Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had rather a dread of this post 's conveyance for it was only a spring cart , and I thought I felt myself being bumped , but as it was I enjoyed this nine miles in the post gig better than all the drives I had had . |
| 2 | It was politically unsound , and that was my old band 's argument against it ’ — Norman Cook |
| 3 | You can forget old wives ' tales about it clearing up ‘ when you get married ’ or ‘ growing out of it ’ . |
| 4 | In classical physics , if I measured each electron 's position as it was delivered they would all be found to be in the same place . |
| 5 | Is it in that child 's interest for it to go home or is it in the child 's interest er for the responsibility to lie with the local authority or the High Court ? |
| 6 | Chair , I 'd like to challenge standing orders on motion three O one , an example being in the part-time workers ' qualification into it was done by a recommendation of and we therefore request that it stays on the agenda . |
| 7 | ‘ We made a real dog 's breakfast of it . ’ |
| 8 | Central government 's responsibility for it was not at all clear . |
| 9 | An accompanying central government preoccupation about local government in this period was the fact that it was becoming an increasing spender ( not surprisingly , in the light of central government 's expectations of it in areas like education , personal social services and housing ) . |
| 10 | Another way in which Coleridge addresses the subject of creativity is to look at the natural world in the context of the human mind 's perception of it . |
| 11 | Hugh Gaitskell made the Tory Government 's case for it when he said in the House of Commons Defence debate : |
| 12 | I certainly do not intend to fight the Scottish National party 's battles for it . |
| 13 | I 'm going to make him a card with Happy Father 's Day on it and a star on it . |
| 14 | And it became er I think more people 's perception of it now is that it 's like a bloke bonking birds on stage , it 's nothing like that . |
| 15 | Some recent interpretations of Greek history , and of the Greek historians ' versions of it , have suggested that there was , in fact , a gap between such ideals and the actual practice and that we should not take their own statements too literally . |
| 16 | Cos it er the tax er there 's twelve month 's tax on it . |
| 17 | We also have a sort of partnership with other institutions in understanding better our stake in it and other people 's stake in it . |
| 18 | He ca n't help being rather touched by the young man 's enthusiasm about it all . |
| 19 | And I know this presents the county council with some problems I do n't know currently what the the local authorities ' view on it is . |
| 20 | It had both Egan 's fingerprints on it and those of Place , blurred but identifiable . |
| 21 | The farmer can persuade a ewe which has lost her own lamb to accept another by tying her dead lamb 's skin onto it . |
| 22 | The flatness is a shame , because this is a public service : you can glean from the programme an idea both of how irrational the law can be , and of how flimsy most people 's understanding of it is . |
| 23 | The figure halved a calabash , laying one half on the youth 's navel , emptying the sacrificed cockerel 's blood into it , before bidding the youth to drink from it . |