Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But half of it you could n't understand could you ? |
| 2 | Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ . |
| 3 | Sorry , when I say in the main , some of it I might , I just want to clarify with the quality committee as to whether they agree or not . |
| 4 | And some of it I can only get in Stowmarket anyway because it 's heavy . |
| 5 | When Alice told her a little of how she felt ( some of it she could tell no one ) , and how she was angry with God as well as Belle Maman , Aunt Violet said God would understand : ‘ He is All Wise , Alice . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew you 'd tracked me down , so I thought if I only took some of it you would n't put the cops on me . |
| 7 | Actually dust off 'im , you , some of it you ca n't even see . |
| 8 | Some of it you ca n't keep int office and |
| 9 | there does n't seem to be any sense to it really but you can try and make a bit of sense out of some of it not all of it but some of it you can make a bit of sense out of it yes . |
| 10 | ‘ Her room smells funny , like an old jar with something sticky and brown in it you ca n't tell what it is . ’ |
| 11 | So you were n't aware of what he could n't do , so much as what he could do and did do , and how little of it you could understand . |
| 12 | I enjoyed what little of it I could manage , though . |
| 13 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 14 | But sometimes it is disturbing to mothers , so if you feel uncomfortable about it you can try giving him a toy to hold while he 's on the toilet seat ’ ; and in general : ‘ If you take it easy in caring for your baby , you will be doing him a great service . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If I start gassing about it to the local vet , ’ she said , ‘ it 'll get all stale and distorted , and I shall be so bored with it I sha n't be able to talk about it at all . ’ |
| 16 | But they were all erm delighted with it I would say . |
| 17 | It 's ages since we played this game , I 'd forgotten how clever at it he can be particularly when you 're not ! |
| 18 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 19 | He got so good at it he could actually produce a thought-bubble ! |
| 20 | But you see they did n't know the truth of the exploration , but if the Government was fifty fifty in it they 'd be entitled to know the exact amount and quantity and what was underneath your feet . |
| 21 | ( In speaking of what a thing is like in this sense , one is not referring to its relation of resemblance to other things , only of that in it which could be the basis of such resemblance . ) |
| 22 | I think if erm , perhaps if television did something more about it you 'd be able to erm , home in on the people who are excluded , erm , people who are outside school , school situations , people |
| 23 | His companion 's tongue had swollen and his mouth was so full of it he could hardly speak . |
| 24 | We have proved if er having considered all the erm information if we are not happy with it we can produce . |
| 25 | In which case if they 're not too happy with it you can turn it off , rewi er wipe it off . |
| 26 | No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it . |
| 27 | Do n't skimp on it , because the experience of great Christians has been that without it we can not grow into Christian maturity . |
| 28 | As the Archbishop of York observed : ‘ they have shown that it [ planning ] should embrace the whole country , and that without it we can not make the best use of the limited space in our small island ’ ( p. 160 ) . |
| 29 | Posidonius confessed that at first he had been disturbed by the spectacle of human heads nailed up at the entrance of the aristocratic Celtic houses , but afterwards " becoming used to it he could bear it with equanimity " ( Strabo 4.4.5 ) . |
| 30 | This whole process appears long-winded and complicated but once you are familiar with it you can employ the strategy very quickly . |