Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early thirteenth century the canons and the laity left it for new Salisbury on the plain , by the river ; and Old Sarum survived only as a castle and a rotten borough . |
| 2 | I was just keeping it for wee Jonathan . |
| 3 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 4 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 5 | Now she 'd got to have a double punishment , still she would soon put it about that Elissia and Daryl had planted the spider in Mary- Lou 's desk . |
| 6 | Well if you bought it through that Mace , they tell you to sell and you 'd only get on it . |
| 7 | Modifications of the party constitution were adopted , edging it towards mainstream West European social democracy . |
| 8 | So the museum is stuck firmly in the public sector — except that , as Miss Rankine drily observes , the politicians have robbed it of all Whitehall 's perks , including free auditing and legal advice . |
| 9 | Hitachi Ltd has entered the X Window System terminal market with launch of the HT-3451-G11 , based on a 20MHz Motorola Inc 88100 RISC , claiming performance for it of 70,000 Xstones . |
| 10 | She said Monday night I , er I do n't know whether we 've done the right thing by booking this holiday she said , I 'm thinking about the travelling in the air , it 'll be in travelling for eleven hours so she said I do n't know how I 'll be , I said it 's no use looking at it like that Alice now |
| 11 | Curt Wozniack , Sun 's vice president , engineering said it would take at least three to four years to understand and productise the technology , incorporating it into existing SBus or new hardware products . |
| 12 | Back in 1974 , the idea was to avoid turning it into another Costa of cheap , pack-'em-in highrises , and concentrate instead on upmarket accommodation . |
| 13 | The CRE was recently refused government funding of £140,000 to continue research into a method of extracting carbon dioxide produced by power stations and pumping it into depleted North Sea oil and gas wells , neutralising its environmental impact . |
| 14 | So much so , that he recently purchased a massive ex-display tank , set it up in his dining room and stocked it with wild-caught Malawis , many of which are now breeding regularly . |
| 15 | I think you find it with most West Indian parents … it was n't so much lack of enthusiasm , they just did n't have the time . |
| 16 | Hill Samuel said yesterday that the plan to put Ferranti 's naval and avionics businesses into a separate company and to merge it with another UK defence company , thought to be Thorn EMI , is to be investigated further . |
| 17 | He had watched it in early May , as the tiny breaking leaves spread a pinkish haze over the magnificent skeleton . |
| 18 | Further , his Catholicism also deeply influenced , if subconsciously , Leonard 's own awareness of it in Catholic Montreal . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's got young black America eating out of his hand , because every night he takes their culture , and shoves it in mainstream America 's face . |
| 20 | The Triumph company can continue marketing its flagship 125 bhp model in Britain but can not sell it in other EC countries . |
| 21 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 22 | This lay demand for teaching about contemplative spirituality together with the particular emphases of individual mystics who met and also stimulated it in fourteenth-century England , both represents , and engages with , a complex web of theological and socio-historical developments . |
| 23 | They 'll love it in Northern France . |
| 24 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 25 | Camberwell did not have a major industry that distinguished it from other London districts , but it offered sufficient variety of employment to engage a majority of the workforce ; other breadwinners did not have to go far to reach central London . |
| 26 | The Chancellor 's headquarters were then Queen Anne 's Throne Room in what is now the Cabinet Office , and the nearest route to it from 11 Downing Street lay through the connecting doors of number 10 . |
| 27 | Mr MacGregor , who supports strongly the principle of loans for students , is believed to be embarrassed by the controversy created by Mr Robert Jackson , the junior minister for higher education , who devised a top-up scheme which has angered backbench Tories and the banks that are supposed to administer it from next September . |
| 28 | Could we , could we have it from next Tuesday in my room ? |
| 29 | It does not , however , get it from another EC special Africa initiative , one that sends cheap European beef to West Africa . |
| 30 | All students are asked to complete the confidential Medical Questionnaire on page 31 , and return it before 27 September 1991 to the Medical Officer on the campus which you will be attending . |