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

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31 ‘ I never thought of it that way , ’ he said .
32 ‘ I never thought of it that way . ’
33 So it 's sometime useful to think of it that way round , Newton 's third law , rather than force is mass times acceleration , you 're interested in the effect , now what did we get for this , what sort of acceleration do we get .
34 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 .
35 I never thought of it that way .
36 " Well , " the McLaren girl said , " I guess the whole thing was kind of a bother , but I had n't thought of it that way .
37 As X becomes a very very very small number , or a large negative number , if you like to think of it that way , where X is very large .
38 That was the answer think of it that way .
39 Think of it that way .
40 Well I 've never thought of it that way .
41 Mr. Karsten submits that on the face of it that passage in the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. should be considered as obiter , but in any event he submits that it does not bear the meaning contended for by Mr. Wall .
42 Philip and she spent sixty pounds of it that afternoon on a secondhand gas boiler .
43 Radio , television and the evening newspaper carried reports of it that day and the morning newspapers carried them next day .
44 Without calling for one 's whole attention , it so persistently demands a small part of it that concentration on anything else is ruled out .
45 If I make a mess of it that woman is going to be so glad .
46 He arrived back at his parents ' home in Bures St Mary near Sudbury , Suffolk , yesterday where his first task was to wash off the grime of Patagonia , much of it volcanic dust .
47 This means reducing your fat intake to three quarters of it current level .
48 The Arts Council was thus the result of a political climate that favoured state intervention and support , with one of it principal exponents at the helm .
49 It 's not right they were out of it six months before then .
50 Some of it is amusing , some of it pretentious drivel .
51 The Queen was forced to strip him of it 13 years later .
52 Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’
53 And he construed from exchanges with others that though they might talk confidently about their childhood and adolescence , much of it was rumour and conjecture ; some of it pure fabrication .
54 But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 .
55 ‘ I made a terrible bosh of it last night . ’
56 I dreamt of it last night . ’
57 To have the thing scraped or vacuumed out of her womb , the very thought of it last night had sent her to the bathroom , heaving over the modern white lavatory .
58 Just for the hell of it last night I thought I ‘ d go through the scores so far and pick the best possible legal team .
59 I watched half of it last week , as soon as you told me off I I put it off .
60 To think of it another way , if you were asked to mend a broken chair you would not use every tool you had just for the sake of showing that you had them .
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