Example sentences of "it [det] [prep] a [noun] " 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 What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead .
9 Eva reported it all as a matter of fact .
10 Now that we do it all on a computer screen we need to define the pieces before we can start .
11 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 .
12 I know they say I am a celebrity , but I take it all with a pinch of salt .
13 Yet you could say it all with a horizon line drawn across an empty rectangle .
14 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 .
15 That wily old fellow Javed Miandad came out of it all with a commendation for trying to calm his prayers .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Twice they 've been with a cart , and Miss Theda let them take it all without a word said ! ’
19 Perhaps he was selling it all off a stall or using the condoms on some young woman .
20 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 .
21 Still , forget Andrew Motion , I could have written it all in a sentence .
22 Which is a total waste of time cos they 'll rewrite it all in a year 's time .
23 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 .
24 She drank it all in a day and the baby slept beautifully .
25 Pay one fifty a week , at the end of the year we put it all in a jar write your name down .
26 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 .
27 Isabel watched it all in a daze , barely conscious of the pain of the soldier 's grip .
28 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 … .
29 At some time during my second afternoon at the centre , a Bonny Baby competition was held , but I missed it all in a blur of Mickeys .
30 ‘ You ca n't just 've thrown it all in a bin ! ’
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