Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | To her , the building was endlessly exciting , and she liked it for all the reasons that most people would specify as particular causes for dislike . |
2 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
3 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
4 | And so the line could read , ‘ Was it for this the bodies of men grew tall ? ’ |
5 | Was it worth all the hours and hours of work , the sacrifices , the lack of room in your life for anything — or anyone — else ? ’ |
6 | she 's probably bloody used to it after all the years she must of had them , she tells |
7 | In commending it to God , we should couple it with all the workplaces in our land . |
8 | I just took my napkin , filled it with all the coins I had won and tied the corners into a knot . |
9 | And often we are the people who embroider it and overbear it with all the complications ent that that are that are part of it . |
10 | Another delegate objected that all colonization was ‘ necessarily capitalistic and thus exploitative ’ , but a French delegate , Rouanet , reproached him : ‘ it is all too easy to blame everything on capitalism and to saddle it with all the crimes of colonization . |
11 | Family connections gave her an inside view of Oxford 's local government , and hers is the best account of it in all the surveys . |
12 | There were leaders about it in all the newspapers , societies were for the defence of Humpty and Big Ted , and I actually heard two young City whizzkids reminiscing about the Playschool clock on the tube . |
13 | He would send notices of the book to his old school magazine and quietly pin up adverts for it in all the gentlemen 's clubs in London . |
14 | Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors , but oh dear ! |
15 | Erm give me thirty seconds worth of famous dogs they can be in cartoons , they can be in history , they can be in films , they can be anywhere and we 'll do it in half an hours time . |
16 | but I 've kept it from all the years . |
17 | and the milkman would come and everything else , and now it 's all central distribution , and erm , meat , you know , do central distribution , for the whole thing , and erm , they , all the companies that used to deliver to us individually , they deliver to the central depot , and they , in turn , distribute it to all the houses , |
18 | You know , that in 1825 he bought an island on the Niagara River in America and offered it to all the Jews in the world to make a Jewish state called Ararat . |
19 | Er they had a lock , made it a good lock and sent it to all the clients and this is what we can supply , and it used to meet the needs of clients and they 'd er they 'd erm buy it and it kept them in business , you see what I mean ? |
20 | Yes , I mean they had it on all the channels virtually yesterday |
21 | Make no mistake about it by all the processes of the government propaganda machine by kite-flying and carefully placed links , the government is trying to soften us up to the idea of increasing the State pension age for women to sixty five . |