Example sentences of "it [prep] [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , he bought it for next to nowt . |
| 2 | Yeah and you feel obliged to them to have it for next to nothing |
| 3 | Alec took it at first for a whale . |
| 4 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 5 | Other sentences have a similar type of structure , and tend to end in a similar evocation of vastness and remoteness , as the eye reaches its limit of vision : " under the enormous dome of the sky " ; " the monotonous sweep of the horizon " ; " as if the impassive earth had swallowed her up without an effort , without a tremor " ; " till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda " . |