Example sentences of "it [adv prt] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she 'll try it on with you Dotty , you mark my words . ’ |
| 2 | In fact , a graphic series of pictures I 'm viewing of Koons getting it on with his 35-year-old fiancé are being made into paintings , sculpture and have even inspired a film . |
| 3 | Governments will then be hard put to get it on to their national statute books by mid-1993 . |
| 4 | Unlike some of its competitors , XVT does not charge a royalty to developers converting their software and then selling it on to their own customers . |
| 5 | Each sex continued to use its original language and to pass it on to their same-sex offspring . |
| 6 | I will certainly pass it on to my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Transport . |
| 7 | Rub it into the palm of your hand , and then spread it on to your own face . |
| 8 | She pegged it on to his blue jersey with the tiny plastic clothes-pins she used for hanging up her dripping stockings in the bathroom to dry overnight . |
| 9 | Robert 's own Christian name , as we know , had come from his maternal grandfather , Robert Hasted , and he passed it on to his second child , Robert Edward ; thereafter the same name would continue in that branch of the family until well into the 20th century . |
| 10 | He replies that there 's no evidence of this , but if Mr French has evidence he should pass it on to his chief constable . |
| 11 | Count Geoffrey , by concentrating his forces on the conquest of Normandy , was able to recover the continental part of his wife 's inheritance by 1144 , and in 1150 he passed it on to his eldest son Henry Plantagenet , now twenty years old . |
| 12 | However , once at the pinnacle of his ambition , his only aim could be to preserve his complete control of the Romanian Party and State , and to pass it on to his own chosen successor . |
| 13 | He jacked it in for something different did |
| 14 | The converted midfield player marked his 25th birthday with the 51st-minute opener and Robert Lee rubbed it in with his first League goal for Newcastle six minutes later after Peacock 's penalty had been beaten out by Perry Suckling . |
| 15 | Robert Lee rubbed it in with his first League goal for Newcastle six minutes later after Peacock 's penalty had been beaten out by Perry Suckling . |
| 16 | After Christmas he had wanted to arrange for the marriage to take place straight away , before he could change his mind , but it was difficult to fit it in with his new duties as a Governor of the Foundling Hospital which required him to spend one day a week in town . |
| 17 | And a superb move there — see how he swept it in with his left foot . |
| 18 | As neither of us knew anything about it we tried to glean as much information on the technical side of sailing as possible and build it in to our globe-trotting plans . |
| 19 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 20 | Mandy either had not noticed the formidable wall of his reserve , or had decided to batter it down with her considerable charm . |
| 21 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 22 | El Capitan poked the baton hard into the small man 's stomach , doubling him , then raised it as if he was going to bring it down on his curled shoulder . |
| 23 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 24 | but until it 's it 's the same with any subject you know until you know what you 're doing until you can tie it down to something physical and until you can understand I mean you always understand by similarities |
| 25 | Her imagination went wild ; she pictured Barney seated in a hard chair in a dingy police interview room while the detective probed and bullied and cajoled , plucking away at the outer layers of his mind , stripping it down to its sensitive core , implacable in his search for signs of weakness or guilt . |
| 26 | The Duchess looked pale and drawn although she quickly put it down to her early start . |
| 27 | ‘ Do so and dear Uncle will simply laugh and put it down to my youthful impetuosity . |
| 28 | ‘ Put it down to my Sagittarian sense of drama . ’ |
| 29 | Just put it down to my perverted sense of humour . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm more inclined to put it down to your Sagittarian impetuosity and clumsiness . ’ |