Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did not in fact happen , but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was an indication of It facing both ways , torn between a youth culture stumbling around politics and the embers of 1967 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | None of it brought any response from him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 10 | None of it made any sense . |
| 11 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 12 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mark the centre of it go all the way round with that . |
| 15 | Since the perestroika process began , the Soviet economy has followed a steady course downwards , and there seems no prospect at the moment of it reversing that process . |
| 16 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 17 | Although there was a flurry of Jacobite plotting and conspiracy in the period 1689 – 97 , none of it stood much chance of success . |
| 18 | Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now , much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes , and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway . |
| 19 | The Vienna settlement of 1814 – 15 , the foundation of international relations for two generations to come , received strikingly little parliamentary discussion : only one or two aspects of it aroused any real public interest . |
| 20 | And not a technical matter but a policy matter , I think that the probabilities of it doing that could be er increased by traffic calming measures on the A sixty one to make it take longer to go through Harrogate that way . |
| 21 | Mining coal can rarely compete on world markets and the use of it has such a damaging effect on our environment . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm a free man , and all that you hold dear , you rich men — and beggars too — none of it has any power over me . ’ |
| 23 | Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future . |
| 24 | Does the association of low pitch with authority and high pitch with lack of it have any reasonable basis , or is it simply a sexist prejudice through which everything that marks a speaker out as female becomes a cause for complaint and a proof of inferiority ? |
| 25 | It 's easy to be deceived into thinking none of it makes any sense but it does make sense : a strange , twisted , whimsical , surreal kind of sense . |
| 26 | The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time . |
| 27 | but whether we want at the end of it to have another water seminar , looking instead of extraction side but what the water companies are doing with our rivers it might not be a bad idea as part of er producing a considered view later on in the year but I do n't , I do n't think we can hurry this as there 's a lot of lessons to be learnt and I I do n't think we should do the work in the Fire and Public Protection Committee erm in getting our erm eyes taken off the dealing with the actual problem at the moment , we want to look , step , step back and say well what what was the cause of all that , but I do support erm proposal that we should have it listed as er |
| 28 | A rainforest receives at least 4,000mm of rain every year , 200mm of it falling each month for ten months . |
| 29 | She did n't even need to work out her notice , just go in any time she felt like it to collect any personal belongings . |
| 30 | and if you look in the blue box , bottom left to begin with it says this chapter looks at the way in which human beings treat animals . |