Example sentences of "[prep] it [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ZURICH — Switzerland was responding to Polish appeals for economic aid by sending five million Swiss francs ( £1.9m ) of food — 40 per cent of it wheat bought in Hungary — the Foreign Ministry said yesterday Reuter reports . |
| 2 | There is a lot of it hype , there is a lot of it window dressing , but by and large it has helped to provide a railway line , if you like , for them to work on and give special help and special aid to various industries that are relocating there . |
| 3 | cos your drum of it instructor told you |
| 4 | Arctic weather blasted through the region , leaving behind it snow drifts several feet deep and severe flooding — the worst for 20 years . |
| 5 | ‘ She looked at her step-mother but uttered not a single word ; she simply picked up our big drap-de-dames green shawl ( it 's a shawl we all use , a drap-de-dames one ) , and covered her head and face entirely with it ad lay down on the bed with her face to the wall , ad her little shoulders and her whole body were trembling . ' |
| 6 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 7 | now there 's another big thing that comes into it integration involves |
| 8 | Under it daimyo had to reside for one year out of every two in the capital , and leave their wives and families in permanent residence there . |
| 9 | In it reconnaissance leads on to strategy and related tactics ; there is management of logistics and intelligence , of time as well as of forces ; planning is constantly updated by observation and reporting ; field actions have their own integrity , but are kept in tune with the master plan . |
| 10 | ‘ The fascination with glass ’ , he has written , ‘ lies in it ability to change constantly with the variance of light , transmitted and reflected through the day and the seasons . ’ |
| 11 | In it Mead pointed out that every society designates some qualities and activities ‘ masculine ’ and others ‘ feminine ’ ; but the qualities and activities themselves may be different , and even opposite , from one culture to the next . |
| 12 | But this programme was ruined by the Chernobyl disaster ; and without it perestroika had no chance of success . |
| 13 | It is a low rising hill above the waters of a loch and on it centre powers that only eagles of peace and truth can fully feel |
| 14 | ‘ I distinctly asked for it bien done . ’ |
| 15 | Consumers self-image is an important clue to purchase behaviour , for around it cluster wants and needs that serve to defend and enhance the idealised perceptions that most individuals have about themselves . |