Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're right into the teeth of it over the first five holes . |
| 2 | THESE FOUR boxes of action highlights from Pickwick enable the devout to exhume the 1992 World Cup , feeling it again as if they were in attendance in Australasia once more or seeing much of it for the first time if sleep and work schedules got in the way during those 33 hectic days and nights . |
| 3 | All junior pupils will be involved in the planting and each of the five school houses will be responsible for a section , taking care of it for the next few years . |
| 4 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 5 | I thought we might be out of it at the 4th hole in the last round . |
| 6 | He did quite well out of it during the last year . |
| 7 | ( But the new tube was less sure of itself , and revised versions of it during the next few months whiplashed over the map of south London like a demented snake . ) |
| 8 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 9 | Its garden front just manages to survive , intact on its eastern bays , sensitively refaced on the western , beneath the mound of Italianate jumble that Alfred Waterhouse piled on top of it in the 19th century . |
| 10 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 11 | This is because one or other must be better , and pride can not allow executives to settle for the second best — so why think of it in the first place ? |
| 12 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 13 | IT WAS sackless not to have thought of it in the first place . |
| 14 | Had Louis been inclined to forget the destiny his father had mapped out for him , he would have been forcefully reminded of it in the last decade of his reign , when his chief adviser was Suger , abbot of St Denis between 1122 and 1151 , a man of humble birth consumed by a passionate devotion to the cause of monarchy in the Carolingian mould . |
| 15 | Though Abraham receives the promise of the land of Canaan in Genesis 12 and , by God 's terms , takes possession of it in the next chapter , his descendants do not enter it as a people until the book of Joshua , and the business of conquest is not finished till David is secure on the throne half-way through the second Book of Samuel . |
| 16 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |
| 17 | So , you know we 've got a week now to maybe watch the T V tonight , watch the goals again tomorrow , enjoy what we 've just done , but erm some hard work ahead of it in the next few weeks . |
| 18 | There was blood everywhere , more of it by the second , and nothing they did seemed to stop it . |
| 19 | What if I decide against it at the last minute ? |
| 20 | Given that ( i ) no other sources support this view ; ( ii ) the view is none the less generally reasonable ; ( iii ) evidence from Pomponius ( and perhaps also Julian ) seems to speak against it for the second century ; and ( iv ) a Justinianic interpolation seems unlikely , it seems most probable that the text represents the genuine view of Papinian . |
| 21 | ‘ I was against it from the first . |
| 22 | If the Labour party is abdicating the right to retain foreign and defence policy in this country , it is not speaking for the country , and the Government will exploit that against it in the next general election . |
| 23 | Beneath it for the first time , they saw Titron , lying in the water some quarter of a mile away ; a huge , red-lit steel cliff with the black sea boiling pinky-white below . |
| 24 | ‘ We shall see how we deal with it on the next album , ’ Colin concludes . |
| 25 | In the tract Man 's Mortalitie , published in 1644 , the Leveller Richard Overton expressed his belief in mortalism , the heretical idea that the soul dies with the body at death to be reborn with it at the Second Coming . |
| 26 | ‘ If I can get drunk enough on this stuff I might be able to get away with it at the next repatriation board . ’ |
| 27 | He 'd run to follow it , missed it at the traffic lights , almost caught up with it at the next . |
| 28 | The Allegro assai that follows this piece probably belongs with it as the second movement of a two movement sonata . |
| 29 | ‘ Could n't bear to part with it until the last minute . ’ |
| 30 | He reckons we are going into it on the last of the downward slope this winter , and then will run along on level ground for the first quarter of 1993 . |