Example sentences of "[prep] it [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded . |
| 3 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 4 | It was significant because during the course of it two things became very plain to Anna . |
| 5 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I still feel the consequences of it one way or another . |
| 7 | He repeatedly told himself he 'd beat the stiffness out of it one day . |
| 8 | The deeply integrated place of the artefact in constituting culture and human relations has made discussion of it one of the most difficult of all areas to include in abstract academic discourse . |
| 9 | Maybe I 'll see the funny side of it one day . |
| 10 | Some of them have actually turned round and said keep it up Mr , keep it up Mr , we will see the end of it one day . |
| 11 | get in the top of it one day |
| 12 | The whole idea has always been abhorrent to us , and we were rid of it 14 years ago in 1977 , when we voted to secede from South Africa and re-assist control over our own affairs . |
| 13 | It 's not right they were out of it six months before then . |
| 14 | The Queen was forced to strip him of it 13 years later . |
| 15 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 16 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |
| 17 | Initially , in her sworn depositions , Hildenbrand apparently said that the delay in payment to the gallery was due to an unnamed Japanese intermediary ; Feigen states that she then ‘ admitted in sworn testimony that she had perjured herself , which is a felony , and that the entity owned by Lanzone and herself had in fact received the money $600,000 of it seven months earlier , and then $200,000 and that the money had been spent on Lanzone 's home mortgage and restaurant expenses ’ . |
| 18 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 19 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 20 | Over the marble mantelpiece was a huge oval gold mirror , with an eagle adorning it , and beneath it two gilt and delicate sprays of candle brackets . |
| 21 | Beyond the door was a slight recess blocked by a thick metal iron grille , and behind it four pairs of cruel red eyes gleamed in the darkness . |
| 22 | ‘ The car leaves behind it two long trails of squashy corpses , the tyres and wheels become encrusted with them , while the running boards are soon black with those that still live and crawl . ’ |
| 23 | Behind it two men in singlets were serving drinks . |
| 24 | Behind it one of those screens of elms , all dead even by then of Dutch elm disease . |
| 25 | It had scooped up armfuls of holiday bookings following the the collapse of Harry Goodman 's ILG group , which had taken with it one of Airtours ' biggest rivals , Intasun . |
| 26 | The short , nine-day voyage was accompanied by beautiful weather , and brought with it one of Gould 's most elusive and sought-after species of petrel , one that had tantalised him for weeks aboard the Parsee , although the occasion was , as Gould liked to emphasise , as much a result of his own ingenuity as it was of chance or convenience : |
| 27 | has associated with it one or more DCs which refer to the modules to be changed and which have been agreed by all the other module managers likely to be affected . |
| 28 | His maximum brought with it one of the fastest race times ever seen in Swindon . |
| 29 | hey , hold on go steady with it one |
| 30 | Here again we are assisted by Strype : ‘ The entrails and bowels were honourably buried in the [ St George 's , Windsor ] chapel ’ , for it was not usual for the viscera chest to take any part in the state obsequies ; the coffin was reunited with it nineteen days later . |