Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean there was , there was a wonderful Times cartoon , I do n't know if you saw it , of Yeltsin showing all the troubles he , he could n't control his government , there were economic problems , people were being nasty to him apparently as he was saying how do we manage and it turns out of course at the end , the final kick line is he 's talking about John Major 's situation . |
| 2 | I wish I could have stopped it before it got out of hand . |
| 3 | On Easter Monday , 1 April 1907 , No. 19 was running as an extra car to Sutton with a full holiday load of passengers , when it got out of control on Wallington Railway Bridge and ran away down the gradient in Park Lane . |
| 4 | Last year , it got out of compound fertilizers in short order , closing plants at Billingham , on Teesside , and at Edinburgh . |
| 5 | Consequently , as stories reached the capital of excessive clampdowns and criticisms , the leadership were unnerved and had to halt the campaign before it got out of hand . |
| 6 | But it got out of hand in 1981 , when Andreas Papandreou 's Socialists came to power . |
| 7 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 8 | If she had been feeling fitter and healthier , she certainly would have been better equipped to deal with the stresses , and to control her weight gain before it got out of hand . |
| 9 | We done it for a laugh and because we were bored and it got out of hand . |
| 10 | But then she remembered the insults he had piled on her and she stifled any sympathy before it got out of hand . |
| 11 | It may have started a bit playfully but I thought it got out of hand . |
| 12 | But somehow or another it got out of sequence . |
| 13 | It passed out of the family 's hands and became a mental hospital in 1935 . |
| 14 | Once the action and reaction grievance-violence-remedy of grievance has been set up , it goes on of its own accord . |
| 15 | But if it goes out of control again , there is a one-in-three chance it will happen while beyond the reach of ground control . |
| 16 | The idea of the bond is both to demonstrate the financial security of the firm and to provide funds to rescue its clients if it goes out of business . |
| 17 | I mean the trouble is if you put the trumpet erm , if you put the trumpet too low , it 's it 's it does n't sound good and it goes out of tune , |
| 18 | Both Grouse Shoot and Shooting Gallery provide a single target which must be hit before it goes out of bounds . |
| 19 | Crucially , although the impedances between P' 1 , X' and P' 2 are extremely tiny when the bridge is balanced , as soon as it goes out of balance the large primary inductance of the detector transformer comes into play so that the balance condition is very critical and the bridge consequently very sensitive . |
| 20 | Gingerly , sweating , I curled my left hand behind my back and felt for the third arrow , and found it sticking out of my jersey though fairly loose in my hand . |
| 21 | But these devices allow it to remain out of water for only a short time . |
| 22 | Even before I met him I 'd admired a North Shore picture of his which showed the Kam Highway as it meandered out of the hills and down into Haleiwa , flanked by pineapple plantations and clumps of trees , and in the distance the Pacific , rippling with big waves . |
| 23 | The question that should be asked at this point is not whether the West should intervene militarily , but what does it want out of such an exploit ? |
| 24 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 25 | Practice Richard Ashworth and ors v Berkeley-Walbrook Ltd ; CA ( Russell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 27 Sept 1989 As a general rule , where a counterclaim could properly be relied on as a set-off and where it arose out of the same subject matter as the claim , the counterclaiming defendant ought not to be required to give security for costs of that counterclaim unless there were exceptional circumstances . |
| 26 | It arose out of genuine social issues , not because there was a disproportionate number of prejudiced personalities living in the locality . |
| 27 | It arose out of a strike in July 1964 by ACTT television technicians claiming higher wages ( and an improvement in working conditions ) and it involved all the independent television companies , which included three for whom my firm acted . |
| 28 | It arose out of an action for professional negligence against a firm of accountants , but the person bringing the action went bankrupt . |
| 29 | It arose out of the publication in the USA of Spycatcher , in which the author , Peter Wright , claimed that MI5 had sometimes acted unlawfully . |
| 30 | It arose out of business questions . |