Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was from these that the ‘ grammatical rules of school textbooks ’ were derived , at least until the work of descriptive linguistics in this century , and perhaps still despite it in some cases . |
| 2 | All methods include : ( a ) grouping of material ( b ) an arrangement of it into some sort of sequence |
| 3 | Ace thought of it as some sort of insect , although she knew it had too many legs . |
| 4 | Another thing that tickled me about that game was that when vinny had got his second he went over to one of the hoardings that had ‘ Alexei Sayle ’ written on it and kicked the shit out of it for some reason ( same goal I think as above ) |
| 5 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 6 | Ace had been dimly aware of it for some time , but now she realized that beads of laser light were swinging in crazy arcs all round the stub of girder on which she and Defries were standing . |
| 7 | No it 's all of it even the h and the w I think they might have lost some figures off of it at some time . |
| 8 | She says she 's spent her life living modestly , as Eric wanted , but now she wants to blow a bit of it on some fun … |
| 9 | It is a part of the ego-organization , and developed out of it in some ways rather as the ego itself differentiated from the id . |
| 10 | With his old-fashioned grace Murphy even mentioned in at least two speeches that he wondered whether the World Cup , and the impassioned pursuit of it by some countries , was really a good thing after all . |
| 11 | I READ your reply to the £10 letter re medical treatment or the proposed determent of it by some doctors , and I was completely astounded by the lack of logic in the statement ‘ have helped themselves to get there . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ At this hour I imagine she 's fast asleep in bed — unless , like me , she 's been ripped out of it by some hooligan ! ’ |
| 13 | This year 's York Festival and Mystery Plays has put its troubles firmly behind it with some events already sold out with still three months to go . |
| 14 | But when we have got such a satisfactory outcome , unless subsequent events show that we have got it wrong , or that we have wrongly read the environment or some other major change , we would aim to stick with it for some years . |
| 15 | Yeah , I just want to get the emphasis back onto that one first , and the products , we accepted it and we 've got to live with it at some point in time , but the longer I can put that off , the better . |
| 16 | Of course , sometimes when that happens I mean the ego kind of gets carried away with it to some extent , but that 's all , you know that 's in the nature of the ego . |
| 17 | The state 's involvement offers crucial protection , since failure to accept a coin or tampering with it in some way , like making a forgery , then is regarded as a crime against the state , and serious penalties including execution have frequently been normal for such activities . |
| 18 | I give you a number and you give me some other numbers that are tied up with it in some way . |
| 19 | He said he was concerned with it in some kind of way . |
| 20 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 21 | In view of the importance of this work for modern literary theory I shall deal with it in some detail in the pages that follow . |
| 22 | I find this mode of evaluation very important because it allows me to see how the child is thinking , and to what extent they are thinking about problems they are being presented with , whether it 's shallowly , or whether they are actually going into it in some depth . |
| 23 | And erm you 've got that Harrogate goes into it in some detail . |
| 24 | The physics classroom had a spiral iron staircase leading from it to some region inhabited only by science masters . |
| 25 | Painful inflammation of the prostate is one of the main reasons that men under 50 consult their doctors , and experts believe that as many as three-quarters of some groups of men aged 30 to 50 suffer from it in some form . |
| 26 | For long before 1946 , it had been customary for Parliament to preserve an oversight of such central government delegated legislation by requiring that such legislation be laid before it in some form or another . |
| 27 | ‘ There must be treasure in it of some sort . |
| 28 | It was almost as if his thoughts were not wholeheartedly in it for some reason . |
| 29 | The staged process allows the majority to watch the change without having to be involved in it for some time . |
| 30 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |