Example sentences of "[prep] it [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , of course , Heiton knew every inch of the ground hereabouts , much of it his own property , and so could advise . |
| 2 | " What 's the point ? " demanded Jim , of the heavens , not of her , and it sounded histrionic , but was not ; for the question had behind it his whole life . |
| 3 | One of its central tenets is that studying black civilisation will boost the self-esteem of black students , and with it their academic performance . |
| 4 | Perhaps by magic , her hands were flowing with lotus oil , and with it her firm fingers anointed him . |
| 5 | The movement began in America , and has been imported to Britain , bringing with it what many observers see as an obsession with satanism . |
| 6 | As the most suitable to sum them up provisionally let us pick ‘ Face facts ’ , a roughly formulated injunction which carries with it its own punishments for disobedience , without any need to appeal to God , philosophers or the police . |
| 7 | The mega-merger brought with it its own lexicon and culture . |
| 8 | Put in the baldest terms , one can say that the result of all this was that man — or , perhaps I should say , the hominid ancestors of modern man — became able to hunt and that , with the success of the hunting economy , came culture and civilization as we know it and with it its psychological corollary : the superego . |
| 9 | So if , for example , I believe that you 've got your belief about whether there 's honey by an especially good method which I ca n't use ( because I ca n't get at your honey pot ) , then I will naturally want to adopt your belief , in order to acquire with it its high chance of being true . |
| 10 | For some years a man used to come in and do the deed , but Uncle got on with it himself later round by the stable , using a humane killer . |
| 11 | ‘ Get on with it you black bastard . |
| 12 | But the owner 's possession , and with it his actual power to exercise his rights , is for the time being gone ; he must recover the watch — as he may even lawfully do by his own act — before he can be said to be again in possession of it . |
| 13 | As long as a son holds on to the mother as a love-object he must ineluctably be in conflict with the father , just as , conversely , as soon as he accepts the paternal authority and identifies with his father to constitute his superego he must suppress his fundamental parricidal antagonism and with it his incestuous fixation . |
| 14 | for some days after the flight , the body clock — and with it our daily rhythms — will tend to lag behind . |
| 15 | An infra-red photograph of the King Stone taken in April 1979 at sunrise showed a glow around the stone and a ‘ ray ’ sloping off from it which photographic experts have not been able to explain . |
| 16 | The language has changed hugely since classical times , but the Greeks are the only people in the world , apart from the Chinese , who can look at a 2,500-year-old inscription and recognise in it their own tongue . |
| 17 | She has been on HRT for four years , has never suffered dryness again and attributes to it her general energy and enjoyment of life . |
| 18 | Somes joined the latter company when it was refounded in 1838 , sold to it its first ship , Tory ( sent to New Zealand in 1839 with a shipload of settlers without government permission ) , and became governor of the company in 1840 . |
| 19 | Their contribution to the great house is to restore to it its appropriate character , as a hospitable ( but undeniably middle-class ) home . |
| 20 | However , when we want to emphasize the ability of unc to put charges into motion , it seems preferable to accord to it its full title , or at least its popular abbreviation in the form of e.m.f . |
| 21 | ‘ I learned from him , more vividly than from anyone else , that the study of the New Testament is an exciting adventure , and that while it calls for a rigorous-critical discipline , it is not made less scientific if the student brings to it his own experience of faith . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 've carried on his life 's work , and added to it your own interpretation of the skills he taught you . ’ |
| 23 | His chair was there , and beside it his empty bottle , but Woolley had gone . |
| 24 | Maybe he 'll tell you about it himself some time . ’ |
| 25 | Without making a song and dance about it your quiet air of self-assured confidence makes you a natural leader , so do n't be surprised to find yourself elected unofficial spokesperson for a group of trusting friends , workmates or neighbours . |