Example sentences of "it [prep] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got it for all the tournament . |
| 2 | If you are going to take notes , let the candidate know at this stage , explain that you do it for all the candidates , and that they are nothing sinister but simply a memory aid . |
| 3 | To her , the building was endlessly exciting , and she liked it for all the reasons that most people would specify as particular causes for dislike . |
| 4 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 5 | One prostitute said : ‘ I do n't like what I do , I hate what I do , but there is no beating it for all the money you can get . |
| 6 | Was it for this the clay grew tall ? |
| 7 | ‘ Was it for this the clay grew tall , |
| 8 | And so the line could read , ‘ Was it for this the bodies of men grew tall ? ’ |
| 9 | Was it for this the clay grew tall ? |
| 10 | Was it for this the clay grew tall ? |
| 11 | If there is any justification in using them , it 's not that they accurately reproduce the eighteenth century , but that through them we can clear our way back to it through all the nineteenth-century ironmongery put in our way by what , musically , I regard as a particularly corrupting and polluting century . |
| 12 | Was it worth all the hours and hours of work , the sacrifices , the lack of room in your life for anything — or anyone — else ? ’ |
| 13 | she 's probably bloody used to it after all the years she must of had them , she tells |
| 14 | ‘ Yer doin' it fer all the best reasons . |
| 15 | In Braque 's l'Estaque landscapes of the previous year , the two-dimensional surface of the picture is retained partly by allowing the eye no way of escape beyond the mountains , buildings and trees , and here the same effect is achieved by the concrete treatment of the sky , which is as elaborately and solidly painted as the rest of the canvas , and which is fused with the landscape below by the extension into it of all the main compositional lines . |
| 16 | And , gentle though it was , the touch of his lips held the seed in it of all the passion they had shared — and would share , she knew now , in the future . |
| 17 | Every three months or so I 'd clear it of all the wonder remedies he 'd accumulated , but within a week he 'd have discovered some other miracle medicine . |
| 18 | I assume , Chairman , director is the right word , because we 've used it amongst all the other , we 've got the director of library services , we 've got the director of property services and what have you . |
| 19 | He had avoided it with all the fuss going on but wanted to see the Bookman once more before the expedition started . |
| 20 | Another delegate objected that all colonization was ‘ necessarily capitalistic and thus exploitative ’ , but a French delegate , Rouanet , reproached him : ‘ it is all too easy to blame everything on capitalism and to saddle it with all the crimes of colonization . |
| 21 | In commending it to God , we should couple it with all the workplaces in our land . |
| 22 | ‘ They can afford it with all the money they tek off people , ca n't they ? ’ |
| 23 | As it was Judge Justice had to rule against it with all the authority of the Supreme Court of Texas . |
| 24 | He had all their attention now , every eye was wide and bright upon him , Herluin and Robert irresistibly moved to hoping against hope , but very wary of disappointment , Nicol interested but bewildered , for nothing had been said to him of the loss of Saint Winifred 's reliquary , or the possibility that he might have had it aboard his wagon , and had been robbed of it with all the rest . |
| 25 | Though he had gone through the motions of caring she saw now with the painful wisdom of hindsight that , despite all his assurances of love and respect for her , he had really only been interested in his own pleasure , pursuing it with all the subtlety of a bulldozer . |
| 26 | His very presence banished them , and she responded to it with all the fire in her heart . |
| 27 | I just took my napkin , filled it with all the coins I had won and tied the corners into a knot . |
| 28 | Say you 've got a report about a small red car , and you want to compare it with all the other small red cars that have been reported in the area . |
| 29 | Yar , I think I got a copy but I just sort of filed it with all the Quality Manual stuff , as there were various different things which needed . |
| 30 | And often we are the people who embroider it and overbear it with all the complications ent that that are that are part of it . |