Example sentences of "[prep] it [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Giving in ’ to prevent ‘ giving more ’ , which has been in reality the basis of much of British diplomacy in Europe , will need to be replaced by a position which says , ‘ Above the line anything goes ; below it we walk away . ’ |
| 2 | The structure of universities in Germany , France , Britain and the USA was very different , but everywhere they were by the end of the century centres of scientific research , while at the beginning of it they had mostly been very marginal to it . |
| 3 | Some of it they did not believe ; some of it she did not report . |
| 4 | Your Royal Highness , it follows to me er Council have debated the Riding Report er a lot of it they did not accept , many of the ideas were referred back for further reconsideration and that is in the hands of the Central Management Committee at the moment and we are proposing to develop the ideas and come back to Council and the wh whole report is not forgotten . |
| 5 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 6 | Last time I made one he ate nearly all of it himself did n't he ? |
| 7 | Enjoying every minute of it we traversed right along a wide ledge sparkling with quartz crystals to an impasse , where the way ahead was stopped by a vertical wall suspended over immense space . |
| 8 | She had again unwittingly revealed her misgivings , for on the face of it we had n't been speaking of marriage . |
| 9 | For each c ε J we define the value of f at c to be the element unc We denote it briefly by f(c) and refer to the process of obtaining f(c) from f in this way by the ill-chosen but universally familiar expression " substitution of c for x in f " since on the face of it we have just replaced every occurrence of x in f by c . |
| 10 | It was one of those brilliantly simple ideas people always wish they had had themselves , and believe that somehow they could have had ; no need to incur any extra expense or make any more sizes than anybody else , or necessarily to distinguish one 's product in other way , yet just by the idea one has a potential market of half the jeans-buying public , or at least that proportion of it which has always felt that they are somehow perpetually between the usual sizes . |
| 11 | It was as if her mind had split into two separate portions , Gina thought as with one part of it she listened attentively to the technical explanations and absorbed the aesthetic appearance of the system with approving eyes , her creative instincts stimulated with the challenge with which she 'd been bestowed . |
| 12 | By now she 'd definitely come to pin the blame on the stuff they 'd had to drink ; every time she even thought of it she came close to throwing up . |
| 13 | Without even being aware of it she had half turned , her eyes widening with panic , only to feel the gentle but firm pressure of Niall 's hand beneath her elbow . |
| 14 | But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John . |
| 15 | Some of it they did not believe ; some of it she did not report . |
| 16 | Some of it I battered down backwards , having had visions of leaving and eyeball dangling on a branch like a festive light . |
| 17 | My full interview seemed to go reasonably smoothly so at the end of it I asked how long would it take for my money to come through . |
| 18 | April came and by the end of it I felt exceedingly well . |
| 19 | Er , I I do apologise but erm I 've never known a fox yet drop a cattle , a stock , er something that big , when , when you said farmers and their cattle , their d mostly dairy farmers and all the rest of it I 've never seen a fox do that . |
| 20 | ‘ In fact , I 'd go as far as to say you 've got the worst case of it I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 21 | we did translation , Xenophon , I do not know a word of it I do not think Greek alone makes me miserable , I am always miserable . |
| 22 | declared , ‘ It has long been a rule well established ( the origin of it I do not recollect ) that you can not get discovery except from a party to your action . |
| 23 | Erm , I mean headquarters as from adminis , the administrative erm part of it I do n't know whether you saw the Barnardos This is Your Life lady |
| 24 | Whether he eat any of it I do n't know ! |
| 25 | What the audience made of it I do n't know . |
| 26 | Most attractive detached bungalow blah blah blah blah blah Come to think of it I do n't think it is that one . |
| 27 | come to think of it I do n't think I bought me dad one for father 's day |
| 28 | It was n't because I did n't like what she was saying , some of it I did n't like what she was saying |
| 29 | On the face of it it looks very much as though this is erm very little social justice |
| 30 | Obviously it 'll not be done for the launch but he 's made a smart job of it it looks really smart done it in yellow , erm and really later on this week I 'm just tidying up , I 've got to go and see F I B just to make sure everything 's in place with them in the mounted section and really this time a week tomorrow it 'll be launched . |