Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Tran Van Hieu and his wife stared after it aghast , and the boys , halting on the threshold , stopped shouting and fell silent .
2 He leaned into it and the fielder at midwicket could only turn and jog after it all the way to the boundary .
3 The user has the option of selecting the number of pixels gap that the anchor points will jump across rather than fitting round but , apart from that , the Macintosh looks after it all .
4 But , after it all , she 's gon na be the one that 's going to need the erm the strength .
5 Your home will not suffer for a couple of weeks without anyone to look after it any more than when you go on holiday .
6 Do n't worry , Aurora — I wo n't be going after it any more . ’
7 Out it all rushed in a torrent , the whole story so far .
8 For some reason he had not been too worried out it last night , nor was he now .
9 The Orynthia lived on , despite it all — off to Honduras again in March , 1840 , where this time it was the cook who ended up in prison : William Rhodes took her out to Fernando Po , Ascension and India in 1841 , and William Cox was master again on a voyage to the Cape and Burma in 1843 , in which year he sold his half-share to Henry Johnson , a City merchant .
10 Despite it all , Graham grins mischievously and wreaks the normal kind of two-year-old havoc at the family 's home in Huddersfield , West Yorkshire .
11 Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree .
12 And still , despite it all , despite this living , fleshly rebuttal , he believed in the world 's ability to progress , in man 's ascent , in the defeat of superstition .
13 And yet , despite it all , I felt peace stealing into my soul .
14 Despite it all , he respected most of his colleagues .
15 The worst bit was to know that , despite it all , this horrible , devious monster actually turned her on !
16 ( 5 ) Temporal lobe and deep-seated regions below it em-power sexuality .
17 For those who wish to see , there are signs of a distinctive Major philosophy — some of it Thatcherite , some of it Labourish .
18 And erm not only er do I think that er she 'll probably be reasonably good with , with finals I 'm absolutely sure that her course reports from , you know , all the places where she 's been will be better than most of the other candidates , you know , because she brings home these , the these reports , you know , and she says it looks alright , you know , beginning of the course Nurse is lacking in this or has not got that or is not , you know , you think mm pretty the end of the course Nurse got the hang of , is very good , has done this , has done that , has supported this and you think mm pretty , well that 's lovely you know but she did n't have the experience during the whatever , she had been given the experience and the end of it brilliant
19 In his diary , he records Denis Healy 's description of it prior to his arrival .
20 Of course , the label or promotional literature as constituting a representation would have to induce the representee to enter the main contract of sale and he would have to know of it prior to the contract .
21 Oh I must remember to take that film out Is that the finish of it total ?
22 Now these limits were fatal , they believed that they could win the war through air power and they , they could n't and the ground casualties , although fairly slight , when you think of it fifty thousand people killed is not a bi a large amount in a major war , far from it erm although erm militarily not that significant , politically they were devastating because people in America started to ask the question , what is this war for ?
23 instead of it flowing
24 Some of it explicit , the rest hidden teasingly away — cyphers within cyphers — as if for his eyes alone .
25 Adorno 's preference for ‘ immanent method ’ — analysing and evaluating works in terms of the implications , the immanent tendencies , of their own mode of existence rather than approaching them comparatively — means that , having set his criteria for ‘ autonomous bourgeois music ’ from his interpretation of Beethoven , he exports those criteria to all music of the period and finds the rest of it wanting .
26 He had come out of it successful , respected and secretly wealthy .
27 A more serious problem arises where the applicant does not rate highly in terms of either expertise or ability , that is where the content of the degree is irrelevant , and the quality of it uninspiring .
28 Of course , like everyone else I 'm aware of the slimming adverts on television or in magazines , and the vast amount of advice ( a lot of it conflicting ) about how we should eat .
29 Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting .
30 Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting .
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