Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 2 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 3 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
| 4 | So if you let me take a copy , I 'll give that lease you signed to my company solicitor and get him to go through it with a magnifying glass . |
| 5 | You needed to use imagination to see through it to the ground below . |
| 6 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 7 | It is n't one of the large free-standing circular linkers ( through Silver do have one of these and I hope to write about it in a later article ) . |
| 8 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 9 | In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons . |
| 10 | The party rejoined the coalition in 1921 in order to work against it from the inside . |
| 11 | Murray was summoned to appear before it in the spring of 1913 , but by then he was in South America acting for Lord Cowdray . |
| 12 | ‘ And so , ’ I continue , ‘ the suntan becomes fashionable and it 's no longer as necessary as it was — taking Robinson Crusoe by way of example — to hide from it under a parasol in order to conserve that fairness of skin threatened by the desert island climate . |
| 13 | It is at the level of explanation that the sexism of sociolinguistics is most blatantly on display , and I want to concentrate on it in the remainder of this section . |
| 14 | That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough . |
| 15 | So if four of us were to work on it as a group , |
| 16 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 17 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 18 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 19 | Have to be able to talk about it to the owners tonight . |
| 20 | I try any watch the production at some time during the week in order to be able to talk about it to the Press . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to talk about it at the moment , Stephen , if you do n't mind . ’ |
| 22 | Well , this is an issue which is sort of under debate and it 's all part of the training thing , 'cause we are going to talk about it at the Training Committee tomorrow . |
| 23 | Yes well erm we 're still going to have to talk about it with the elders you see . |
| 24 | You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen . |
| 25 | My contact with David had fired me with an interest in Peru again , a desire to engage with it beyond the level of annoyance . |
| 26 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe they want to talk to it about a burning truck , ’ said Masklin . |
| 28 | Once a decision is made it must be communicated in writing to the claimant , who then has three months in which to appeal against it to the SSAT . |
| 29 | But , still , he liked to hear about it from the others . |
| 30 | I got to hear about it from the police . ’ |