Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one knew how to go about it the Fall was reversible . |
| 2 | Now both of them were choking with their laughter as Mick ended , ‘ It got so bad that they used to wait for it every Sunday night and try to smother me with a pillow . |
| 3 | Would somebody with expertise here like to define for the rest of us what what , what differentiates somebody with a , a , an eating disorder , er from someone who 's er a chronic dieter or a chronic worrier or no not a chronic dieter at all , but someone who just thinks about it a lot ? |
| 4 | ‘ If one thinks about it the President makes an ideal stalking horse . |
| 5 | Once again , as with heroes such as Arthur , Charlemagne and Macbeth , an original core of genuine history gathered about it a coating of myth and legend which distorted the truth and added extensively to the apocryphal side of Rodrigo 's life . |
| 6 | He 'd deceived and manipulated her again and again , and she 'd fallen for it every time . |
| 7 | Well hardly out of the blue , they asked for it a week ago . |
| 8 | When Liam managed to get a word with her alone , she said the less fuss they made about it the sooner Nellie would get over it . |
| 9 | So we 'd have to go through it the next day anyway . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't have nightmares but I do think about it a lot . |
| 11 | Why do fall for it every time I 'm here ? |
| 12 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 13 | I think that 's a load of shit , half of his stuff , I mean they 're , they 're good reproductions , tin of Heinz Bake Beans but any monkey can fucking do that charge fifty grand for it or whatever they charged for it The ones I 've always liked is erm , I du n no if you 've ever seen any , Ed , Edward Lanzear used to paint a lot of er Queen Victoria used to do er animal paintings . |
| 14 | English Language , Literature , and History in the colleges was both similar to and different from these other modern disciplines ; similar in that , like them , it sought to create for itself a solid and autonomous identity ; different ( especially from the early decades of this century ) in that its predominantly classically-trained and often clerical academic proponents increasingly claimed for it a status well beyond that of any mere " discipline " or " knowledge subject " . |
| 15 | Then the more we got to know about it the more I had to laugh . |
| 16 | Zimbabwe 's elevation has about it a pronounced aroma of political engineering . |
| 17 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 18 | Like the Three Women , Bread and Fruit Dish is a work of extraordinary gravitas ; and it has about it a physicality and a presence seldom associated with ordinary still life . |
| 19 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 20 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 21 | My bedroom , for instance , had a ghost that used to come through it every night — it was n't a visible ghost but it was audible — and I used to see the door open at the other end of the room when I was in bed and then would hear this ‘ clunk clunk ’ … . |
| 22 | Where the Ministry of Defence has occupied land for generations or even for centuries , will my hon. Friend ensure that in disposing of it the Ministry will work as closely as possible with local authorities to ensure that it is developed consistently in accordance with the wishes of local people ? |
| 23 | Certainly get looks like it the sun 's going in . |
| 24 | If you look at a department like the Director and Engineers department , every letter in fact has underneath it the City Engineer , even if its signed by somebody else . |
| 25 | It has behind it a powerful cluster of motivating forces , accompanied by a theory of motivation which , however inadequate , works sufficiently to keep the system going . |
| 26 | He himself thinks of matter after the analogy , if not actually of the timber which is the concrete meaning of Greek hulè and Latin materia , at any rate of the ‘ materials ’ utilized in making an artefact ; and the usage of ‘ matter ’ has behind it a larger model , of a universe created by God for a purpose , from which the transparently metaphorical ‘ laws of nature ’ also derive . |
| 27 | It has behind it an ideal ; it aims primarily at getting working men and women of this country abroad in order that the scales shall fall from their eyes through real comradeship with those who do the hard work in other countries . |
| 28 | When life gets more interesting one is more responsive , more aware of one 's surroundings and what one is doing ; his answer , inarticulate as it may be , has behind it the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 29 | In very few cases is homework a freely chosen option and the more women are trapped into it the more likely is the erosion of services , nursery centres and transport , to trap them into it . |
| 30 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |