Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The card below it shows three ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ roses , a few alchemilla flowers and the leaves and tendrils of some old man 's beard . |
| 2 | This did not in fact happen , but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap . |
| 3 | Although Shaker has become fashionable and ‘ Shaker style ’ furniture is appearing all over the place , very little of it bears much relation to the real thing . |
| 4 | Beginning with a modest advance of £6,000 to James I in 1613 , his formal loans culminated in his truly massive advances of the war years 1624–9 , amounting to more than £127,000 , much of it to finance English and foreign military operations ; not to mention the £55,000 which he and the Russia Company magnate Sir Ralph Freeman advanced in 1624 . |
| 5 | This is a fairly obvious gloss of Maltz and Borker 's discussion of Goodwin 's findings on directives , but the Glamour presentation of it does two things the linguists do not do , or at least not to anything like the same extent . |
| 6 | Understand what it is we are trying to achieve by cutting off a lot of top growth , and the where , when and how of it lose much of the mystery . |
| 7 | However , the non-markers again included the three informants who read very little science fiction , and the fact that the phrase occurs towards the end of the passage suggests that readers have become accustomed to the science fictional discourse model to the extent that elements of it display diminishing values of foregrounding . |
| 8 | And I 'd come out of it looking sharper than a Connecticut Yankee at a 2 Live Crew concert . |
| 9 | Despite the majority in favour of merit , SCOTVEC 's implementation of it attracted critical comment . |
| 10 | It was an indication of It facing both ways , torn between a youth culture stumbling around politics and the embers of 1967 . |
| 11 | Lionfish have venom glands at the base of the dorsal fine spines and the sting can prove very serious and excruciatingly painful although there is no record of it causing any human fatalities |
| 12 | So , if you would be so kind as to get into a position where you can see what I 'm doing without being too close it means that if we do splash any acid by accident er the likelihood of it causing any problems to anyone are minimal . |
| 13 | None of it brought any response from him . |
| 14 | The worst of it got better . |
| 15 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 16 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 17 | And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going . |
| 18 | Much of it requires mental effort to work through , effort which Taylor should have put in before writing off Darwinian explanations as ‘ pathetic ’ or ‘ ludicrous . |
| 19 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 20 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 21 | Moddy Dhu was the PHANTOM dog of the Isle of Man , and the sight of it caused immediate death . |
| 22 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 23 | The Act defined the area for which bye-laws could be made , that is , all of the Moray Firth , although much of it comprised international waters . |
| 24 | Officially 20 acres of arable land was regarded as standard , but with some of it left fallow each year , many people must have got by with much less in practice , for in East Anglia , c . |
| 25 | In the relatively affluent days of the 70s and early 80s leisure centres , squash courts and swimming pools sprang up all over the place , much of it made available through international funds . |
| 26 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 27 | None of it made any sense . |
| 28 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 29 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 30 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |