Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It looks as though it 's over wi' awd Blossom , then , " he said , and rested his hand briefly on the old cow 's back It was an enormous , work-swollen hand . |
| 2 | ‘ Since old Josh 's time it 's been used as a holiday retreat by various Proberts down the years , ’ he added , ‘ with some of the land let out for summer grazing to mainland farmers . ’ |
| 3 | I have driven along that road to Scotland many times and I know that beyond my hon. Friend 's constituency it is not so good . |
| 4 | We had never moved , always living in the same place , 18 Ravensworth Road , Kensal Green A late Victorian artisan 's house it was , a two-up-two-down with me and my parents on the top floor . |
| 5 | He said Advanced Micro 's announcement it plans to ship ‘ hundreds of thousands ’ of 80486 chips this year amounts to about one week of Intel 's total productive capacity , and as for the latter 's plans to line up a manufacturing partner to boost production in 1994 , he said he doubts the company will find much excess capacity in the industry — and any company acting as a partner with Advanced Micro could face legal action , but he would not say what Intel might do . |
| 6 | It is not the poor man 's shelter it pretends to be , but a rich man 's plaything , related to that larger Dairy House which Richardson 's heroine , Clarissa , inherits half a century earlier from her grandfather . |
| 7 | And so we 've got to desire to have our broken relationship with God restored , you see we need to receive what God offers in Christ , the fact that Christ died for our sins does not mean a thing to us until we say yes I accept it for me , I believe you died for me , I receive it , I 'm linked into it , you see your house can be , let me give you a very simple illustration , your house is linked up with er Eastern Electricity and there is so many er I du n no what , what the what it is , but there is the power there , the there are , there are kilo watts of power on tap in your home , but in the winter you 're cold , when it gets dark outside , it 's dark inside the cooker , the electric cooker does n't work , the fridge is not operating the food is going rotten , you ca n't watch a programme on television , why , because you have n't plugged into the source of the power , it 's as simple as that , you ca n't blame the Electricity Board , it 's not Eastern Electricity 's fault it 's your fault because all the plugs are out of the sockets and it does n't matter what the Electricity Board does short of blowing up your house , they can do nothing for you and it does n't matter what God has done in Christ until we as it were to also plug in , it does n't mean a thing to us , but the moment we link in , that 's the change , the lights come on , there 's , there 's heat there , the stove works , the , the radio , the television , the record player , they 're all operating , the freezer 's working , the situation has changed , we needs to receive what God offers us in Christ |
| 8 | ‘ Apparently , ’ Conolly continues , ‘ Champagne is to be restored to the position of the rich man 's drink it enjoyed before those wretched own-label chappies started making it available to all ! ’ |
| 9 | The following morning he told me what a wonderful night 's sleep it had given him and was fulsome in his praise of what he called his ‘ beautiful lady ’ . |
| 10 | If hunting had once been in the red bitch 's blood it had long since been bred out and forgotten . |
| 11 | All the rest depend on this being present , for if a procedure is not appropriate to a particular patient 's condition it can not be judged quality care ( Shaw undated ) . |
| 12 | In all probability , however , in the modern solicitors ' partnership it will have been agreed to leave goodwill out of account ( see below ) . |
| 13 | It has also been asking the public what other composers ' works it might like to see , from Franz Lehar to Ivor Novello and Noel Coward . |
| 14 | In the Supreme Court 's opinion it was clear that the tipper ( Secrist ) had not breached his duty since he did not disclose the information with the purpose of gaining some direct or indirect personal benefit . |
| 15 | I du n no quite how erm er much er of other people 's conversation it 's picking up but it 's probably picking me up er |
| 16 | But for the bony discomfort of the seats and the pressure of other people 's legs it was quite pleasant to take our time . |
| 17 | From my thirteen-year-old daughter 's account it is still as uncritical as it was in my own schooldays . |
| 18 | But pretty soon into the new model 's life it was clear that adverse press reaction was far from Ford 's biggest worry . |
| 19 | To face herself in a mirror without flinching : neat mid-brown hair that grew in orderly waves , a little longer than her father would have liked , almost to her shoulders , but not the shaggy bird 's nest it had been on Mars . |
| 20 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 21 | In Elizabethan days , rosemary shoots were tied with coloured ribbon , tipped with gold and given to guests at weddings to symbolize love and faithfulness , and on New Year 's Day it was a gift for guests , together with an orange stuck with cloves . |
| 22 | Then very shortly after her birth on New Year 's Day it was realised she had a heart problem . |
| 23 | They know that if an item has the Royal Navy 's endorsement it is bound to be of good quality . |
| 24 | If a local authority wished to open a new senior citizens ' home it would seem unreasonable to burden the current year 's community charge/council tax payers with the full cost of an asset that might have , say , 50 years ' useful life . |