Example sentences of "it [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 32 | She was forced into it that night in The Chase . |
| 33 | Time to fast from it That session with She-She had done me no good at all . |
| 34 | It suffices to note here that the more heavily firms discount the future the less likely is it that collusion among them can be sustained . |
| 35 | ‘ I 've never asked it that sort of question , ’ he said . |
| 36 | which it ca n't be right cos , I suppose in a way it 's none of our business but it is I mean if it gets to it , it puts our company in financial difficulties it means it 's jobs on the line int it that sort of thing |
| 37 | now that family , you know , the Mirror , you know it , it , it that sort of thing |
| 38 | Now , am I to take it that sort of appeal will have a very low priority , I mean , how about Oxfam for example ? |
| 39 | Partly , Davie believes , because the British are now too ignorant of prosody to be able to hear Bunting 's precise , subtle music ; partly because , as an associate of Pound and Zukovsky , he is ‘ an embarrassment to the numerous English historians who would have it that modernism in poetry was a temporary , American-inspired distraction from a native tradition … ’ |
| 40 | Without calling for one 's whole attention , it so persistently demands a small part of it that concentration on anything else is ruled out . |
| 41 | In certain species , the long , fine roots trail below as far as the muddy or sandy bottom and anchor the plant , still giving it ample freedom for floating . |
| 42 | It did not help matters that about the time Rowell 's rather reluctant jab at some New Zealand rugby habits was being published it occupied space beside reports that the All Blacks had been over-vigorous — and sometimes over-the-top — in their match against New South Wales at Sydney . |
| 43 | She backed the second each way , despite me saying I 'm not , I 'm not going in there and back it each way for |
| 44 | You can claim back 80% of it each month from your NI contributions or tax payments . |
| 45 | No , it is all due to the faithful old Sun going through it usual cycle of activity and the so called dragons turn out to be early sightings of aurorae . |
| 46 | ‘ If your form is n't so clear , you 're not going to get it right sitting on the bench . ’ |
| 47 | Is it total insertion of the penis into the vagina ? |
| 48 | An exclusion clause gives the party relying on it total exemption for the breach whereas a limitation clause limits liability to a specified amount . |
| 49 | Was it some trick of the light ? |
| 50 | Driving through fog on the M25 , listening to yet another radio programme about the recession , it is difficult to imagine that there might be light at the end of the tunnel ; but spring is on its way , and I hope it will bring with it some sign of the long-promised upturn in the economy . |
| 51 | At a time when product design has lost its way , the gallery fails to provide a proper historical context that might give it some sense of direction . |
| 52 | To suggest that there is an interested and informed big brother , on whom one side could lean , to give it some advantage over the other , is only to prolong the agony . |
| 53 | Few managers admit that boredom is a threat to the job but equally few would deny that being part of a pilot scheme or of being part of a trial run of new development can carry with it some air of excitement . |
| 54 | To summarise , the problem was to build a machine that could examine enough positions in three minutes to give it some protection against the clumsiness of its evaluation functions . |
| 55 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 56 | This put it some way below soccer hooliganism , which 75 per cent thought was wrong , and the use of soft drugs such as cannabis ( 60 per cent ) . |
| 57 | To overcome it some look upon their own experience and try to offer its essential characteristics to others . |
| 58 | Was it some kind of ‘ leak ’ ? |
| 59 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |
| 60 | Is it some aspect of your work or your life that is getting out of control ? |