Example sentences of "[prep] it that [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … . |
| 2 | The few square inches of it that I could see were spoiled by the sticky red blood which had pooled out over them . |
| 3 | This definition of your task will determine both the speed at which you read the historical information and the quantity of it that you will need to refer to . |
| 4 | Barcelona had already been refused a penalty , but they soon drew level through Julio Salinas , the deceptively inelegant striker who has taken Gary Lineker 's reluctant ill-fitted role on the right wing and , on Saturday , made such a good job of it that he might have had a hat-trick but for Francisco Buyo 's reflexes . |
| 5 | The Marquess of Lincolnshire , a former Liberal Minister ( as Earl Carrington ) and confidant of Asquith , wrote in his diary on 8 December with emphasis , ‘ The general opinion is that Baldwin has made such a mess of it that he must go at once ’ , and on 18 December , ‘ There is a Chamberlain-Birkenhead intrigue going on backed by the ‘ Daily Mail ’ . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes an opportunity is so obvious to the person who has thought of it that he can not imagine how it is not equally obvious to everyone else . |
| 7 | So strange , she sometimes thought , to have all this engineering knowledge in three languages and still be so unable to apply a single word of it that she could scarcely change a plug without helpful diagrams . |
| 8 | She was so out of it that it would have been like making it with a corpse . |
| 9 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 10 | They are so keen to get on with it that they can be guaranteed to see the rabbit before any human and are fast off the mark . |
| 11 | I was gon na say as I recollect I did n't see much wrong with it that I would disagree with erm I think it 's nice to see , you know , sort of progress seems to be going on and erm er what I would say is sort of it might be a good idea to sort of line the numbers up a bit more but erm |
| 12 | The cones are now all flowing with pitch , and my hands are soon so covered with it that I can not easily cast down my booty when I would , it sticks to my fingers so ; and when I get down at last and have picked them up , I can not touch my basket with such hands but carry it on my arm , nor can I pick up my coat which I have taken off unless with my teeth — or else I kick it up and catch it on my arm . |
| 13 | I do believe , however , we 'll learn things from it that we can quickly adapt and put into the hundred and seventy six M F I stores . |
| 14 | by no means perfect and there are some loopholes in it that we 'll have a look at in a moment . |
| 15 | The rain was splashing on the concrete , and the hole in it that he used to pretend was the way to Australia had filled up . |
| 16 | You ca n't see it , sometimes the agents will put a stenching er material in it that you can you can smell it , mm , I can smell gas you know and it 's this stenching thing that you can smell , but very rarely can you see it . |
| 17 | Well I have no evidence from either of them , you know , er that er they are slamming the door on my initiative , other than the statement that was issued which if you read it , there 's very little in it that you can object to , or that I could object to , which commits them , the two governments to an initiative , and indeed that 's what er the last statement that Mr Adams and I issued asked them to do , the only er they also in in their statements say that my actions have been both courageous and imaginative |
| 18 | The Louvre too , though not cheap , has so much in it that you could spend days there and not see all of it . |
| 19 | So I mean yo , there could be things in it that it could be left there , if there 's , but you started |
| 20 | Now he stood behind me , so that I could feel the warmth of his body , but I was facing the box hedge , so close to it that I could n't turn . |
| 21 | If the generator broke down in the middle of the night Penry had seen to it that she 'd still be able to lighten her darkness . |
| 22 | He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it . |
| 23 | Provided a Minister can maintain an effective performance in the House , the Whips see to it that he will get his way . |
| 24 | And even if it has n't , maybe Rohmer can see to it that you 'll spend the rest of your life behind bars along with Jimmy Devlin ? |
| 25 | It 's round , but it has a clarity to it that you might associate with a Telecaster and not with a Les Paul . ’ |
| 26 | So persistent was the language that it had become no more remarkable than just another wayward manner of speaking and their sons paid so little attention to it that it might well have been one of the many private languages of love . |
| 27 | When I was young , we had an old Victorian wardrobe with a mirror on it that I used to sing to . |
| 28 | He could at least spend the money on it that he would have used in buying a ticket to see Dinah , in powdered wig and paduasoy , as Lady Teazle , once again . |
| 29 | I 'm not planning to try so hard for it that I might break down . ’ |
| 30 | But anyway , they allowed this that they did n't have any further use for it that I could have it . |