Example sentences of "it [prep] [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A part of your father 's gift I think you have , if you can learn not to deface it for spite because I am in the same world with you . ’ |
| 2 | He said the Kenton Road unit was vital to the 30 adults who have regularly relied on it for help since it began as a pilot project two years ago . |
| 3 | Rhino horn as a homeopathic rheumatism cure is all the rage in the East ( and some nearer to us here like to use it for adornment as dagger handles ) and the cost of collecting this cure was infinitesimal compared to the poacher 's gain — so the black and wide-lipped rhino are threatened . |
| 4 | Er maybe some , I think quite a few did it for money because money was short in , really . |
| 5 | Slip your right hand through the hand grip strap and adjust it for comfort if necessary . |
| 6 | We mistake it for reality because we are so involved , so lost in the illusion , so absorbed by the drama , that we forget we have chosen to be here , that we are willing participants in an elaborate stage production . |
| 7 | Born in Warsaw in 1905 , his full name was Marius Ladislas Steniatowski , but he shortened it for convenience when his parents came to England in 1921 . |
| 8 | There 's a site to which this Society objected on Wetherby Road in Harrogate which we thought did n't need developing at all , but in practice the District Council decided they wanted it for industry because it considered the need for industry to be so great and we have along this frontage of Wetherby Road a row of three car showrooms and a token spot of industry behind it . |
| 9 | I do n't particularly see it as compromise because for me it is a method of going forward , if you can agree on something which is a basic principled demand around a particular issue and then pull into action a broader range of people around that . ’ |
| 10 | They should not mark it as trustee because Registrars would not accept it . ’ |
| 11 | They should not mark it as trustee because Registrars would not accept it . ’ |
| 12 | They should not mark it as trustee because Registrars would not accept it . ’ |
| 13 | His eyes lingered wistfully on the flame , followed it through air as Isambard lifted it . |
| 14 | But he asked me if I 'd send them er er a full report of it after day after they 'd done it . |
| 15 | Has she not I mean she never watches it after tea if you notice , she 'll always go out and play or something . |
| 16 | I probably come on with , on , on , on you with it after Christmas as well cos I 'll probably put some back on |
| 17 | The problem for the Thatcher Government is that its own diagnosis of the crisis of state authority constantly impelled it towards intervention whether in the internal affairs of trade unions , the spending priorities of local authorities , the curricula of schools and universities , or the patterns of family behaviour . |
| 18 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 19 | Hunter observed that ‘ … the whole viscera when all the Blood is press 'd out goes into a very little bulk , even the Liver will lose vastly of its bulk and in short the whole viscera will come into a small compass when they are well clean 'd and put into dry cloths ; you are then to go to the trunk of the Body and empty it of Blood as well as you can and press the Blood out from the Face , Hands , etc. as well as Arms , and the more Blood is pressed out the better ’ . |
| 20 | It was held that the company could not rely on the clause to protect it against liability when the dress was stained during the cleaning process . |
| 21 | We think it against nature if someone so lacks prudence that they involve themselves in great foreseen evil for the sake of satisfying some fairly trifling present impulse . |
| 22 | The word was brought west by Xenophon , who introduced it into Greek when describing the fabulous garden built by the Persian Emperor Cyrus at Sardis ; from the Greek paradeisoi it passed into Latin as paradisum ; and hence into Middle English as paradis . |
| 23 | And she goes to me like a silver plate and they just turn it into gold as soon as they walk in there . |
| 24 | Slide it into place so the aluminium frame is tight up to the rebate … |
| 25 | The Regional Committees will be informed immediately of this selection so that they can take it into account when making their own choices . |
| 26 | He said that social security benefits , which are tied to movements in the Retail Price Index , would reflect the change , but that he recognised its particular impact on people with low incomes and therefore Peter Lilley would take it into account when benefits were uprated next year . |
| 27 | Oh we will unless we 've gone down the wrong hill We 'll have to practice the window cleaner one if you 're going to read it to the rest of the class , have to practice the face and read it with expression so they do n't all fall asleep oh hello , hi . |
| 28 | regarded it with contempt if not positive suspicion . |
| 29 | He examined it with interest while Mum collected her handbag and locked up . |
| 30 | Four Winds was built on rising ground on the northern outskirts of the city , and Merrill studied it with interest as she got out of her car . |