Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A common mistake is to try to use lift on the way back instead of gliding on through it at a sensible speed .
2 I 'm actually going to go in for it in the Telegraph 's competition , so I may as well use the same team for our one if it gets going .
3 you know that er polythene that 's got wire netting in between it like a , like a wire netting sandwich with po with clear polythene on the outside ?
4 A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour .
5 There are billions of galaxies much like it in the Universe .
6 ‘ A Scotch , please — plenty of soda , ’ said Greg , and settled down with it into the sofa .
7 She grabbed her mug of tea , gripping it in both hands and staring down into it with an expression of such misery that one could almost imagine the dead girl 's face reflected in the surface of the liquid .
8 linked in with it at the moment .
9 From these bits of activity , a richer life could develop ; but it is vital that whatever Harry and Elizabeth choose is something they both really want to do and not a situation where she goes along with it in a patronising way , and then leaves him high and dry .
10 Jasper sensed some of this and vowed not to go along with it in the sheeplike fashion of the others .
11 Crowds of spectators were thronging the sides of the narrow road which led down from it into the village and , after Vitor had hurriedly found a parking place , they joined them .
12 The window frame hung drunkenly across the cupboard in the corner with a piece of glass held together by the criss-crossed brown paper hanging down from it like a flag .
13 she 's obviously in it for the bet .
14 I was only in it for a lark . ’
15 I 'm only in it for the fund-raising !
16 Kim 's only in it for the money .
17 ‘ I agree , but then he was only in it for the money .
18 This completes the picture of the perfect rock'n'roll group ; a tidal wave of Jack Daniels coolness , that carried all before it at the Stadium .
19 But there does n't seem to be much in it for the peoples themselves .
20 Finally I slumped down outside it for a while and went to bed myself .
21 But she was still in the grip of a puzzling weariness , and she could barely walk by her couch without feeling compelled to drop down on it for a short nap .
22 They find some woollen garment or other soft furnishing in the house and then settle down on it in a contented fashion .
23 There seems little doubt that Trow Gill once brought down a stream , this entering as a waterfall at the gap now occupied by boulders , and this theory is confirmed by the dry channel coming directly down to it from the heights above .
24 As with Frankie , so much of the pleasure is bound up with the sense of something breaking out all over the surfaces of everyday life , and you being in on it from the start .
25 There 's a little row that goes down beside it round the back , I never knew there was .
26 While ideally this should be the chairman there may be someone even better at it in the group .
27 So clearly now , the , there 's some merit in looking afresh at it in the light of five B , being able to match the kind of funding that 's available there .
28 He looked down at it with a horrified surprise .
29 The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try .
30 She stared down at it for a long time .
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