Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] it [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lord Justice Watkins would have none of it in the high court in January . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | ‘ There was something about it on the news . |
| 15 | Cos there was something about it in the Best magazine was n't there ? |
| 16 | I learnt something about it in the past yeah |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There 's something like it in the folklore of just about every culture . |
| 20 | I mean , there must be something behind it for the police to go that far . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Well at least there 's something in it for the viewer . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He wanted to know if I was interested in doing something on it in the magazine . |
| 25 | The chain can be described adequately by specifying the first rectangle and then relating the next one to it by the four statements in Table 11.1 . |
| 26 | One senior minister said : ‘ There was nothing in it for the Right . ’ |
| 27 | One senior minister said : ‘ There was nothing in it for the Right . ’ |
| 28 | Besides , there 's nothing in it for the family . ’ |
| 29 | There is nothing in it for the participants except the opportunity to work for low or no wages . |
| 30 | Surely it is a ludicrous notion to suppose that two scientists on their own in a remote basement lab could claim to solve the world 's energy problems so that the scientific community would take up this claim , that world leaders would ask for regular briefings and that there could be nothing in it at the end . |