Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of it brought any response from him . |
| 2 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 3 | Although there was a flurry of Jacobite plotting and conspiracy in the period 1689 – 97 , none of it stood much chance of success . |
| 4 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 5 | The tap could be regulated so that the water flowing from it filled another tank in exactly twenty-four hours , while raising a float inside the tank a fixed distance . |
| 6 | The predominant over-view in this Department was that Television held a special kind of mystique ; that writing and producing drama for it demanded special levels of skill which were to be somewhere between the scopes of the Theatre and the Cinema . |
| 7 | Just thinking about it aroused such passion in him it was scary : $75 million from the bank , $25 million from Antonio , and he , Stephen Reece-Carlton , could develop his own small island in the Bahamas , with a marina , golf course and casino . |