Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The user has the option of selecting the number of pixels gap that the anchor points will jump across rather than fitting round but , apart from that , the Macintosh looks after it all . |
| 2 | Stane Street , from London to Chichester , has along it three settlements , Hardham , Alfoldean and Ewell . |
| 3 | The court has before it two appeals which raise the same point of law , that is to say , can a child who is born alive , but suffering from disabilities occasioned by negligence on the part of the proposed defendant at a time when the child was en ventre sa mère and unborn , maintain an action for damages for negligence against the defendant . |
| 4 | ‘ We had one customer who looked at the book , which has in it some really nasty colour pictures of legs and arms half eaten by sharks , ’ said Ainslie Thin . ’ |
| 5 | HERMS captures this associated data and adds to it spatial data generated in the CAD graphics data base . |
| 6 | People call it a self-regulatory system , but it 's governed by statute , the Treasury presides over it all and the members of the SIB are not appointed by those whom they supervise . |
| 7 | It is clear from this that for Rolle prayer was the most important exercise by which the reality of faith is realised , which is why he deals with it first after the section on the necessity for patience in adversity : Prayer is the means by which the transforming dynamic of the love of God is accessed in the innermost marrow ( " inhirliest mergh " ) of our hearts ( 7.118.28 ) and labour becomes light ( 11.123.30 ) . |
| 8 | But on the other hand a quarter of the total US TV audience tunes into it each week . |
| 9 | Johnson flits over it all in a sentence , and in his letters to Mrs Thrale he came forth only a little more , alluding only to the success of the visit , and to the debate as to whether the savage or the shopkeeper had the best life . |
| 10 | It is a very strong club but Couples , a naturally powerful striker , drives with it 270 yards or so , and is equally happy with it off the fairway . |
| 11 | it stays like it permanent , when I wake up in the morning |
| 12 | Some of the places we went to were absolute tips — paper peeling off the walls , damp patches on the ceilings — and video just glosses over it all . ’ |
| 13 | He fires at it three times to try and open it , but without success . |
| 14 | Nor does it make much sense for the book to be on offer soon afterwards through a paperback book club that screams at it potential customers , ‘ You write the rules ’ . |
| 15 | Although this bed is neatly made in the evenings , it is found disturbed again every morning , as if someone sleeps in it each night . |
| 16 | For that sweet odour which doth in it live . |
| 17 | BEA SPECIAL : The laughing Princess rises above it all |
| 18 | The procedure at the hearing is determined by the tribunal within the framework of the statutory rules which provide that the tribunal shall ‘ so far as appears to it appropriate seek to avoid formality ’ . |
| 19 | The court has a general power , if it appears to it appropriate to do so , to dismiss a petition or to stay proceedings on a petition on such terms as it thinks fit ( s 266(3) ) . |
| 20 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |
| 21 | Who goes on it next ? ’ |
| 22 | The inroad of foreign capital always means for it some loss of independence , and it has nothing to gain by agreement among competing Empires … |
| 23 | This displacement imparts to law a certain universality which gives to it symbolic efficacy in removing , or at least concealing , its arbitrariness . |
| 24 | — That night , a perfect night for Manjiku , when he goes prowling in his hunger , under a moon that 's big as the sun , Amadé slides her body into the sea and feels chilled with terror , though the water 's not really cold , the sun shines on it all day . |
| 25 | Prayer within a family takes on new focus and gives new prospects , when the love of God flows through it all . |
| 26 | Even in the morning you know just talks about it all the while and then we never get the work actually started or finished . |
| 27 | Leslie Howard revels in it all . |
| 28 | I shall tell Mr Harker about this when I next see him and I shall make sure that Mr Thacker knows about it first thing tomorrow ! ’ |
| 29 | No one comes through it undamaged ; the wound never wholly heals . |
| 30 | ‘ The car leaves behind it two long trails of squashy corpses , the tyres and wheels become encrusted with them , while the running boards are soon black with those that still live and crawl . ’ |