Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was plain to her that her therapist was meticulous , thoughtful and highly trained — it was undeniable — but Scarlet increasingly found all that beside the point because her malaise had not significantly decreased with treatment , and worrying about the cost of it kept her awake at night . |
| 2 | what I 've seen in the paper today , we 're both gon na join today , er this week , er Council erm , er are looking forward to it , they approve of it bet you bloody County Council will |
| 3 | It 's definitely a blues record , and most of it features my own compositions . |
| 4 | There 's no doubt that while the East is fascinating in many ways , most people who write of it overlook its two outstanding features — sand and syphilis , especially the latter , which is very prevalent . |
| 5 | I think it was then I tried to work out her relationship to Gómez , but the complexity of it made it difficult to grasp . |
| 6 | ‘ The enormity [ sic ] of it scared us both . |
| 7 | Our interest lies chiefly with the main board since it is here that investor pressure or the lack of it has its main significance . |
| 8 | Body repair , and then they 're given minute mediastinal amounts of the essential amino acid which would otherwise poison them , they 're given really tiny amounts of it to keep them healthy . |
| 9 | Her raincoat was not belted — her skirt was too long — her brown hair hung down her back with a pale blue kerchief tied over the top of it to keep it clean on the train . |
| 10 | I knew that soon I would have to come to grips with what had happened , to wring some meaning out of it to make it endurable ; but for the moment I simply could n't bear to think about it . |
| 11 | You should consider whether this is really what you want to do , or whether it is because you have never been on holiday alone before and the thought of it makes you nervous . |
| 12 | The compacted mudflow presents a much more serious problem to archaeologists than the relatively soft pumice of Pompeii , and this coupled with the awkward presence of the new town on top of it makes it unlikely that it will ever be completely excavated . |
| 13 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 14 | From their own point of view , this cosmos and the mythical deeds associated with it control their contemporary social life and provide a moral framework for present-day action … |
| 15 | For some , as indeed for T. E. Lawrence , this entailed not just the rejection of a repressive social order , but a disidentification from it requiring nothing less than the relinquishing of the self as hitherto constituted and inhabited by that order . |
| 16 | He knew something of the new music , but neither the movement as a whole nor Wagner 's particular achievement within it meant anything special to him . |
| 17 | When the studio system collapsed , many of the directors who had flourished within it found themselves unable to impose themselves on a process that too easily slipped out of their control . |
| 18 | Now , even in it took us some , some time to get the situation under control but we did eventually get it under control but , as I say , not without a lot of misgivings and very very strong complaints from the public at large . |
| 19 | However , there is nothing in it to suggest what these fuller disclosures might be . |
| 20 | The curd was then put into a straining cloth and left to drip with a blanket wrapped round it to keep it warm . |
| 21 | The façade is now Baroque , but inside it retains its simple Romanesque form , though it was extensively restored in the late nineteenth century ( 353 ) . |
| 22 | If a person is suffering from a fairly severe mental disorder and has close friends or relatives who sympathize , encourage early treatment and make full rehabilitation possible by providing a tolerant but secure home after hospitalization , then the person has a fair chance of ultimately coping with their illness without it handicapping their general performance in life too severely . |
| 23 | Again misunderstandings can occur , and the person leading the service and trying to communicate a Christian message may be hard put to it to demonstrate their true meaning . |
| 24 | It is unlikely that corporate management has the information available to it to determine what social goals are supported by a broad consensus or what their order of priority might be . |
| 25 | And the Tory reaction to it shows their crude callousness . |
| 26 | I 'd say you 'd be hard put to it to pay your expensive dues on that flat you live in . ’ |
| 27 | It was absolutely no good just giving them a sketch and expecting them to expand on it using their own initiative . |
| 28 | I have never in my life looked forward to starting a diet , but by the end of my holiday I could n't wait to get back on it to maintain my slimmer figure ( with every other diet I have put weight back on and more ! ) . |
| 29 | Yeah , if you add O , you put an O on it to make it plural and A you just put an E on it . |
| 30 | So the third one comes up , the other one 's brother , and he says yeah I will but first of all you 've got to give me a corn on the cob with lots of butter on it to make it all slippery . |