Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He ca n't help being rather touched by the young man 's enthusiasm about it all .
2 No clue , that was , other than what her heart told her , and as Tom entered the room once more , his eyes coming straight to meet her own , her spirits lifted again and she felt a mysterious sense of rightness about it all .
3 I expect they will have to have some prayer about it all .
4 When the Peel Commission proposed partition in 1937 , Abdallah was virtually alone in the Arab world in his support for it contingent , however , on the incorporation of the Arab portion into his Amirate .
5 It occurred in the Foreign Office and the Foreign Office , and I personally take full responsibility for it this afternoon before the House .
6 Yeah I think he , I think he 's , I 've explained like everything , we 're just paying the money for it that is all
7 I think there should be as much coverage , but I think there should be a break between it all .
8 It would n't settle the shaky future of a family business painstakingly built up with love and commitment , it would n't alter the shock of Mortimer 's twisted values … but it would definitely take her mind off it all for a while .
9 Why talk about it any more ?
10 Okay so what I 'd like you to do now a little bit of revision which , which way shall we do it first of all no just talk about it both of you what you found easy and what you found hard .
11 It has been condemned from all sides ; there is virtually no advocate for it outside Government and there are precious few inside .
12 ‘ The English College , the Irish College — there 's a sort of cosiness about it all .
13 Yeah , we paid thirty eight pound off it last year .
14 Mr Fishbane is obsessed with sex and while I imagine he ca n't do a great deal about it any more , poor old boy , until he 's finished his breakfast he 's almost out of control if he spies an attractive girl . ’
15 It 's counter see you , the reason , the reason that this seems difficult to understand at first is we 're not used to thinking of it that way .
16 Just so she can change her perception of it all .
17 British Telecom plans to install about 100 000 km of fibre by the end of the decade , the great bulk of it multimode .
18 That means that , over the life of the project , some 100 million tonnes of rock must be dug , the great bulk of it waste material .
19 So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all .
20 I really do n't think I could tolerate the loss of it all . ’
21 My understanding of English was competent , but my command of it uncertain .
22 And then , when you think you have everything under control , when you 're certain you 're in complete command of it all your thoughts , your life , your world and your work what does Time do ?
23 Whether children will get a better education as a result of it all is by no means clear .
24 Unfortunately , the end result of it all was that by the '60s Hawaiian music was regarded with pretty much universal contempt .
25 However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had .
26 Unfortunately , there is n't space to illustrate it in this issue , but I will include a photograph of it next time .
27 The irony of it all was not lost on her .
28 The irony of it all !
29 The irony of it all is that Jim does not eat fish .
30 And the irony of it all was that Fernando had n't planned it that way .
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