Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we use the art of repetition and change , this small idea can then grow and help make all the music , or at least enough of it to generate a formal logic , a compelling emotional experience for those who listen . |
| 2 | A chain wound its way round various wheels and cogs and at the end of it hung a large bucket . |
| 3 | His ink drawing of the parsonage ( and the church with its tower across the road ) and a photograph of it show a large , long , impressive building on two floors , the front door surrounded by thirteen windows . |
| 4 | The knowledge of it caused a strange mixture of pride and jealousy , love and hatred , which troubled him and even now made him stay his hand before announcing his decision . |
| 5 | " the true excellence of the English constitution [ is ] that all the parts of it form a mutual check upon each other . |
| 6 | Her massive bosom was heaving in and out and the splash of water down the front of it made a dark wet patch that had probably soaked right through to her skin . |
| 7 | De Gaulle had clearly created this confrontation , but it would be misleading to suggest that his courting of it represented a fundamental change in direction , either in ideology or method . |
| 8 | Leave the groove of Primevil as soon as possible and stay within 6 metres of it to reach a poor belay at the foot of a groove in the first tier of the wall above the slab ( about 50m ) . |
| 9 | A street lamp threw faint light and out of it came a young woman . |
| 10 | A number of further points should be noted : ( 1 ) If the financial adviser is acting for a newly-formed bidder ( eg an " off-the-shelf " company ) , the standard of care required of it has a special dimension . |
| 11 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |
| 12 | She moved towards it to take a better look , glad of the chance to withdraw a little from his disturbing presence . |
| 13 | And the worrying thing is it all starts in the margin like it had a through school . |
| 14 | Yet , obvious a performance though it was , behind it lay a real anguish and he knew it , and knew he could n't help it . |
| 15 | The tracks it left behind it bisected a faded trail of bootprints . |
| 16 | Between us and the stairs was the desk , and behind it sat a fiftyish thin man with a lined but peaceful face . |
| 17 | However , the maker does a good fret job and has included useful features like a compensated saddle , with a ‘ step ’ cut into the bridge behind it to ensure a good break angle for the strings and plenty of room for future saddle-height adjustment . |
| 18 | With it came a new sound — deep and frightening . |
| 19 | This objective was indeed achieved , but with it came a spectacular collapse in crude prices , which lasted from 1985 into the following year , when there were calls from the Gulf states for Britain to cut its North Sea output ‘ as part of a global effort between OPEC and non-OPEC exporters to restabilize the world oil market ’ . |
| 20 | With it came a sudden clarity of atmosphere , so that the trees and haystacks stood out in high relief , and the distant hills seemed to come nearer now that their outline was sharply etched on the horizon . |
| 21 | The ghost associated with it remains a permanent threat to the living , as it wanders the earth with a stretched neck looking for companions . |
| 22 | But it says with it has a limited budget and Touchdown will have to compete with other deserving projects . |
| 23 | To the French he was a great innovator , an artist who brought a startling lightness to the execution of his pictures , and with it introduced a fresh breeze of English naturalism into French landscape painting . |
| 24 | This thing he was putting himself in for was not ordinary athletics , but a curious hybrid of a sport which , it seemed to Jazz now , was so peculiarly rooted in the old British tradition that anyone pretending to come into it wearing a bloody turban was going to stick out like a clown in a gathering of clerics . |
| 25 | Christianity seemed more and more to mean clericalism and once the Second Crusade of 1147 was over the popular religious fervour that had been channelled into it needed a new outlet . |
| 26 | Laid mesh side up it gives a good base for carpets and tiles , and smooth side up it can be painted and stencilled to match design schemes . |
| 27 | When Stox went under it became a laughing stock . |
| 28 | Mill Lane leads from the village to the mill and a short way along it stands a 15th century thatched cottage that formerly housed the millhand . |
| 29 | One scuffed heavy shoe is braced against the floor , the other dangles in space , with the turn-up riding high above it to reveal a thick grey sock crumpled around the ankle . |
| 30 | From it sprang a beautiful rose-bush — which blossomed with black flowers . |