Example sentences of "[prep] it [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pachatata 's square is larger than the circle , but has a similar arena ; , in the centre of it too the tell-tale black scar of a fire . |
| 2 | Like many of those discussed in this book , Foucault endorses the ethico-political project of establishing forms of knowledge that do not simply turn the other into the same : as he put it in 1968 , he wishes to find another politics than that which ‘ since the beginning of the nineteenth century , stubbornly persists in seeing in the immense domain of practice only the epiphany of a triumphant reason , or in deciphering in it only the historico-transcendental destination of the West ’ . |
| 3 | Yeah I know , you know , there 'll be two pound postage on it you can guarantee on it so the crafty devils they are |
| 4 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 5 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ she quickly agreed as it dawned on her that if he was who she thought he was then she was going about it completely the wrong way if she hoped for an interview . |
| 6 | ‘ We read about it just the other day . |
| 7 | Like a , thousands more , and another thing we knew we we very often , my wife and I were talking about it only the other day , there was an old saying that er er Percy White 's out of prison . |