Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginning with a modest advance of £6,000 to James I in 1613 , his formal loans culminated in his truly massive advances of the war years 1624–9 , amounting to more than £127,000 , much of it to finance English and foreign military operations ; not to mention the £55,000 which he and the Russia Company magnate Sir Ralph Freeman advanced in 1624 . |
| 2 | And I 'd come out of it looking sharper than a Connecticut Yankee at a 2 Live Crew concert . |
| 3 | Parts of it have been taken over for a secondary motor road , but much of it remains remote and quiet , rarely disturbed by a human voice . |
| 4 | Miranda is lying on her tummy for she has the bath to herself , and she 's pretending she 's swimming , thinking of it getting dark and Manjiku rising , rising from the deep , tracking her . |
| 5 | For , if people and Parliament come to think that the judicial power is to be confined by nothing other than the judge 's sense of what is right ( or , as Selden put it , by the length of the Chancellor 's foot ) , confidence in the judicial system will be replaced by fear of it becoming uncertain and arbitrary in its application . |
| 6 | Hardly any part of it stood more than waist high now , much was covered in grass or blackthorn bushes , and it could never have been more than a chapel anyway . |
| 7 | Much of it seems realistic and sensible : ‘ Do not threaten to call the police . |
| 8 | I want to read all of it to make sure that it appears in Hansard . |
| 9 | ‘ Ewbank 'd inside and Atco 'd out , the English suburban residence and the garden which is an integral part of it stand trim and lovingly cared for ’ ( Richards , 1946 ; 1973 edn , p. 13 ) . |
| 10 | There was a field just behind it containing red and white poles and some painted oil drums . |
| 11 | up it gets worse and worse yeah |
| 12 | The sky above it burned orange and flame . |
| 13 | Huy held on to the thin throat until the face above it turned blue and tears appeared . |
| 14 | But people do live there , though when I moved in it became clear that a third of the flats were empty . |
| 15 | Because he had he used to have a big open fire there and all the kids would be sitting round it keeping warm while he was mending the shoes . |
| 16 | It was large and heavy , a weighty double handful , smoothed above by exposure , beneath its dappling of lichen and moss ; but when Cadfael turned it over it showed rough and pale , with some jagged edges that were tipped with a dark crust , not yet dried out . |
| 17 | It was n't simply that he seemed incapable of telling the truth : he could n't begin to express any thought without it sounding false or grotesque . |
| 18 | As the difficulties in holding to it become clear so we examine the exact opposite — its antithesis . |
| 19 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 20 | The oil crisis in all East European member states of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) , sparked off in July by the unilateral Soviet decision to cut deliveries in the third quarter of 1990 , worsened considerably in October as it became obvious that the Soviet Union would fail to make promised fourth quarter deliveries in full . |
| 21 | There is a tendency for it to sound scrappy and undernourished , and intonation is variable , too . |
| 22 | The only difference then was the weather for it turned cold and hard , the clouds massing thick above us as if the sky intended to fall and crush out all life on the face of the earth . |
| 23 | Catching on to the coat tails of the downsizing rush just in time , CA said that it was surprised by the demands from its users for it to develop migratory and Unix-based applications — a far cry it admits from its traditional stronghold in the mainframe market . |
| 24 | This underscores the need for it to provide more than musical training for its members . |
| 25 | We were n't enclosed long enough for it to become worrying and I got a real adrenaline rush when at one point one side of the passage was replaced by empty space leading to a huge open chamber . |
| 26 | Also , the humanity , strength and potential for fallacy which lies behind the notion of self-esteem makes the idea of training for it appear mechanistic when , above all , it is sensitivity which must be shown towards all levels of expertness among partners in management . |
| 27 | By contrast , the norm for curriculum change is for it to occur piecemeal and gradually over long periods . |
| 28 | No no one no one said a word about it seemed keen or do too keen on the Robin Hood line of which there were plenty . |
| 29 | CPRW has been a member of the EEB for many years and works through it to influence European and global environmental policies . |
| 30 | At — 0.7 V it becomes neutral and the resistance rises . |