Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] it [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One guide in 1861 ranked it with St Paul 's and Buckingham Palace and began its report : ‘ We are not a race of giants , but we enter on gigantic works . |
| 2 | It swung open at his touch but closing it , as always , was more difficult and he lugged and half lifted it into place and slipped the circle of wire over the gatepost with a familiar sensation of having turned his back on the workaday world and entered country which , no matter how frequent his visits , would always be alien territory . |
| 3 | He bought the eighteenth-century Letheringsett Hall from the Breretons , and in 1808 engulfed it in Greece , adding this south front of giant Doric columns , which were an exact copy of the temple of Delos on Isis . |
| 4 | The rhetoric of the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere still talked of Japanese altruism , but few took it at face value . |
| 5 | Last year the French won it in Belgium and rivalries remained strong . |
| 6 | Er maybe some , I think quite a few did it for money because money was short in , really . |
| 7 | The British bought it from Baron Thun in 1920 , lock , stock and barrel . |
| 8 | Some accepted it without comment and others were positive about the support provided by case conferences , procedures and registers in dealing with complex and difficult cases . |
| 9 | This left it to Mr , to come up with sufficient information to enable that decision to be made . |
| 10 | Some considered it to Mosley 's credit that a man who had the ability to attain the highest office in government should have ignored the rules of the political game because of his devotion to principle . |
| 11 | For its next reincarnation , I rearranged , revised and slightly augmented the text of the Queen article , replacing the new introductory essay with the original one from Nova , and in 1969 published it in booklet form under the title Syllabubs and Fruit Fools . |
| 12 | all got it at work , it 's being in an office . |
| 13 | So many made it onto land only to be turned back by some unforeseen ailment . |
| 14 | 81 , 82–83 described it as coercion : |
| 15 | as if that settled it beyond doubt , he rocked back on his heels , planted his cane between his feet and assumed an expression of profound wisdom . |
| 16 | The Great Sancy takes it name from a French ambassador to Turkey who acquired it in Constantinople and on his return to France in 1593 lent it to Henry IV as a pledge for money to pay his troops . |
| 17 | It followed the line of the narrow belt of Purbeck ‘ marble ’ to Peveril , where the Romans first used it for monuments such as the inscribed memorials discovered at Silchester and Colchester . |
| 18 | When he first mentioned it to Mr Gebler he thought the old guy was going to have a fit . |
| 19 | Intrigued by Sydney Newman 's two-page memo Donald Wilson first took it to BBC staff writer C. E. ‘ Bunny ’ Webber , whose job it became to flesh out the synopsis into something suitable for a Script-Editor to work from . |
| 20 | A holidaymaker filmed the astonishing scene at the Jersey zoo — and millions saw it on TV . |
| 21 | The town imported raw jute and from 1832 mixed it with whale oil to produce a material capable of being woven into coarse fabrics such as hessian and sailcloth . |
| 22 | Though dated to around mid second century AD by Sotheby 's , several dealers wondered if it could not be a Roman baroque forgery ( one attributed it to Pietro Bernini ) . |
| 23 | We first performed it in New York where a crazy art dealer decided to bring it to London , so to London we came . |
| 24 | Rockingham Castle has been the home of the Watson family since 1530 when Henry VIII granted it to Edward Watson . |
| 25 | ‘ It used to be salted char that was popular — I 'm told that Henry VIII ordered it in barrelfuls — and then there were char pies — some of them three or four stone in weight : now they seem to want it potted in little jars . |
| 26 | A further 12.5 million saw it on video . |