Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men were to talk of it for many years to come . |
| 2 | At first Daedalus sought a lubricating oil freezing at about 0°C , with some idea of boiling tons of it in vast kettles set up near ski slopes . |
| 3 | Presumably the loch — lochan , rather , for it is not large — is fed by springs eternally replenished by the rain , for nothing flows into it except small burns seeping through rush and bog myrtle , which spread after storm into sodden quagmires of moss . |
| 4 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 5 | Alexander also did much to augment the common fund for resident canons at Lichfield , reserving pensions to it from several churches appropriated to monastic houses , securing the endowment of Lichfield 's sacristy and of chaplains celebrating masses to the Virgin , and continuing the rebuilding of Lichfield Cathedral begun by his predecessors . |
| 6 | One immediate difficulty is that the weight attached to it by different historians has varied enormously . |