Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bursting free from the encircling wall in the late seventeen hundreds , the city expanded first rapidly to the north in the extensive New Town of broad streets and remarkable buildings , before developing steadily , through another two centuries until now it covers the slope between sea and hills . |
| 2 | Cleaning may consist of a quick dust or ‘ whip round ’ for the harassed housewife , and to some eyes at least it will still look as though the house has been cleaned — hence the expression ‘ eye service ’ ( 'I 've just given the house eye service today' ) . |
| 3 | Men huddle round the car , removing what look like dark , limp sacks of potatoes from within it . |
| 4 | Just er it might of been of course I had plants through there it might have been |
| 5 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 6 | And the only thing is that finally after three months of waiting for the received all their medals and things for so it can go ahead . |
| 7 | I m I must confess I 'm one of these simple folk who thought that once we got the nineteen ninety one census figures through then it would it would all start into place . |
| 8 | Such groups consist of closely related individuals , and in evolutionary terms at least it is worth one of them dying to help the others , in order that a predator may learn not to touch them again . |
| 9 | place co-ordinate : to account for sentences like here it is |
| 10 | By the standards of today it was not much of a school . |
| 11 | As I said to you , for some of the men in here it 's all they understand . ’ |
| 12 | They were helped on their way with a fair tide , and a beam reach by a south-westerly of only marginally less velocity than on Saturday , although a lumpy sea gave some problems , and with only two or three short turns to windward it was again a benefit race for the top end of the fleet . |