Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] it [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the look of it I would think so . ’ |
| 2 | From the sound of it he 'd blow you away without a second thought . |
| 3 | So you 'll get a big erm warehouse erm which may be typically erm computer controlled , retrieval systems , storage , inventory , stock control and all the rest of it which will employ a certain number of people . |
| 4 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 5 | No , I ca n't , it 'll , if you do n't take the head of it I ca n't eat it , I could n't even , I have prawn cocktail and you have a prawn , they put , they put a prawn on top whole , I could n't eat that , I could have peeled it , I looked at it and I thought about it , no , I can eat them when there done |
| 6 | She did n't say what it was or who published it or anything , but it made me you know think you know , so I wrote to her care of Writers something and erm asked her what 's the name of it I would like to read it because I had also written something about the er American Indians and erm er who 's the publisher or what 's it called , I 'd like to read it . |
| 7 | That 's right and put your paddle in that and you scull you had to come down every time and many a time people 'd learn that that paddle will come out , but once you got the knack of it you could do it one hand , cos you was cutting down all the time like that 's what it was . |
| 8 | And the size of it I ca n't see it being full up . |
| 9 | Cos I was , I said to the youngsters yesterday , I says I 'll tell you what we 'll do , we 'll just take your trainers tomorrow , or we 'll go down the town and put your competition paintings in and then we 'll come round and get the bus up home , and then I thought ah the hell with it we 'll go on down to York Street |
| 10 | And er then at the end of it we 'll talk it through . |
| 11 | His central idea , the ultimate negation of the will to live , … ( offers ) the only salvation possible " — and turning to his own artistic activities , present and prospective , he added , " I have in my head Tristan und Isolde … ; with the " black flag " that flutters at the end of it I shall shroud myself to die . " |
| 12 | You shell out £350-odd , book into a farmhouse for a week , and at the end of it you 'll have had 35 flights and be ready to go it alone . |
| 13 | At the end of it you should feel refreshed . |
| 14 | And you 'd listen to your tapes back and er w in the middle of it you 'd always hear yourself going shh |
| 15 | On the face of it one might say that an upstanding , law-abiding trade should have nothing to fear where this is concerned ; they should simply not deal in masterpieces without a provenance . |
| 16 | On the face of it they may appear to do little more than give effect to the government 's consistent promise to maximise the opportunities for parental choice in the education system . |
| 17 | Answer guide : On the face of it you may not need much financial information as you are not judged on profitability over which you have little control as selling prices and buying prices are fixed . |
| 18 | The amount of dis-information about the compatibility between PCs and Macintoshes is really quite staggering , on the face of it you would think that they were unable to speak at all . |