Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be insipid to say this book loves football , it does n't , it lusts after it with a taste for the perverse and the painful . |
| 2 | It 's worn well ; David must be looking after it with a coat of stop-rot now and then . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely . |
| 4 | I think we do have to explain the , the re-establishment of authoritarian forms of government more carefully , we ca n't just assume that there 's a kind of almost instinctive hankering after it among the mass of the population because I 'm just not convinced by that at all . |
| 5 | Their prey this morning was Lawn House , lying just below it on the hillside . |
| 6 | The Package Name and Issue fields are self explanatory , The Selection column shows how each package selects the package immediately below it in the structure ; ie. SELECTED , LATEST or PREFERRED . |
| 7 | His voice went away again , and I heard doggy noises-puppy noises , come to think of it over the phone . |
| 8 | ‘ One hundred and fifty miles , most of it over the sea . ’ |
| 9 | Finally , as this is the Christmas issue , I 'm finishing with a little quiz , which I hope you will find time to do just for the fun of it over the holiday . |
| 10 | Played in English on a steeply-rigged stage in a shabby hall , this revival packs a pulverising punch , the most gripping account I have experienced of it over the years . |
| 11 | He put it on the table and fixed the end of it under the lamp . |
| 12 | So , if I want to play a melody , I 'll think of it along the strings rather than across , to take advantage of that . |
| 13 | She ran to it , scooped up handfuls of loose earth and began to make a barrier of it between the edge of the fire and the hayfield . |
| 14 | He has done an enormous amount of hard and soft thinking , but most of it about the stimuli to which he is responding , and the rest about whether he is being honest with himself as to how he is responding . |
| 15 | I 've still got bits of it about the porno magazines and that though . |
| 16 | Although he has a large enough income to support them both , he puts most of it into a building society and also invests money in shares . |
| 17 | ‘ Gone are the days when we used to crumble half a ola of it into a chillim of tobacco . ’ |
| 18 | He still stays in a church house and has converted part of it into a chapel , where he celebrates mass for 200 people every Sunday . |
| 19 | " Take as much lean of boiled ham as you please , and half the quantity of fat , cut it as thin as possible , beat it very fine in a mortar , with a little oiled butter , beaten mace , pepper and salt , pot part of it into a china pot , then beat the white part of a fowl with a very little seasoning ; it is to qualify the ham , put a lay of chicken , then one of ham , then chicken at the top , press it hard down , and when it is cold , pour clarified butter over it ; when you send it to the table cut out a thin slice in the form of half a diamond , and lay it round the edge of your pot . " |
| 20 | They formed a circle round him and he broke out of it into a gallop , tearing round and round the square in a high-spirited frenzy . |
| 21 | I poured 70 per cent of it into a glass representing the wages paid to those of us who work in the business , 20 per cent into a glass representing what was ploughed back by way of reinvestment in plant and machinery , 5 per cent into a glass representing dividends and 5 per cent into a glass representing tax . |
| 22 | " En vacances " was a short exercise which involved the location of information and incorporating some of it into a letter to be written in French , using a word processor . |
| 23 | She rewarded him with such a beaming smile that he took the memory of it into the surgery with him , where it stayed all morning , brightening the day for him . |
| 24 | He quickly wrote to London to apologise , and asked if he might use Dr. Watt 's " Short View of the Whole Scripture History " , asserting that " the author was a Dissenter , and the introduction of it into the School is not likely to create any fresh difficulty " . |
| 25 | To do well , you need to become sensitive both to surges of lift and to the feeling of flying out of it into the sink . |
| 26 | ‘ So why not bring a little of it into the office ? ’ |
| 27 | The splash of the water against the wheel and the splatter of it across the windscreen recalled to Harry 's mind the sound of falling water that had drawn him in a dream up the stairs of the Villa ton Navarkhon : a dream of statues made flesh , of messages concealed in images , of meetings both expected and located , amounting to what all logic suggests they can not be : rendezvous to which one has already unconsciously agreed . |
| 28 | Wrapped up in it , like a cosy cocoon , she rolls around the stage , or strews parts of it across the floor only to sink to her knees in the middle of the pile . |
| 29 | none of it towards a survey like , productive towards a survey |
| 30 | And some of the newcomers have money to throw around , so I 'm not going to prevent them throwing some of it towards the hunt . |