Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
2 | They 've got this little thing in their head if it 's not got blood in it no red blood they can eat it . |
3 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
4 | In course of it a young woman came up to her . |
5 | And was found dead at the base of it the next morning ? ’ |
6 | In the second issue of It the front page , and most of the second , had been dominated by excerpts from Pound 's war-time broadcasts from fascist Italy to the allies . |
7 | Yeah they went to work in it the next day . |
8 | special name for it the square root . |
9 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
10 | Having found a food-source in the evening , they will fly straight back to it the following morning , still guiding themselves by the sun even though it is now in the east and not the west . |
11 | as much as anything , but it 's only cos you 're writing a letter , and you say oh hello you writing a letter to mum , he says no I killed her to come here , you do n't put your foot in it a big way , but after a while because you know nobody there is nice it really makes a lot of difference people |
12 | There was only one bathroom in the wing , the bath in it a classic example of early plumbing furniture . |
13 | From a canoe the view was even more restricted : the looming hinterland was there , but was the beach below it the right landfall ? |
14 | watched a documentary on it the other night and he said even by kicking someone now , if you do n't have n't , is n't an accident it 's like kissing someone you |
15 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
16 | At the back was a long garden , at the end of it a little orchard , some six or seven overgrown apple and pear trees . |
17 | When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same . |
18 | Getting through the day , with her bed at the end of it the only goal , absorbed all her energies . |
19 | First , where the rehearing was by the same body or some more complete form of it the general rule was that defects at the original hearing could be cured . |
20 | I phoned your lot from it the other night . |
21 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
22 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
23 | And there 's the question of the yellow muslin dress — not on the face of it a central matter but … but again there is this sense of one 's fate having been manipulated by another . |
24 | The infinite possibilities of Masai life , on the face of it a simple desire to wander the earth following the cattle , have been denied . |
25 | On the face of it the latter view certainly seems the more rational , since the two states in question appear to contain elements that are inherently irreconcilable . |
26 | On the face of it the two seats should split evenly between the two big parties — North east to the Conservatives and South West to Labour . |
27 | ‘ Yes , the old man had a wry sense of humour though on the face of it the other provisions in his will are probably more important . |
28 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
29 | On the face of it the thermal noise appears to dominate . |
30 | There is a double set of front pockets on each side — first a zipped pocket and in front of it an open patch pocket , and both are excellent , deep pockets . |