Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a memory he had n't known he had , and even now he knew very little about it beyond the fact that it involved him and his father and a railway tunnel . |
| 2 | Many British institutions are secretive , but few are quite so patronising about it as the City . |
| 3 | Trent said , ‘ Wind picks up , we 'll need to tow half of it in the Zodiac . ’ |
| 4 | Followed by one grated fresh apple topped with a quarter of a pint of vanilla-flavoured custard ( make half a pint of custard , adding a little extra sugar and a few drops of vanilla essence , and save half of it in the refrigerator for Friday ) . |
| 5 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 6 | He insists that no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 7 | He insists no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 8 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 9 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 10 | Interestingly , as we went to press , Intel stock had spiked 15 points in three days , some of it on the strength of a strong buy recommendation from Merrill Lynch , whose analysis underscored the strong demand for Pentiums . |
| 11 | ‘ Yeah , I just heard some of it on the radio . |
| 12 | Well I do n't , I 'm bread and I might some of it on the top . |
| 13 | And some of the newcomers have money to throw around , so I 'm not going to prevent them throwing some of it towards the hunt . |
| 14 | There was still some of the food in the bag , and I dropped some of it onto the ground . |
| 15 | Their sunshine tour , some of it aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia , will take in eight countries — Anguilla , Dominica , Guyana , Belize , the Cayman Islands , Jamaica , the Bahamas and Bermuda . |
| 16 | There is a good deal of informal communication about courses in particular subjects , some of it passing along the external examiner grapevine , some of it through the ‘ invisible colleges ’ of research networks . |
| 17 | China 's growth is fuelled largely by coal and so is India 's , some of it in the latter case thanks to World Bank funding . |
| 18 | A staggering £300,000 had been raised from local people and businesses , some of it in the form of covenants . |
| 19 | The particular themes of PNP needs , curriculum , teaching strategies , home and school — remain areas of central concern , and about each of them there is now a substantial body of conceptual and empirical material to be tapped , some of it in the twelve PRINDEP reports . |
| 20 | and I put some of it in the freezer |
| 21 | Ivy was growing up its trunk and the recent gales had wrenched some of it from the bark . |
| 22 | Not another like it in the world ! ’ |
| 23 | Here , if one animal is attacked by another above it in the status-hierarchy , the attacked animal , rather than fighting back , instead directs its aggression against some inferior — a means of dealing with the situation which is open to all except the most subordinate member of the group . |
| 24 | Creggan found his plumage had fine mist settling on it , while his beak grew shiny wet with it as the trees of Three Island Pond changed to faint grey shadows of their former selves before disappearing into white . |
| 25 | He need not be interested in it at the time when the insurance is effected . |
| 26 | And er , on the other side , the , the people interested in it in the social sciences , erm , did n't particularly like it , because , at that time , they were heavily dominated by er , Marxist and people on the left . |
| 27 | It was provided with a direct link to the London and North-Western 's Camden Station and so animals were driven direct to it from the trains . |
| 28 | In the media I mean I have n't seen much about it in the media . |
| 29 | But they have n't said too much about it in the paper . |
| 30 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |