Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he does that on every questionnaire , but he still has got to get someone to double check it . |
| 2 | So this will actually influence you , because you 'll be able to look through the brochures and see which of those groups it 's being targeted at . |
| 3 | As this must have resulted in plenty of bruised fruit it was probably invented by winemakers rather than cooks , and mulberries have an interesting place in wine history . |
| 4 | First on the agenda was to get the engine going , which had seized solid , but with a little persuasion and plenty of penetrating oil it became free . |
| 5 | By the Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station there is something which looks like a very large public information notice , which in one sense it is , but which is in fact a memorial . |
| 6 | The Disciplinary Committee does , however , have the power to withdraw practising certificates , which on this occasion it decided not to do . |
| 7 | ‘ But when it happens to you in that way it 's another ball game entirely . |
| 8 | If danger threatens powerful muscles can snap the valves tightly shut , and once a bivalve has closed itself in this way it can be very difficult to force it open — it has ‘ clammed ’ up . |
| 9 | ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’ |
| 10 | We have used a simple model to illustrate the Lucas critique , but since the point is an important one with wide applications it is worth stating it more generally . |
| 11 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 12 | From counting for virtually nothing in positivist criminology it now seemed to count for everything , as it had originally done in classical criminology . |
| 13 | To me in that mood it seemed more important than philosophy , like the poetry of Keats or the music of Sibelius . |
| 14 | It was very little money really , but to me in those days it seemed like a lot . |
| 15 | The law is therefore most unfair to victims of negligence ; in limiting them in this way it totally ignores the reality of the situation . |
| 16 | Looking at them in this light it is natural to turn to that Elizabethan model for letter-writing , Angel Day 's The English Secretorie ( 1586 ) . |
| 17 | Well the difference in him in four days it 's not bad really is it ? |
| 18 | It 's a it 's a very bold thing of Toby Baldwin to run him in this race it seems to me , you know I mean he definitely appeared to not like . |
| 19 | If she could have gone to bed with him at that moment it would have been all right . |
| 20 | If the words had chilled her at first hearing it was more because of the cold light they cast on the woman 's most intimate life than for any reference to her own innocence . |
| 21 | But if , if do if you do n't get it through this afternoon it wo n't be Sunday will it ? |
| 22 | So , it 's the difference between audiences : if you put it into one context it 's bad art , you put it into another context , it 's brilliant information . |
| 23 | These northern immigrants soon set about reinventing the climate here , which is on the damp side , and investing it with therapeutic properties it hardly possesses . |
| 24 | Bet if I took his jacket off and put it in that washer it 'd of fallen to bits cos it was that mucky . |
| 25 | But , when you look at it in that context it becomes very much erm , part of your life , and it takes an awful lot to break that habit and there 's no help . |
| 26 | It in many instances it is n't specific about levels of traffic reduction which are significant . |
| 27 | To help it in these roles it has two seats on Council which is the top executive body of the University . |
| 28 | And er looking at it from that light it was er obviously a better proposition . |
| 29 | I think we should up up it from eight pounds it 's worth it is n't it ? |
| 30 | When a programme has been developed to a stage where it is appropriate to subject it to observational tests it is confirmations rather than falsifications that are of paramount importance , according to Lakatos . |