Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’ |
| 2 | She was scarlet with confusion , the breathtaking desire mounting between them making it difficult to cling to her train of thought . |
| 3 | But it 's getting easier for me to blend it all now ; I certainly do n't get as stuck as I did four or five months ago . ’ |
| 4 | It has never , of course , been my privilege to have seen such things at first hand , but I will nevertheless hazard this with some confidence : the English landscape at its finest — such as I saw it this morning — possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations , however more superficially dramatic , inevitably fail to possess . |
| 5 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 6 | Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much . |
| 7 | I suppose you 're frightened of me messing it all up for you , with my dirty boots and all that … . ’ |
| 8 | And nine times out of ten people in that situation , when they 're actually creating their article or their programme or anything else , will take that material , use their own style , wrap it up , and as it were throw it out , and if you 're pro-active in that sense , you stand a very very much better chance of them getting it right . |
| 9 | The sheer numbers of them make it spectacular although there are no huge centrepiece fireworks . |
| 10 | To babies had this dried milk and some of them got it cheap and I suppose there was no work and then they were poor were n't they . |
| 11 | The saxophonist 's widow refused to lie in Ken and Rhoda 's bed , so Ken offered it to Bernard and Ellen : they took the offer , rightly , as a gesture of approval , and the four of them carried it one very early morning from No. 97 to No. 93 . |
| 12 | Protests were also heard from the leaderships in the Baltic republics , Georgia and Armenia , all of them making it clear that they would not co-operate with the army in organizing joint patrols , while the Moldavian Supreme Soviet on Jan. 31 passed a resolution saying that the presidential decree had no legal force on its territory . |
| 13 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 14 | Both of them found it difficult to express their feelings on the war , except in the third person , so strong were their views . |
| 15 | All of which made it impossible to explain exactly why she 'd been so upset to find , after arriving , tired and exhausted , at the large house in Lowndes Square , that she was going to see even less of Ross than she had in New York ? |
| 16 | question eight , in Britain we play the game draughts , in America the same game is called checkers er , number nine , one or two of you got it right , most of you caught out with M G sports cars , the M G actually stands for Morris Garages |
| 17 | Fletcher resolves this by saying that ‘ [ It ] all depends on what doctors customarily do , ’ so that if doctors customarily switch off ventilators in the circumstances under discussion , then this of itself makes it lawful to do so . |
| 18 | of who thought it all up , the opening night |
| 19 | Muttering frustratedly as she struggled to undo it , in desperation she wriggled free of him to make it easier . |
| 20 | Actually he was a very nice man , cheerful and good-natured , but the other side of him blotted it all out . |
| 21 | I divorced my ex-husband five years ago , after years of him making it obvious that I was acting as a ‘ brake ’ on his life . |
| 22 | I think it was then I tried to work out her relationship to Gómez , but the complexity of it made it difficult to grasp . |
| 23 | Her raincoat was not belted — her skirt was too long — her brown hair hung down her back with a pale blue kerchief tied over the top of it to keep it clean on the train . |
| 24 | I knew that soon I would have to come to grips with what had happened , to wring some meaning out of it to make it endurable ; but for the moment I simply could n't bear to think about it . |
| 25 | The compacted mudflow presents a much more serious problem to archaeologists than the relatively soft pumice of Pompeii , and this coupled with the awkward presence of the new town on top of it makes it unlikely that it will ever be completely excavated . |
| 26 | Perhaps what was most lacking in the left 's criticism of A Very British Coup was any general discussion of the distinct importance of television as a medium and , more specifically , the question of what makes it such a potentially politically effective medium . |
| 27 | Reg looked at least three divisions better than anyone else on the park , and many of us thought it incomprehensible of ‘ Bencey ’ to literally drag him off after only five minutes . |
| 28 | I do n't recall which of us spoke it first , but as the end approached we were both mouthing it imploringly , like a prayer , like a spell . |
| 29 | It means erm learning with each other and learning from each other because none of us knows it all ! |
| 30 | Some of us find it hard to adapt to country life . |