Example sentences of "[noun] [unc] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er so you see on the wedding er card it had on er , Mr and Mrs Shaw request the pleasure of Mrs Abbott at their daughter 's wedding . |
| 2 | So very early in a horse 's life it establishes eating habits , and the horse may be very reluctant to change these habits when it is mature . |
| 3 | So every time a bit is put in the horse 's mouth it can trigger the fear of being hurt . |
| 4 | The target may do nothing until the beginning of the following magic phase , regardless of which side 's turn it is next . |
| 5 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 6 | Ken talked a lot about suicide , but in Orton 's company it had to have sexual connotations , as though he were constantly — and whatever the subject of his conversations — having to keep up with the Joneses , in this case Orton and his assorted friends if not specifically Orton and Halliwell . |
| 7 | As this act was not independent of the defendant 's negligence it did not break the chain of causation and the defendants were liable for the sailor 's death . |
| 8 | ‘ Captain Meredith 's nigger it 'll be , and I 'll thankee to get back to th'work , Sally Dade , — said Salt . |
| 9 | At Clogau St. David 's mine it occurs in small , rich , steeply-dipping shoots associated with pyrite and pyrrhotite together with galena and bismuth tellurides . |
| 10 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |
| 11 | As he peered through his mind 's eye it seemed rather that the deepest water changed into a different type of material which sank down and down forever , tossed by its own fierce storms , swayed by its own currents that were swifter than any ocean 's — until far off elsewhere there surfaced from this immaterium yet other seas of life , which were other worlds . |
| 12 | Today we use the word ‘ meditation ’ quite differently : in Hilton 's time it meant study rather than a purely contemplative exercise . |
| 13 | In the survey of secondary schools by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate it was found that schools resorted to short- or longer-term exclusion of pupils ‘ only when absolutely necessary and then with reluctance ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ Since old Josh 's time it 's been used as a holiday retreat by various Proberts down the years , ’ he added , ‘ with some of the land let out for summer grazing to mainland farmers . ’ |
| 15 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 16 | So then his Scott 's mum and Noel 's mum met in town and they were just talking and Scott 's mum it 's dis , God it 's disgusting is n't it that lad given all them little lads love bites ! |
| 17 | Lowthorpe is mentioned four times in the Domesday Book , where it is spelt Logetorp , and in King Edward the Confessor 's time it was valued at the princely sum of eight shillings . |
| 18 | Midsummer 's Day it was . |
| 19 | While it lasted , the Auxiliary did good work , but after the President 's death it declined and eventually was wound up during the Glasgow Congress in 1920 . |
| 20 | In the President 's citation it stated that the Jetstream 41 was the first aircraft to be designed and manufactured in Scotland for several decades and is testimony to the enterprise and teamwork of the company 's workforce . |
| 21 | From the sudden change in Rune Christensen 's demeanour it seemed she might have cause to be optimistic . |
| 22 | In relation to the album 's content it is , she explains ‘ half old traditional tunes , combined with other ones which are newly composed . |
| 23 | Even under Edward 's guidance it proved difficult to feel my way into the texts he gave me to read . |
| 24 | By Edward 's reign it was usual for the monarch to extract from a newly elected bishop or abbot a pension of about 3 or 5 marks for a royal servant until such time as the prelate could promote him to a suitable living . |
| 25 | In Balbinder 's case it was not simply that he was a slow learner . |
| 26 | If you go down Citizen 's Advice it 's all done , on a big , on a big board down there what you 're entitled |
| 27 | In Keynes 's time it was mainly wealthy or high-income earning individuals who operated speculative balances , but in the modern economy this role has been assumed more by institutions which manage contractual savings held in pension funds , life assurance contracts , and the like . |
| 28 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 29 | This was successful and at the time of Down 's death it could accommodate 200 patients . |
| 30 | When the TUC expelled the electricians ' union it was Jordan who determinedly merged his engineering union with theirs , to the fury of the hard left . |