Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no limit to the amount of money which could be used during any given assignment but at the end of it each operative had to account to Kolchinsky for his or her expenses in tabular form , supplying the relevant chits to back up the figurework . |
| 2 | On the face of it such legislation seemed unnecessary ; after all , who in America would want to trade with a country like Iran ? |
| 3 | In the exercise of it many factors have to be considered besides the strength of the case . |
| 4 | It was significant because during the course of it two things became very plain to Anna . |
| 5 | How on earth could any programmer keep the general plot and utter weirdness of it all while providing a playable , interesting game ? |
| 6 | To have the thing scraped or vacuumed out of her womb , the very thought of it last night had sent her to the bathroom , heaving over the modern white lavatory . |
| 7 | The Eastons restored the ornamental paintwork , most of it imitation brickwork painted over the actual brick , and in the case of the wall paintings , have reinstated the full scheme . |
| 8 | He was free to move around his subject and to incorporate into his depiction of it any information gained by this process or acquired through previous contacts or experiences . |
| 9 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 10 | A year ago Japan held an international meeting on aid for Mongolia , which produced pledges amounting to some $120m in credits and aid , some of it emergency assistance to keep Mongolia 's lights on ( literally ) . |
| 11 | In the middle of it Sniffy Wilson rang . |
| 12 | On the face of it electric traction has many advantages . |
| 13 | It is as if the creation of a regulatory bureaucracy carries with it implicit powers to achieve agency goals . |
| 14 | It was thought to be nothing more than a shattered argillaceous deposit , produced by repeated submarine landslipping and carrying with it exotic blocks ranging in size from small fragments ( plate 4.2 ) up to whole mountains . |
| 15 | For the discerning holiday makers wanting to get away from it all while enjoying all the luxury conveniences of top class accommodation , the AKTI MYRINA is the perfect choice . |
| 16 | The BBC Scotland task force suggested that the best way to pursue these guarantees might be to reverse the previous arrangement and keep the licence money in Scotland , paying out from it those fees imposed for taking network programmes and utilising corporate resources . |
| 17 | In it old Joe writes : |
| 18 | On the one hand are those adult educators who see in it exciting possibilities to extend the concept of adult learning , making it more relevant to the issues and problems facing ‘ disadvantaged ’ groups , helping them to participate more effectively in society , gaining more recognition and resources , removing gross inequalities and injustices . |
| 19 | Without it few executives reach great organizational heights . |
| 20 | He had already seen to it that fodder had been stored in stone-built barns situated at strategic points on lower pastures . |
| 21 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 22 | HERMS captures this associated data and adds to it spatial data generated in the CAD graphics data base . |
| 23 | Dealers who exhibit generally agree that the fair is successful commercially , has improved its standard in recent years , and look to it this year to test the general market for antiques and collectibles . |
| 24 | Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River . |
| 25 | Think of the difference it makes when you can look at programmes like that in the classroom on a video player : you can stop the programme at any point , you can go back and look at something again , you can choose to break it up into as many short sections as you want to and you can come back to it another day to refresh students ' memories . |
| 26 | We were talking about it one day walking down the road walked up to this woman , went I fucking hate |
| 27 | But , you know , they talk about it all day do n't they ? |
| 28 | I s that was the thing , Dave was moaning about it last night see . |
| 29 | It has the power to reform and transform lives ad through it countless people have been given new strength . |
| 30 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |