Example sentences of "[prep] it [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Jack Nicklaus put it , ‘ I never hit a shot , even in practice , without having a very sharp in-focus picture of it my head . ’ |
| 2 | well my nan pays a third , no , a third of it my dad pays a third and my mum pays a third |
| 3 | From the sound of it my father could n't have spoken to him for very long , or he would have recognised his son 's voice . |
| 4 | But by the sound of it your brothers are a hale and hearty pair . |
| 5 | The father is downstairs and by the sound of it your husband , and my dear father , has just killed him . ’ |
| 6 | Cromwell 's men were searching a Cavalier household ; the man had hidden in a window-seat and on top of it his wife had placed their sleeping child . |
| 7 | On the face of it his life centred around business of one sort or another , his own and the council 's . |
| 8 | Alexei found himself recalling events from his childhood — the dimly understood shifts of influence from one family to another , his mother the niece of the Emperor , his father a commoner and always absent on the Imperial service — and almost before he was aware of it his hand had risen to the gold caste mark on his cheek . |
| 9 | So Schuler accepted it , knowing that by the end of it his prospects of regaining an All Black place might have disappeared . |
| 10 | During the war his home had been far away from bombs and at the end of it his father had come safely back . |
| 11 | As Nicholson headed towards it his shoes beat out a tattoo on the polished floor . |
| 12 | Then Señor Louis goin' run this leetle country like it his hacienda . |
| 13 | So again Warwickshire desperately had to win was slipping away , and with it their chances of the championship . |
| 14 | Reverting to the earlier argument , the morality of their work is suspect , and with it their charisma . |
| 15 | Immigrants from the New Commonwealth arrived at just the time that Britain lost an empire and with it her position in the world . |
| 16 | Her own particular demon gone but with it her freedom . |
| 17 | She poured out her scorn , and with it her jealousy and frustrated rage . |
| 18 | Each day the sun rose later and weaker and with it her strength too seemed to ebb . |
| 19 | Night had fallen and with it his defences . |
| 20 | Grant had time only to register the knowledge that he had lost the unequal contest , and with it his life , before the final hiraken knuckle-blow landed , breaking his nose and cheekbones , and smashing him into bloody oblivion . |
| 21 | Peter lost all he 'd made , and with it his chance to help his parents and his younger brother and sister , Toby and Laura . |
| 22 | We are made to share his view , and with it his plans and hopes to gain at the expense of good . |
| 23 | To that extent — until war eventually came in 1513 , and with it his death — James IV undoubtedly had the best of both worlds , the pleasure but not the pain and the expense . |
| 24 | Was Leonard aware , even at such a tender age , of the sense of grief his father had , not only in his life being shortened but with it his usefulness ? |
| 25 | The problem is , they 've got this parametric EQ and when I first toured with it my guitar roadie could n't figure what was wrong , because it was cutting out and crackling . |
| 26 | Here we were on swings in small parks , our hair that had been blonded by the African sun now turning dark , as if another person was emerging , slowly , day by day , and with it our accents changed too , so that we spoke in multiple mangled voices as we moved endlessly , six times , seven times , eight , nine times through different versions of Englishness . |
| 27 | It is of nature created and hallowed by a personal God who pours into it his creativity and love . |
| 28 | This takes me into my second point : Advent means that through Christ this world has a destiny because God has poured into it his hope . |
| 29 | She was n't smartly dressed as he had imagined : a slack grey coat reached halfway down her calves , her hat was in plain brown felt and from under it her hair hung loose . |
| 30 | Wearing the collar , Aunt Margaret had to carry her head high and haughty as the Queen of Assyria , but above it her eyes were anxious and sad and not proud at all . |