Example sentences of "it [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1724 , David Muir , Chamberlain to the Earl of Eglinton and a merchant in his own right , presented the Society with a silver arrow as the winner 's trophy for the papingo shoot and proceeded to win it himself in the first year . |
| 2 | The windows of the Princesse 's salon had been thrown open to make it one with the vast slab of a marble terrace . |
| 3 | The still joy of the mind in its state of non thought has in it something beyond the rational and it defies explanation . |
| 4 | His adaptation of Twomey 's words and manner had in it something like the meticulous grace of his dancing to his mother 's music . |
| 5 | Heard it what about the best , when he husband stood on her feet and pulled her hair out of it ! |
| 6 | I have grown it myself for the last twelve years , in a small colony in a north-facing border which maintains itself by self-sown seedlings . |
| 7 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
| 8 | Where possible , when your report returns from reprographics , deliver it yourself to the main users . |