Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally the more challenging the holiday the higher the price , especially if the reward for six hours in the saddle — with perhaps some of it spent in the rain — is a hot bath and the creature comforts of at least a hotel . |
| 2 | Man 's nature was two-sided , only half of it led to wrong-doing , the other half prohibited sin . |
| 3 | His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " . |
| 4 | The fact that we now know so much about it proves that he was utterly wrong . |
| 5 | I do n't know why the people who argued so much about it did n't go and ask these three what had happened . |
| 6 | To appreciate Althusser 's work one must first of all understand why so much of it takes the form of an exposition and defence of Marx 's writings . |
| 7 | ‘ Everyone thinks the Amaranth Line was enormously wealthy , but so much of it went in the Sorcery Wars — dear me , I intended no discourtesy , sir . |
| 8 | There is , for a start , so much of it to watch and talk about . |
| 9 | It would be sensible to cut off most of her hair , but so much of it had grown when her parents were alive that it seemed somehow unfaithful to their memory to scissor it all away . |
| 10 | ( Feb 20-Mar 20 ) You should read the forecast for Sagittarius , so much of it applies to you at the moment . |
| 11 | They water it down , that 's how come there 's so much of it knocking around . ’ |
| 12 | Most of it comes think so , I mean so much of it comes from the North American Indians that |
| 13 | A second characteristic of the collaboration in these classrooms was that so much of it appeared to arise spontaneously . |
| 14 | He said there was not much of it to remember , really . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's not much of it left . |
| 16 | There 's not much of it left . |
| 17 | I mean there 's not much of it to tuck in . |
| 18 | There was a pause and then much laughter , not all of it forced . |
| 19 | There had been a lot of talk among the customers about Harry Pascoe 's venture to the Americas , and not all of it had been complimentary . |
| 20 | The learning mode was a judicious mixture of lecture , class lessons , practical sessions and ( on Friday afternoons ) individual/ small group work , using work-cards or booklets ; these latter varied , being strictly or loosely structured according to need , allowing for different kinds of work , not all of it written . |
| 21 | It can be seen from the northern parts of Australia and South Africa , but not all of it rises from Sydney or Cape Town , and from Wellington in New Zealand it is never visible at all . |
| 22 | The notes , if not all the articulation , may be reconstructed from the Oeuvres complètes ( illus.4 ) by taking the two violin parts and bass , and ignoring the rest ignoring , that is , the newly composed viola line , the first bassoon ( much but not all of it derived from the viola ) , both the oboe parts and those passages where flutes double the violins at the octave . |
| 23 | I know that not all of it has gone into cricket , but as we know that the Prime Minister , the chairman of the foundation and at least two of the trustees are cricket fanatics , we can expect that perhaps £5 million has been granted to cricket . |
| 24 | All of these things can be found here , in an album which could well be a Bunnymen work , were it not for the absence of much of the pomposity to which they were inclined ( though , unrepentant fans will note , not all of it judging by track titles like ‘ The White Hotel ’ and ‘ Proud to Fall ’ ) . |
| 25 | Tom read just enough of it to see that it was a long way from West Hampstead and no one he knew had been killed or injured . |
| 26 | In his book , On the Trail of Terror , David Leppard wrote later that , privately , Hayes believed the Lockerbie bomb had been a dual device , triggered by a barometric switch and then running on a timer , but that not enough of it had been recovered to be sure . |
| 27 | Thanks to the Under-Secretary , he 's left us with precious little of it to waste ! ’ |
| 28 | Dunlop 's surplus was therefore distributed and nearly all of it went to Morrison to put him 819 above McLachlan which was much more than the undistributed surplus of Lindsay . |
| 29 | nearly all of it 's got ta go really , there 's two gas fires out there |
| 30 | Before the war Burma had the biggest inland water fleet in the world ; practically all of it went . |