Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 2 | In In re A Debtor ( No. 1 of 1987 ) the Court of Appeal refused to follow that approach and held that a statutory demand , which on the face of it contained a number of puzzling and perplexing statements , was nonetheless valid because the debtor knew precisely what he owed and there was no injustice in holding that his failure to pay the debt gave rise to a presumption that he was unable to pay . |
| 3 | She imagined she was cupping this white-hot power in her womb , and that the walls of it contained the fire . |
| 4 | The sheer unfairness of it brought a flush of angry colour to her cheeks . |
| 5 | Spots of it stained the thighs of her robe . |
| 6 | The shock of it surprised the dog , when then bit the farmer ( modestly forbids me to mention where , but do give it some thought ) . |
| 7 | On the birth the relationship crystallised and out of it arose a duty on the defendant in relation to the child . |
| 8 | On the birth the relationship crystallised and out of it arose a duty on the defendant in relation to the child . |
| 9 | Some years ago the teachers of one language pronounced themselves satisfied that at the end of a year the students of it had the capacity for literary reading ; the equally competent and concerned teachers of another language were convinced that their students had achieved no such capacity , and that the process was rather a waste of time . |
| 10 | The shock of it choked the scream that tried to form in her throat . |
| 11 | The skirt developed for the Super 4 was more efficient than its predecessors : less of it touched the sea , so less power was wasted in overcoming water resistance . |
| 12 | The man who got out of it left the headlights full on and the engine running . |
| 13 | Indeed , a significant part of it concerned the relevance of depreciation accounting . |
| 14 | Out of it came an imperative on women , as well as men , not to be swayed by traditional culture and educational choice into seeing only obstacles to advancement . |
| 15 | She loved her childhood with him , and the memory of it survived the misfortunes of her adult life . |
| 16 | But none of it contradicted the evidence Defries had seen , and some of that had been equally unbelievable . |
| 17 | The pliable rope rose and fell a little , and the bottom of it hit the oak floor with a hard and hollow sound . |
| 18 | On the far side of it stood a village of longhouses , much like the ones we had left back on the coast , except that these were entered by round doors instead of the normal rectangular ones . |
| 19 | In the centre of the room there was a portrait of a very beautiful young man , and in front of it stood the artist himself , Basil Hallward . |
| 20 | Because of the ambiguity in interpreting data of this type and the relatively small amount of it encountered the analysis will concentrate solely on descriptions which were scored as correct recalls . |
| 21 | None of it held the magic of her communication with Friend ; even here , jacked into the shadows , she ached for him but reason told her she would n't find him , long before she stopped looking . |
| 22 | It was the most delicate shade of creamy blue and out of it floated the masts and superstructures of fishing boats , riding silently at anchor . |
| 23 | ‘ The government is trying to fiddle the figures in an attempt to curry political favour just like it fiddled the unemployment figures . ’ |
| 24 | An enormous powder blue car , gleaming and new , its plentiful chromium winking in the sunlight , was drawn up in front of the house and against it leaned a man in a white suit . |
| 25 | Behind it lay the woods called The Chase , an ancient forest . |
| 26 | The offer was rejected but behind it lay the assumption that a new relationship will have to develop between north and the south in a wider European context . |
| 27 | Behind it crawled a hoverbus of MivvyCorp employees having a party . |
| 28 | Behind it sat a man whose physical appearance was out of all keeping with his professional stature . |
| 29 | Er er it was like a Molotov co bo cocktail , a thing like that and you put it in the , in the tube and you put a wad of cotton , gun cotton behind it closed the flap at the back onto er just a latch , like a , a door a gate latch which locked it , then fired the cap which fired the gun cotton which sent the well then we we 're trying this out on the waste ground where the , that was then , where the waterworks ' offices are now in Green Lane , well there that was , at that time , that was a glue factory that was the glue factory there ooh . |
| 30 | Weather I suppose got something to do with it had a weekend down there with her and Ant |