Example sentences of "[prep] it the [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporal Blagg had spent his childhood — those parts of it the local authority had n't been able to control — in the courts , alleyways and concrete ‘ gardens ’ of Rotherhithe 's blocks of flats . |
| 2 | On the face of it the thermal noise appears to dominate . |
| 3 | Bourgeois democracy was seen as a facade , concealing the fact that behind it the capitalist class continued to rule and dominate bourgeois society . |
| 4 | But it carries with it the usual problem associated with rapid and anonymous observations , viz. lack of information on the social identity of the speaker . |
| 5 | Some people worry that this argument , along with cheating by Iraq , North Korea and others , could fatally undermine the NPT , and with it the global effort to halt the spread of nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | When grammar teaching fell into decline much of value was lost : a certain analytic competence , and with it the valuable ability to talk and write explicitly about linguistic patterns , relations and organisation . |
| 7 | The original metre is lost , of course , and with it the lovely lilting pauses at mid-line in the hexameter , and the " rest " at the end of the trimeter ; but still the English quatrain scheme answers generally ( there is one exception ) to the patterning of the Horatian strophe into distich and answering distich . |
| 8 | The second stage is a kind of broadside display ; it is called the ‘ parallel walk ’ , and in it the two males walk back and forth along side each other . |
| 9 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |
| 10 | We believe that the right way to deal with that offence is to build on the offence under the Theft Act 1968 — the taking and driving away — and add to it the aggravated offence covered in clause 1 . |
| 11 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 12 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 13 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
| 14 | In spite of all the centuries which he had to learn about it the traditional ship-wright seemed to be unable to understand about shear . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry about the turning a blind eye I er I er Mr I really do feel that if you are passionate about it the one way to get rid of this debate is to vote for my motion . |
| 16 | All around it the bloodstained undergrowth lay broken and flattened by its struggles , and as soon as it saw him , the animal lowered its needle-sharp horns that had grown in its prime to a length of nearly three feet . |