Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Miranda is lying on her tummy for she has the bath to herself , and she 's pretending she 's swimming , thinking of it getting dark and Manjiku rising , rising from the deep , tracking her . |
2 | Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now , much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes , and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway . |
3 | The sky above it burned orange and flame . |
4 | Huy held on to the thin throat until the face above it turned blue and tears appeared . |
5 | It was n't simply that he seemed incapable of telling the truth : he could n't begin to express any thought without it sounding false or grotesque . |