Example sentences of "[prep] it [det] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out it all rushed in a torrent , the whole story so far . |
| 2 | ‘ The strain of it all brought on a heart attack . |
| 3 | The futility of it all fills the room . |
| 4 | But remember , the more people who know , the more chance there is of it all getting out . |
| 5 | The erotic side of it all developed , of course , rapidly and by itself , gathering more and more momentum , like a stone rolling down a hill . |
| 6 | He was endowed , alas , with a fragile nervous system , so that the strain of it all caused a build-up of neurosis that triggered one heart attack to end his playing career and another dozen years later that ended his life . |
| 7 | One of the ‘ street toughs ’ , actually a DEA man , later wondered what the point of it all had been . |
| 8 | The clarity of design , the hope it contains , and the naivety of it all proves a welcome contrast to the rest of the exhibits . |
| 9 | If they switch off and the closed-circuit figures drop , the present heady economics of it all begin to crumble . |
| 10 | Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain . |
| 11 | Today , though , was not a suitable time to raise the subject of it all coming to an end . |
| 12 | Statistics show the younger a wife is when she marries , the more likely the chance of it all ending in the divorce courts . |
| 13 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 14 | Vologsky slammed his fist down upon the table as the injustice of it all descended upon him again . |
| 15 | To the south-east the morning sun was tinting the misted tops of the Macgillycuddy Reeks , and the beauty of it all reminded her again of her father 's remarks to her about Ireland and Corcaguiney on that evening when he broke the news of her betrothal . |
| 16 | Hence we form a naïve idea of it that does not correspond to reality at all ( 111 ) , based perhaps — I am now going beyond what Wittgenstein says — on some superficial resemblance between the grammar of ‘ I thought … ’ and ‘ I felt … ’ ( cf. 7 ) . |
| 17 | On the face of it this seems like a good idea . |
| 18 | On the face of it this seems to be a good idea : one frequently voiced criticism of comprehensive education is that all pupils have been forced to follow a grammar-school curriculum . |
| 19 | But with Son being here , talking about it once in a while when she gets a bit down , and do n't we all — well , I feel like it all happened last week , and what 's more as if I was in the middle of it . |
| 20 | Heard explores jazzy grooves , gets funky , sings agonised ballads , gets former Fingers Inc man Robert Owens to sing an agonised ballad and even rediscovers jazz-funk , but beneath it all throbs the foundation heartbeat of House . |
| 21 | Beneath it all lay Khrushchev 's hostility to the ‘ cult of personality ’ , declared at the twentieth Congress and afterwards at the very time that Mao 's personality cult was endowing him with almost divine status . |
| 22 | They 're doing a , I 've got a piece of paper somewhere with it all written on , I 'll show you , they 're doing a piece of research with a company that does dictionaries and a university , to put together a load of modern usage . |
| 23 | The water level drops and then , woosh , up it all comes , first rising like a column — at this stage it looks like a vaguely blue shaggy ink cap toadstool — then blasting itself apart in a flourish of steam . |
| 24 | Above it all rises the Madonnina , glinting in the sun . |
| 25 | Instead , like the powerful and determined man he was , Tyler Blacklock had risen above it all to become a formidable but respected businessman . |
| 26 | You 'll be displeased to know that you ca n't even avoid the tag if you try to get away from it all to cheer yourself up . |
| 27 | Mm yeah oh well if you find , you know , there 's anything you like about it or anything interesting in it that does help because it , you know , it certainly makes it a lot easier to learn things , take information in , revise things erm whatever . |
| 28 | Now , erm , the situation there was that my vicar came to see me and , erm , what happened was that we 've got three churches well luckily , one of them only has about twelve in it another has eighty and another sixty and he said well what did he do about Rushdie ? |
| 29 | And I copied it over It all compiled first time . |
| 30 | I have also had three two-hour sessions at the job agency which has the training facility , and , having taken down some scribbled notes and typed them up have gone back over it all to improve my notes , so that I can continue re-reading them till I improve my knowledge . |