Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [adj] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Genet 's case it produced among other things Prisoner of Love , a record of the time he spent with the Black Panthers 's in the US and Palestinian soldiers in Jordan and Lebanon . |
| 2 | I assume that it contains among other things the letters I have sent to him . |
| 3 | She was n't so sure about her safety when it came to other things . |
| 4 | Yes sir , on the erm first part erm in in clarification if I might sir the erm question of er briefing the Chairman is in fact dealt with in paragraph forty seven of annex C of P P G twelve although I 'm grateful for information on paragraph forty eight , erm and it says amongst other things that er there shall be a briefing and that briefing , the contents of that briefing shall be made public can I press the er spokesman for the environment committee to tell us er why in fact that was n't done and whether he thinks there can be prop proper public debate if it is n't done . |
| 5 | It applies to all things . |
| 6 | It applies to most things though , I mean , do n't it David , in life ? |
| 7 | He got a lot of Mr. Andrew 's money , too — I know a lot more than people think I do — and instead of being put aside for new ships it went into silly things like this grand building and I daresay for fat salaries for some people . |
| 8 | Troubles continue to pile up for Sequoia Systems Inc and now Ultimate Corp has filed a lawsuit against it alleging among other things that Sequoia has sold and attempted to sell its computer systems and maintenance services directly to Ultimate 's dealers and customers in violation of its contractual obligations , that it has disparaged and defamed Ultimate to such customers and dealers , and has interfered with Ultimate 's relationships with such customers and dealers . |
| 9 | When this is translated into personal terms , it means among other things that at some point in his or her career a teacher will have to look at its pattern and will have to pay attention to changes which ought to be made in his or her work-role . |
| 10 | The ‘ Community method ’ therefore was pragmatic , but it aimed at great things . |
| 11 | He tried to explain that magic had indeed once been wild and lawless , but had been tamed back in the mists of time by the Olden Ones , who had bound it to obey among other things the Law of Conservation of Reality ; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used . |
| 12 | But it strikes on particular things , it strikes on something rough , but you never quite know , know what , not , no good trying it out because you never quite know whether it 's going to strike or not , when you get to be older , we 'll allow you to strike a match , but you have to be quite older to do that |
| 13 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 14 | But when it comes to big things like religion , politics and money , we all too often just vaguely hope that we 'll get by . |