Example sentences of "it some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , it some Constable that come too .
2 Was it some trick of the light ?
3 To another student , whose canvas is in danger of becoming congested , the art master suggests : ‘ It feels like sentences , and needs paragraphs : you 'll often find a picture has a rest — give it some space . ’
4 Was it some demon raised by a witch or warlock ?
5 They laugh Quechua at me while one removes the volume control and drops it some distance away .
6 Malcolm bounced one at Waqar , who spliced it some distance ; but midwicket was deep .
7 I 'm in fifth gear give it some welly !
8 Was it some sulphur thing or something ?
9 But if you were playing with a drummer who liked to give it some wallop , you 'd soon be lost in terms of volume , and that would piss you off a bit .
10 Servants throw a reticulation over the day , giving it some order .
11 I gave it some water cos I
12 The Moroccan women I spoke of earlier had a means of giving it some expression .
13 Driving through fog on the M25 , listening to yet another radio programme about the recession , it is difficult to imagine that there might be light at the end of the tunnel ; but spring is on its way , and I hope it will bring with it some sign of the long-promised upturn in the economy .
14 At a time when product design has lost its way , the gallery fails to provide a proper historical context that might give it some sense of direction .
15 To suggest that there is an interested and informed big brother , on whom one side could lean , to give it some advantage over the other , is only to prolong the agony .
16 Giving it some wellie !
17 Here Tramp Hold that while I give it some wellie .
18 Medirace needed a trading vehicle to give it some cashflow to stay in business .
19 Was n't it some illness which scuppered Sharpe .
20 Few managers admit that boredom is a threat to the job but equally few would deny that being part of a pilot scheme or of being part of a trial run of new development can carry with it some air of excitement .
21 Instantly recognisable by its overt blackcurranty flavour , but there 's noticeable tannin to firm it up and give it some structure .
22 As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " .
23 To summarise , the problem was to build a machine that could examine enough positions in three minutes to give it some protection against the clumsiness of its evaluation functions .
24 This put it some way below soccer hooliganism , which 75 per cent thought was wrong , and the use of soft drugs such as cannabis ( 60 per cent ) .
25 So we 've got to have that statement in and we 've got to differentiate it some way or from the
26 At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats .
27 I am , I am indeed , yes , yes , I I 've got to deal with it some way , somehow .
28 In recent years there has been an improvement in the standard and a number of top athletes have appeared at the event to earn it some respectability .
29 ‘ Ca n't we find it some electricity ? ’ said Gurder .
30 ‘ He wanted to find it some electricity ! ’
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