Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 2 | Halt it for a few minutes and it would die altogether . |
| 3 | So have a look through your book have a very quick glance at erm if you can just at an acid alkali one , at one side of an equation co try not to read it cover it up write it down and leave it for a few minutes till you 've forgotten if you did accidentally see what was on the other side till you 've forgotten it . |
| 4 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
| 5 | I enjoyed it for a few weeks but then went to Stanley . ’ |
| 6 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 7 | However , she only keeps it for a few weeks before it is handed back to the new Lady Mayoress by the sheriff for the price of a kiss . |
| 8 | He designed and built it specially for his wife because she 'd always wanted to live by the river , but she only had time to enjoy it for a few months before she died . |
| 9 | In this case , leave it for a few months and try going again later . |
| 10 | I could let you have it for a few months until you get sorted out . ’ |
| 11 | when they 've got to do the road or something they want somebody to do it for the three weeks or |
| 12 | But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright . |
| 13 | Even , even though they may be er , the they may work as a result of different o of the same enzyme activity in some cases the target for that enzyme activity and the receptors that have put it into the specific cells that are targeted lead to really very different biological effects . |
| 14 | The board of Citymax Integrated Information Systems Ltd has recommended that its minority shareholders accept an offer from Credit Suisse Bank of Zurich to buy the 42% it does n't already own : Citymax believes that the bank will provide it with the necessary resources and credentials to grow its international business , by developing products and services for the global market ; the London-based company , which provides systems integration , facilities management and disaster recovery services to the financial sector , became an affiliate of Credit Suisse in 1990 . |
| 15 | It was such qualities , combined with its outstanding durability and scarcity , that led the Chinese to invest it with the symbolic qualities and applications that served to mark it out all the more emphatically as for them precious beyond all other substances . |
| 16 | Now yer know what a cowson that Frank is. 'E told 'er ter piss orf out of it in no uncertain terms an' Maudie told 'im she was gon na send 'er ole man round ter sort 'im out . |
| 17 | But facing up to conflicts and difficulties throughout marriage , be it in the early years or later , is the way of growth and strength . |
| 18 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 19 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 20 | Melts that had frozen within this subconscious lithosphere would enrich it in the same elements that are enriched in the crust , so it has not been possible to distinguish between these theories . |
| 21 | Mark Bright had two excellent chances to steal it in the closing stages but a draw was perhaps fair . |
| 22 | The trees had grown up beside it in the twenty-five years since the railway had closed , and the boy stopped every now and then to watch small birds hopping around the top branches . |
| 23 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 24 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 25 | This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them . |
| 26 | The Brydges family had owned the property since 1428 , when their ancestor Symon de Brugge bought it from the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard de Ley . |
| 27 | She could see the lights of it from the upper windows but never got any nearer . |
| 28 | They bartered their grain for the salt he 'd brought back from the border , where he traded with Tibetans who 'd scraped it from the arid salt-lakes and carried it south on yaks across the windswept dust-blown plateau lands . |
| 29 | If you are not completely satisfied , return it within the 15 days and it will be cancelled . |
| 30 | So good that , providing you take it to the right places and use it expertly , you should have no difficulty in doubling your pocketmoney every week . |