . ’ |
18 | He sliced a quarter-inch off the block and went back to chopping it into fine powder . |
19 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |
20 | We tested this out by taking it around the office and the people in the office thought it was a bit boring we er thought it was great for the youngsters who probably like it so er erm and the merchandise we 've actually , we 've made up certain things , T-shirts and , and , and wacky items that again er relate to , to young people so that they get into the , the , the theme of the thing and the , the whole year carries forward on a , on a certain colour theme and , and , and so on , so er we 've done our best as sailing coaches not only learning to be marketeers again the money , where 's the money come from ? |
21 | Its owners move themselves about by protruding it from the shell and rippling its undersurface . |
22 | I ca n't remember when I have n't had to work on Christmas Day became the animals have never got round to recognizing it as a holiday ; but with the passage of the years the vague resentment I used to feel has been replaced by philosophical acceptance . |