Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been nothing about it on the television news since the day the car was found . |
| 2 | There 's nothing about it in the manifesto . |
| 3 | There is nothing about it in the rules ! |
| 4 | He thought nothing of it at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought nothing of it at the time , because my knee has straightened after five minutes in the past . |
| 6 | There had been nothing like it since the heyday of Northcliffe in the early years of the century . |
| 7 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 8 | Dr John Curtis , Keeper of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum , said yesterday that there was nothing like it in the world . |
| 9 | There had been nothing like it in the UK before . |
| 10 | A description of the new house was lavish in its praise — ‘ There is nothing like it in the colony . |
| 11 | none of it towards a survey like , productive towards a survey |
| 12 | Much of this music has no other recording — and none of it on the harp , and King plays it with rare strength , sensitivity and the conviction of one who is also inventing it as the same time — and is delighted by his own trouvailles . |
| 13 | Lord Justice Watkins would have none of it in the high court in January . |
| 14 | Was the Council willing to embark on a major new undertaking in a field in which it had only limited experience , none of it in the validation of teacher education itself ? |
| 15 | ‘ There was something about it on the news . |
| 16 | Cos there was something about it in the Best magazine was n't there ? |
| 17 | I learnt something about it in the past yeah |
| 18 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 19 | I was fed up after weeks of playing deck quoits and shuffleboard , and the Mantela appeared to be the perfect introduction to the South Seas for , instead of going straight to Sanderstown , she would call at Rarotonga , and spend a day or two there , so I would be able to fit in a visit to another island and see something of it at a leisurely pace . |
| 20 | You can live something like it in a commuter suburb , where if you have a blazing row with your wife , neighbours will only get to know about it if she tells them . |
| 21 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 22 | There 's something like it in the folklore of just about every culture . |
| 23 | She 'd come across one like it in a house of ill-repute where it was known as a squirt . |
| 24 | I mean , there must be something behind it for the police to go that far . |
| 25 | Sheila , it strikes me that one of the main problems with the argument is just what Ruth said : wages for housework is a kind of global undefined demand which sucks everything into it like a whirlpool , and ignores all the other demands — what about equal pay , what about equal educational opportunities , what about contraception and abortion , what about nurseries — there 's no short-term strategy in it , let alone long-term strategy . |
| 26 | Beneath the surface of this gentle evening a complex and never-ending game , which had something in it of a duel , was being played , the players swimming in their milieu like fish , at different levels which they would occasionally switch , to make an attack or to retreat , to seize prey or to threaten . |
| 27 | Their departure had something in it of the bowed and wretched mien of Adam and Eve in the many ‘ expulsion ’ paintings he had later seen , and by then the Garden itself had a ruined look , paradise destroyed . |
| 28 | Well at least there 's something in it for the viewer . |
| 29 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 30 | He wanted to know if I was interested in doing something on it in the magazine . |