Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm tt whether that 's appropriate , you know , I 'm thinking of it as a first appointment just to get a general picture whereas you might be coming back to stir his memory for referrals by saying er , you know , er you mentioned here you 're a member of the squash club , do you remember I said I 'd be looking for introductions , maybe we 'll learn whether at the beginning of the second appointment you jog the memory there er you know in other words what I 'm do doing is keeping that in my mind , that you are remembering the squash club or whatever club it may be and use that later , although I did n't er elaborate on it at that , that er because I think you can go off at a tangent |
| 2 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 3 | I thought we might be out of it at the 4th hole in the last round . |
| 4 | He did quite well out of it during the last year . |
| 5 | McLure , the Spons-A-Tee Northern Amateur Masters Champion picked up valuable points towards retaining the title thanks to his win at Seaton Carew , but he looked out of it after a first round 79 , despite a birdie at the 18th . |
| 6 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 7 | Its garden front just manages to survive , intact on its eastern bays , sensitively refaced on the western , beneath the mound of Italianate jumble that Alfred Waterhouse piled on top of it in the 19th century . |
| 8 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 9 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 10 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 11 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 12 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 13 | Though Abraham receives the promise of the land of Canaan in Genesis 12 and , by God 's terms , takes possession of it in the next chapter , his descendants do not enter it as a people until the book of Joshua , and the business of conquest is not finished till David is secure on the throne half-way through the second Book of Samuel . |
| 14 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |
| 15 | What if I decide against it at the last minute ? |
| 16 | Given that ( i ) no other sources support this view ; ( ii ) the view is none the less generally reasonable ; ( iii ) evidence from Pomponius ( and perhaps also Julian ) seems to speak against it for the second century ; and ( iv ) a Justinianic interpolation seems unlikely , it seems most probable that the text represents the genuine view of Papinian . |
| 17 | Beneath it for the first time , they saw Titron , lying in the water some quarter of a mile away ; a huge , red-lit steel cliff with the black sea boiling pinky-white below . |
| 18 | ‘ We shall see how we deal with it on the next album , ’ Colin concludes . |
| 19 | In the tract Man 's Mortalitie , published in 1644 , the Leveller Richard Overton expressed his belief in mortalism , the heretical idea that the soul dies with the body at death to be reborn with it at the Second Coming . |
| 20 | ‘ If I can get drunk enough on this stuff I might be able to get away with it at the next repatriation board . ’ |
| 21 | The Allegro assai that follows this piece probably belongs with it as the second movement of a two movement sonata . |
| 22 | ‘ Could n't bear to part with it until the last minute . ’ |
| 23 | As hard as Marshall try to convey the message of versatility in this type of combo , I defy anyone who plugs into it for the first time not to go straight for the overdrive sounds : ‘ If it 's a Marshall then it 's going to rock , whether it wants to or not ! ’ |
| 24 | I went back to my office and shut myself into it for the last time . |
| 25 | Such women ( I include myself ) are probably a majority in the movement ( it was the sort of feeling that brought us into it in the first place , and anyway we have more time than mothers ) but not among women as a whole , most of whom appear to want to spend at least part of their lives having and raising children . |
| 26 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is why God had to be dragged into it in the first place . |
| 27 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 28 | This has been quite a long , drawn-out argument , and it is time to remind ourselves of how we got into it in the first place . |
| 29 | I soloed back up it in the last light , an orgy of vertical but easy bridging on huge holds . |
| 30 | ‘ Still , could n't you get away from it for the next week or so — till she 's gone back ? ’ |