Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] it [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 2 | You needed to use imagination to see through it to the ground below . |
| 3 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 4 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 5 | In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons . |
| 6 | The party rejoined the coalition in 1921 in order to work against it from the inside . |
| 7 | Murray was summoned to appear before it in the spring of 1913 , but by then he was in South America acting for Lord Cowdray . |
| 8 | ‘ And so , ’ I continue , ‘ the suntan becomes fashionable and it 's no longer as necessary as it was — taking Robinson Crusoe by way of example — to hide from it under a parasol in order to conserve that fairness of skin threatened by the desert island climate . |
| 9 | It is at the level of explanation that the sexism of sociolinguistics is most blatantly on display , and I want to concentrate on it in the remainder of this section . |
| 10 | So if four of us were to work on it as a group , |
| 11 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 12 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 13 | I try any watch the production at some time during the week in order to be able to talk about it to the Press . |
| 14 | Well , this is an issue which is sort of under debate and it 's all part of the training thing , 'cause we are going to talk about it at the Training Committee tomorrow . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about it at the moment , Stephen , if you do n't mind . ’ |
| 16 | You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen . |
| 17 | My contact with David had fired me with an interest in Peru again , a desire to engage with it beyond the level of annoyance . |
| 18 | Once a decision is made it must be communicated in writing to the claimant , who then has three months in which to appeal against it to the SSAT . |
| 19 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 20 | Naturally , he tried to hush it up after , but your dad got to hear of it from the doctor and he did n't half go for Josh — you can imagine . |
| 21 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
| 22 | Now what I want you to do I want to just have a look at it now and I want you to play with it over the holiday on your own . |
| 23 | She tried lifting her skirt to fish under it for the pocket hanging over her petticoat . |
| 24 | Now , for the first time … they are asked to look upon it as a question of human nature , of equal interest to men and women , as a question of the heart , the soul , the affections , the whole moral being . |
| 25 | It flatters the British mind , and certainly the English mind , to look upon it as the envy of the world . |
| 26 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 27 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 28 | The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? " |
| 29 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
| 30 | Then try to look at it as an artist would look at it , really analysing it . |