Example sentences of "[prep] it [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It holds a pool of the securities of each listed company and on dealings on The Exchange each seller transfers to SEPON , thus momentarily augmenting its pool and out of it SEPON transfers the appropriate amount of shares to each purchaser . |
| 2 | In the middle of it Nisodemus went slowly white with rage . |
| 3 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 4 | ‘ They broadcast the show and at the end of it Christopher Trace [ one of the presenters ] said something like , ‘ Whoever designed the Daleks really deserves a gold Blue Peter badge ’ , which is the badge they only award for very , very special achievements . |
| 5 | ZURICH — Switzerland was responding to Polish appeals for economic aid by sending five million Swiss francs ( £1.9m ) of food — 40 per cent of it wheat bought in Hungary — the Foreign Ministry said yesterday Reuter reports . |
| 6 | At the end of it Kersey said : ‘ That figures . |
| 7 | There is a lot of it hype , there is a lot of it window dressing , but by and large it has helped to provide a railway line , if you like , for them to work on and give special help and special aid to various industries that are relocating there . |
| 8 | Or some of it Ardakke has native shrub , she said , called phet in their own dialect . |
| 9 | On the other side of it Shamlou found himself alone . |
| 10 | Morse had not started the crossword yet ( ‘ Ichabod' this week ) , but just to the right of it Lewis noticed a brief item on a fatal accident at the Marston Ferry Road traffic lights : a young student who had been taking a crash course in EFL . |
| 11 | And , as we have seen , on the face of it things have moved on a little in the direction that the British would wish . |
| 12 | They talked sensibly , for full half an hour , but at the end of it Wilson felt neither clearer nor happier , only numb . |
| 13 | Rose wished that they could be married quickly but now that there was nothing in the way of it Moran grew cautious and evasive . |
| 14 | I 'm blatant and I 'm damn proud of it matey. makes a lot of bloody sense . |
| 15 | The work was carried out between 1698 and 1704 , and during the course of it Francis settled in the town , with which , as ‘ Smith of Warwick ’ , he is particularly associated . |
| 16 | . So making a great show of it Gwendoline sowed on the six blue buttons one night . |
| 17 | as if he was instantly aware of it Niall raised his head . |
| 18 | cos your drum of it instructor told you |
| 19 | Some of it Kraal told him ; other things he could see for himself . |
| 20 | If in order to get to the root of it Eliot consulted a Viennese expert , the result was not evidently a cure , because I believe he suffered from it all his life : but the consultation , if that was what it was , may have benefited him by disclosure — ‘ the luxury of an intimate disclosure to a stranger ’ . |
| 21 | look at the state of it Deana look |
| 22 | A tatami , a triple-woven rush mat , had been placed on the sand , and as he walked towards it Alexei saw that the slave had raked over his footprints as he had departed , leaving the surface smooth and even . |
| 23 | Arctic weather blasted through the region , leaving behind it snow drifts several feet deep and severe flooding — the worst for 20 years . |
| 24 | Authors Charles Ferguson and Charles Morris paint a dismal picture of the company 's record across-the-board since the 1970s and presage a painful decline leading to a disaster of enormous proportions that will drag down with it IBM stockholders , employees , suppliers , the US computer industry at large and the nation as a whole . |
| 25 | ‘ She looked at her step-mother but uttered not a single word ; she simply picked up our big drap-de-dames green shawl ( it 's a shawl we all use , a drap-de-dames one ) , and covered her head and face entirely with it ad lay down on the bed with her face to the wall , ad her little shoulders and her whole body were trembling . ' |
| 26 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 27 | As they turned into it Massingham realized that it was n't strange to him , he had been here before . |
| 28 | I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong . |
| 29 | now there 's another big thing that comes into it integration involves |
| 30 | Their skins were the colour of walnut husks , and under it muscles bulged like sacks of melons . |