Example sentences of "[prep] it [conj] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp reckons that it is so vital to its future to gain possession of it that it is betting the company on making a success of OS/2 2.0 . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll have to get a photo of it when it 's finished , ’ Ian Jones said as he finished the meal of fish , salad and chips that Belinda had prepared as soon as she arrived . |
| 3 | Marion decided finally that she 'd start with " Dearest Pete " and work up gradually to " Pete , my darling " because that seemed to her to be the most loving , the most tender , the most romantic : the one with the sound of real love echoing round the saying of it when it was spoken . |
| 4 | And Wright , whose misery over the weekend was compounded when he wasted a glorious chance to rescue a point for Arsenal , added : ‘ Some people are just having a go at me for the sake of it and it 's beginning to get to me . ’ |
| 5 | Erm the third one is we 've got a small amount of money out of , think again it 's out of TEED and , but it 's N Y T E C have got hold of it and it 's to do with further development of the Careers Service Tech Partnership , but it 's only a few thousand , it 's a very small n amount compared , I mean the bid that we 've put in for this Standards and Indicators is more like sort of thirty thousand . |
| 6 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
| 7 | Computervision Corp so wants to put its sad ownership by Prime Computer Inc behind it that it is remaking itself in the pure computer-aided design software image of the company Prime acquired as quickly as it can . |
| 8 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 9 | In particular , disagreement exists as to how child abuse is best defined , and practitioners are confused concerning the best ways of preventing non-accidental injury and dealing with it once it is identified . |
| 10 | I am not rejecting the idea of Jesus being my representative — all I am doing at the moment is to point out some difficulties with it when it is considered as the central idea in the atonement theory . |
| 11 | They should be helped to recognise that racism is a reality in society and that , although they can not protect the child from it , they can prepare him or her to deal with it when it is encountered . |
| 12 | But we are stuck with it until it is won in a manner suitable to Bush , whether or not the UN conditions have been met . |
| 13 | Lydia Lopokova ( 1891-1981 ) studied ballet at the Imperial Ballet School in St Petersburg , joined the Diaghilev Company in 1910 and remained with it until it was disbanded in 1929 . |
| 14 | They should be able to read the agency 's report , the Council thought , and point out what they considered mistakes in it before it was disseminated as fact . |
| 15 | Well I I I did try see if the cat was in it but it was frozen . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , there 's no point in it being so beautiful if you ca n't ever go out in it because it 's raining , ’ said Betty , revealing a childish streak in her character which Lydia found rather less appealing than her habitual bossiness . |
| 17 | As the sports car is likely to be designed with relatively better braking and steering to control this momentum and hence the danger inherent in it when it is moving , this difference in ‘ inherent dangerousness ’ is probably considerably greater . |
| 18 | Instead he insisted that the truth of God is to be found in it when it is approached in the proper way — by one who is searching in awareness of his own need . |
| 19 | ‘ You do n't put an empty box in a safe ; there must have been something in it when it was put there and the lavender sachet makes me think it must have been something of sentimental value . ’ |
| 20 | There was a tiny hole in it and it was spilling white blobs of polystyrene like grain . |
| 21 | And that he had that house built , er , like er , before he got in it and it was paid , built and paid for like , you know and that . |
| 22 | Or better still find the source , the cassette player , and rip out the cassette and jump up and down upon it until it is smashed into little pieces . |
| 23 | I should prefer the headland without it but it 's beginning to look as if it had a right to be there . ’ |
| 24 | Denice has already decided she wants chicken , but is n't sure exactly what she wants done to it before it 's put on her plate . |
| 25 | I notice if you put the the headphones in it would erm you 'd maybe be listening to it as it 's taping ? |
| 26 | There is , however , only a fugitive , implicit ( and comic ) reference to the tale being an exemplum within the text , and no reference to it as it is presented in the manuscript ; the tale is identified in the manuscript by the name of the character peculiar to this basically East Midland version , Dame Sirith . |
| 27 | They arranged to go out for a drink on the second evening , although Kathleen was n't really looking forward to it as it was bound to turn into a ‘ What was the name of that blonde with the big chest ? ’ sort of session and she would end up driving them both home and quite likely putting them both to bed ! |
| 28 | I think erm we could have a much healthier aspect to it if it was taught to u in a healthier way , I mean |
| 29 | Indeed , it must be fully aware of what is happening to it when it is playing dead . |
| 30 | From then on , it refers to the file by the number it allocated to it when it was opened . |