Example sentences of "it 's [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | agreed that they 've lent this money out , but it 's bounced back you see , it 's bouncing back on them , and this , everything 's bouncing back on everybody now , but it seems |
| 2 | Directly in front of the house beyond a huge weeping beech tree so big it 's propped up with telegraph poles in concrete . |
| 3 | It 's ganning back in the morning . |
| 4 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 5 | If it 's rotating round like you want me to draw . |
| 6 | First of all you 're keeping them alive , then you see them getting steadily better and you know it 's getting through to them . |
| 7 | But , you know , I mean , if the Uni goes to ten thousand in what what is it , it 's getting up for about ninety five , ninety six ? |
| 8 | ‘ It 's getting on for an hour since we left Cartier . ’ |
| 9 | And now ’ — The Fat Controller consulted his watch ; an endomorphic gold Rolex had replaced the full hunter — ‘ it 's getting on for nine-thirty . |
| 10 | I 've done it since I was , well it 's getting on for fifteen years now . |
| 11 | ‘ If they did , they would realise it 's getting out of hand . |
| 12 | Because we need at least one person to do it , it 's go it 's getting out of control now |
| 13 | This is , er , this is the same face as you , yesterday I was on about , we 've tried everything , it 's getting down to that now . |
| 14 | It 's getting back to a sensible level again , and the music — especially the British music — is really pushing forward . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's getting back in one piece that worries me . |
| 16 | It 's building up to critical . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 18 | A rainbow seems like a miracle — it appears out of no-where , it forms a perfect arc — it 's made up of beautiful colours , always the same ones in just the same order — and it always mysteriously disappears . |
| 19 | A whole orange = 100% ( that is , it 's made up of 100 parts ) A whole orange cut into two equal parts becomes two lots of 50 parts . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's made up of anarchists in part and in part middle-class softies . |
| 21 | Is it the valuable service it 's made out to be ? |
| 22 | ‘ All this modelling is n't half as glamorous as it 's made out to be . |
| 23 | People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be . |
| 24 | People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be . |
| 25 | Because the centre can boast its very own igloo — although admittedly it 's made out of bricks and not ice ! |
| 26 | Now … " he rooted through the papers on the floor , " now , here 's your marriage certificate , it 's made out in the name of Paddy Montgomery … " |
| 27 | Its engine is missing badly and it 's circling round as if looking for a landing-place . |
| 28 | His leg looks like it 's broke — it 's sticking out at a funny angle . |
| 29 | End date it 's picking up off the same list . |
| 30 | It 's picking up onto the same list is it ? |