Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oddly enough , I had been interested in it three or four years ago when it was on the market prior to being bought by the lady who sold it to me . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I ca n't afford to be emotional about it all and stay on a high . |
| 3 | I would be bored by it all . |
| 4 | May we be worthy of it this day . |
| 5 | I 'm tired of it all . |
| 6 | If Dorothy gave a party , and it was only a small party , it was an effort , and she appeared to be tired of it all , to have forgotten how , in the sixties and early seventies , parties just happened . |
| 7 | I 'm stunned by it all ’ , he said . |
| 8 | I 'm aware of it all the time , and I 'm always thinking about it . |
| 9 | And I suppose being predictable about it all , I better play this for you if you 're on your way to an aerobics keep fit class some time this afternoon , or this evening . |
| 10 | ‘ But I wanted to make sure that , well , I was n't just being cynical about it all , making use of you . |
| 11 | But retired or sacked , it as a tumultuous time in a county cricketer 's life , much more so than the leavings of September , for then players were tired of it all and ready enough to depart . |
| 12 | I was n't being good about it any more ; it was as if the effort of getting upstairs had used up the last of my good behaviour . |
| 13 | But what they will be is discreet about it all . |
| 14 | Thus there is much in it that is purely ‘ Renaissance ’ : Palestrina is the mid-point rather than the starting-point of the narrative . |
| 15 | If it is quick about it this will give the electron the chance to get over the hump and repay the loan as it emerges on the other side . |
| 16 | and everybo everybody 's involved in it all the way . |
| 17 | Yet the 20-year-old at the centre of the histrionic hype is impervious to it all . |
| 18 | But it was obvious that he was used to it all . |
| 19 | Ken was sorry about it all , but he did n't let it interfere with his own plans , which were blossoming as usual . |
| 20 | I was oblivious to it all , but I do n't know how we managed , as agriculture suffered along with every other industry . |
| 21 | But while he was most conscious of himself , clumsy in uneasy gratitude , Emily was delighted with it all . |
| 22 | Old Norman Hunter sounded like he was bored of it all and just kept saying ‘ looking at it , you just ca n't see where a goals gon na come from ’ . |
| 23 | So there was much about it that was like a Broadway musical . |
| 24 | Perhaps , suddenly , I was tired of it all — the painstaking care in fashioning this huge pretence about something that probably was not particularly important to anyone but myself . |
| 25 | He was amused by it all , and to be sure , amazed . |
| 26 | Was any of it true ? |
| 27 | I looked around and was excited by it all , and I wondered to myself given the chance , who could possibly want to miss all this ? |