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 | No he you know I did it wrong that time ? |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | Not only is it clear that part of an eye is better than no eye at all . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Women and Beauty in April nineteen forty three wrote - there is a special kind of beauty preparation that ca n't be bought in a single shop in the world because you must make it yourself from spirit , heart and simple courage and you make it fresh each day . |
| 28 | It is necessary to have a lot of different stages , so that you 're coming to it fresh each time , and I used to find when I was younger that that would mean putting it aside for several days . |
| 29 | Ai n't it funny this time of year , the garden always looks bare and scruffy and |
| 30 | ‘ For this reason , ’ said Mr Bell , ‘ although we have maintained current levels of reversionary bonus rates for our life assurance policies , we have thought it appropriate this year to reduce slightly the interim reversionary bonus and bonus growth rates in respect of our pension business in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland . ’ |