Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close under the grey buttresses of the wall one of the long stones was propped on its side , the grave beside it laid open to the frosty sky . |
| 2 | The lure of It proved irresistible . |
| 3 | When you chu push the light on it goes darker . |
| 4 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 5 | The card below it shows three ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ roses , a few alchemilla flowers and the leaves and tendrils of some old man 's beard . |
| 6 | Thanks to our twice weekly lessons , Olivia and I had now become confident enough in Hindi for the practice of it to become enjoyable rather than tiresome — if only because people were so surprised to hear any non-Indian speak even the most stumbling version of it . |
| 7 | So , if you would be so kind as to get into a position where you can see what I 'm doing without being too close it means that if we do splash any acid by accident er the likelihood of it causing any problems to anyone are minimal . |
| 8 | Twenty add three , put the brackets round it show that 's one number we have to work out what that is first . |
| 9 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 10 | Since the perestroika process began , the Soviet economy has followed a steady course downwards , and there seems no prospect at the moment of it reversing that process . |
| 11 | The plants outside it seem unaffected . |
| 12 | This underscores the need for it to provide more than musical training for its members . |
| 13 | The rest of it remained open until the early seventeenth century , when new enclosures led to major agrarian unrest in the shire , with Cotesbach at the centre of it . |
| 14 | I do n't know though it 's difficult to tell , I mean that one that 's lost a leaf but the rest of it looks alright . |
| 15 | The board considered that although the investigation ordered by the Chief Executive on 18 October 1990 is not yet complete the imposition of the restrictions referred to above is necessary in the interests of investors given the evidence before it highlighting serious deficiencies in Norwich Union 's internal systems for monitoring the performance of the Winchester Group and in particular ensuring that the Winchester Group complied with the Code of Conduct . |
| 16 | If the amount is under £50 , ask for the customer 's cheque card and check that the details on it match those on the cheque . |
| 17 | Mining coal can rarely compete on world markets and the use of it has such a damaging effect on our environment . ’ |
| 18 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 19 | The Dialogue is one of the pieces Purcell included in the Guildhall songbook : he seems to have compiled this manuscript for his young lady singing pupils , and several of the items in it show similar signs of revision and re-working . |
| 20 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 21 | The sky above it burned orange and flame . |
| 22 | Moddy Dhu was the PHANTOM dog of the Isle of Man , and the sight of it caused immediate death . |
| 23 | The Scheme and the debates about it highlight some of the long-standing tensions in English educational policy . |
| 24 | Mark the centre of it go all the way round with that . |
| 25 | all green , all green along there I wonder I was just thinking it 's got all the bits in it to make that other one go |
| 26 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 27 | but whether we want at the end of it to have another water seminar , looking instead of extraction side but what the water companies are doing with our rivers it might not be a bad idea as part of er producing a considered view later on in the year but I do n't , I do n't think we can hurry this as there 's a lot of lessons to be learnt and I I do n't think we should do the work in the Fire and Public Protection Committee erm in getting our erm eyes taken off the dealing with the actual problem at the moment , we want to look , step , step back and say well what what was the cause of all that , but I do support erm proposal that we should have it listed as er |
| 28 | And not a technical matter but a policy matter , I think that the probabilities of it doing that could be er increased by traffic calming measures on the A sixty one to make it take longer to go through Harrogate that way . |
| 29 | The only difference then was the weather for it turned cold and hard , the clouds massing thick above us as if the sky intended to fall and crush out all life on the face of the earth . |
| 30 | Huy held on to the thin throat until the face above it turned blue and tears appeared . |