Example sentences of "it [det] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus paintings were there to reveal a presence behind an appearance — be it that of a madonna , a tree or , simply , the light that soaks through a red . |
| 2 | Mr Gates reckons his firm 's $100m investment in NT ( for new technology ) will win it half of a market now dominated by Novell . |
| 3 | Is it much of a place , Caernarvon ? |
| 4 | They begged her not to take it so much to heart and pleaded with Ken to regard it all as a joke not to be treated seriously . |
| 5 | Her story was plastered all over the December issue of Playboy and every time he switched on the television , she was there repeating it all as a multitude of chat-show hosts clamoured to get her on their programmes . |
| 6 | ‘ I acquired it all as a job lot . |
| 7 | There would always be critics who would see it all as a carrot to attract the donkey . |
| 8 | Eva reported it all as a matter of fact . |
| 9 | Now that we do it all on a computer screen we need to define the pieces before we can start . |
| 10 | Gloria ( Perez ) , his girlfriend , wins a lot of money on a gameshow she 's spent her whole life practising for , but Billy bets it all on a basketball game . |
| 11 | I know they say I am a celebrity , but I take it all with a pinch of salt . |
| 12 | Yet you could say it all with a horizon line drawn across an empty rectangle . |
| 13 | Camp is a response to pop performances that are artificial , ludicrously stylized ( Liberace , Tom Jones , Shirley Bassey ) , but whose stars enter into it all with a seriousness , a passion that affects with its holy , innocent imbecility . |
| 14 | That wily old fellow Javed Miandad came out of it all with a commendation for trying to calm his prayers . |
| 15 | Barry Took , who wrote the first forty shows of the series with Bernard Merriman , remembers it all with an affection that is certainly not confined to the money it bought him . |
| 16 | Impetuous , irresponsible playboy that he may have been , the Crown Prince was endowed beneath it all with an insight , a basic commonsense that was certainly deficient in his father . |
| 17 | I want to concentrate on the week in Adelaide in January 1933 that brought it all to a head , and the personal dilemma I faced as the Teuter-Press Association correspondent . |
| 18 | But as it faded when they stopped , she wanted to repeat their coupling again , and drown again in the sweet rush of forgetfulness , until the time when she would bring it all to an end , or so she promised herself she would . |
| 19 | It would n't settle the shaky future of a family business painstakingly built up with love and commitment , it would n't alter the shock of Mortimer 's twisted values … but it would definitely take her mind off it all for a while . |
| 20 | Twice they 've been with a cart , and Miss Theda let them take it all without a word said ! ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps he was selling it all off a stall or using the condoms on some young woman . |
| 22 | Johnson flits over it all in a sentence , and in his letters to Mrs Thrale he came forth only a little more , alluding only to the success of the visit , and to the debate as to whether the savage or the shopkeeper had the best life . |
| 23 | Still , forget Andrew Motion , I could have written it all in a sentence . |
| 24 | Which is a total waste of time cos they 'll rewrite it all in a year 's time . |
| 25 | Yeah , they put it all in a computer and then all the words are analyzed and from the different accents and all that sort of , pronunciation . |
| 26 | She drank it all in a day and the baby slept beautifully . |
| 27 | Pay one fifty a week , at the end of the year we put it all in a jar write your name down . |
| 28 | Then visit your office copying shop where , for about £2 , they will insert it all in a plastic ring binder , with dividers before and after each document . |
| 29 | Isabel watched it all in a daze , barely conscious of the pain of the soldier 's grip . |
| 30 | You travelled in a series of zigs and zags , keeping a record of it all in a notebook — the bearing on which you were travelling , the time of the start and end of each leg … . |