Example sentences of "it [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it possible this urchin was really the repository of cataclysmic sexuality as Ewan claimed ? |
| 2 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 3 | by the time we got there , it was all , I mean it was only a plain biscuit but it dry all way round here |
| 4 | Is it right that liability for the second most heinous crime in English law , which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment , should be satisfied by this relatively low grade of fault ? |
| 5 | Secondly , is it right that relief should be refused because the court disapproves of the applicant personally or of the motives behind the bringing of the application ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been working out and I feel I have got it right this time . |
| 7 | We de-stocked to fund the work on the hotel , but we 're building the farming up again , and trying to get it right this time . ’ |
| 8 | There is a strong determination to put it right this time and not to let things slip . |
| 9 | So let's get it right this time , eh ? ’ |
| 10 | I plead with him to get it right this time for his own sake . |
| 11 | ISABEL WOLFF BELIEVES THE NOBEL COMMITTEE GOT IT RIGHT THIS TIME … |
| 12 | Let's get it right this time . |
| 13 | ‘ And get it right this time . ’ |
| 14 | He grinned at Rain and Mona and happily promised Eliot : ‘ You 're going to love this one , I reckon we 've got it right this time . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Then let's make sure we get it right this time , ’ he said softly . |
| 16 | You want to appeal but there has already been a long delay , and you urgently need to get it right this time . |
| 17 | I welcome both the inquiries that the right hon. Gentleman has so speedily set up , but may I advise him that , if we do not get it right this time , we shall be at the Dispatch Box again to consider still more cases ? |
| 18 | The future of our agricultural and rural districts is at stake ; we simply must get it right this time . |
| 19 | Cheltenham conservatives must get it right this time , or they wo n't win again , there 's so much in fighting . |
| 20 | There 's one at the back of the free , double one at the back of the freezer , so he 's put it right this side so it 's just up above it there . |
| 21 | We actually got it right both ways . |
| 22 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |
| 23 | Okay , so that should come to four hundred and twenty there , you could look at it this this way , it 's six hundred times , the one lot of six hundred |
| 24 | No he you know I did it wrong that time ? |
| 25 | Where is it clear that reliance may be placed on our association with the preparation of financial information , and where that reliance is not justified by the nature of the association , we should take every opportunity to make the nature of our position clear ( for example , in discussing information , prepared but not reported on by ourselves , with a client 's bankers ) . |
| 26 | Not only is it clear that part of an eye is better than no eye at all . |
| 27 | Victoria made it clear any schedule would have to make time for both shopping and relaxing , with official duties including opening hospital wards and presenting medals at swimming galas . |
| 28 | We have simply asked it to agree not to rake over the events of the past and to join us in making it clear these events are behind us . ’ |
| 29 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 30 | With 12 wins — nine inside the distance — in 13 fights , Wharton is on the right course and Carr can be expected to find it tougher this time . |