Example sentences of "[prep] it [pron] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | On this particular day , they had been shooting at Taos and at the end of it they dropped some acid and took off with two other friends to visit the nearby tomb of D.H . |
2 | By the looks of it she has all the potential you foresaw . ’ |
3 | and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately . |
4 | So if you , I mean , to go back to our initial proposition , whilst on the face of it it seems curious that in the area in south China where one would expect land reform to be easiest to achieve the communists adopt a much more moderate , slower , cautious policy but for a whole variety of reasons we , we 're , we 're tending towards the view that that would be the most appropriate anyway . |
5 | So first of all I put it on a little er I 've got a rather nasty little table that looks as though it ought to have a chamber pot underneath it you remember that nasty little wooden bedside table that I hate |
6 | Beneath it he wore black velvet leggings , and his feet were encased in black slippers , decorated with gold embroidery . |
7 | With it he brought good news to first-time buyers , who could save up to £600 on the purchase of their first home . |
8 | Considering Doreen was at least five feet nine and big with it I thought this rather excessive . |
9 | Her anger grew and with it she became shrewish . |
10 | The dream of the New Look has to have taken place during or after the summer of 1950 , because in it I wore one of my two summer dresses , one of green and one of blue gingham , that were made that year and that lasted me , with letting down , until I went to school . |
11 | In it he said that man 's control over the world — steam , explosives , atoms and space — has outrun his power over himself to use that command wisely . |
12 | In it he described all the things that happened on the voyage . |
13 | In it he mentions several examples of sharp practice in the laboratory , one or two of which are new to me . |
14 | Coleridge had after all an interest in the maintenance of this humanity , for without it he seemed unable to regain those peaceful days represented in Frost at Midnight . |
15 | they tell us how scared they are and I do n't like listening to it I getting sick of it now . |
16 | Those boys who work on it they 've that stuff up there ready for the exam you see . |
17 | Miss Honey found a tray and on it she put two mugs , the teapot , the half bottle of milk and a plate with the two slices of bread . |
18 | In each case you you did it this is what I like you went straight for it you went straight for the salt on the most difficult one the carbonate . |
19 | I think about telling her that Andy was there , in his sleeping bag , listening the whole time , but while I 'm thinking about it something goes wrong ; there must have been a flaw in one of the glasses , or the weight is just too much , because there 's a cracking sound and one side of the pyramid starts to collapse , sending an avalanche of falling glass and frothing champagne spilling crashing down off the table and smashing , bouncing and splashing onto the mats and the floor below . |
20 | For obvious reasons the dangers of such malpractice are endemic in policing , and it may be ‘ respectable fears ’ about it which fluctuate more than the extent of abuse . |
21 | ‘ We could have just announced that free tickets were available at the door but after talking to the police about it we decided that was a bad idea . |
22 | I knew we would be without them for the return so there 's no point talking about it we have other players who can score . ’ |
23 | As I thought about it it seemed extraordinary that any man should endure such behaviour and still wish to marry the object of his desire . |
24 | And I take this opportunity to say that , erm , I had , I moved this at budget revue , and my intention was to move erm , pretty much the wording that Mr moved at property , but I was unable to obtain that wording by the time of the meeting , so I put this forward , erm , knowing that it obviously was different words , but but with that same sense , that we do have to address some very real issues about County Farms and not to pussyfoot about it I think that er , any comparison between the County Farms and a commercial enterprise is a coincidence of terms , but I ca n't see how we can have forty million pounds worth of estate , as it 's valued on the free market , to be making two hundred and ninety-one thousand pounds a year out of it , and think that that is commercial . |
25 | When you begin to think about it you grow dizzy , your stomach turns over , not just at the commercialism of it all , but at the aestheticism of it all , not just at the chequebooks but at the Intelligent Conversations , not just at the fifty percent but at the Sensitive Responses , not just at the winks and nods but at the Hushed Silence in the Presence of Art . |
26 | well I , getting back to the picture you see , I , when I looked at it I thought good god it 's our Bill , I , I you could of thought it were twin brothers when I |
27 | Now all these other eyes have looked at it I feel different about it . |
28 | ‘ Every time I look at it I see some detail for the first time — a tiny insect on a stone , a bird half hidden by foliage , a shadow which yesterday escaped me . |
29 | Every time I look at it I see these bits of chocolate you spilt on it . |
30 | As she gazed at it she became embarrassed . |