Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] [coord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both items were reported 150 years after Augustus ' death by the traveller Pausanias ( 8 , 46 , 5 ) , who says that the ‘ keepers of the wonders ’ note that one of the boar 's tusks is broken while the surviving tusk is kept in the Emperor 's Gardens in a Sanctuary of Bacchus and it measures just three feet long . |
| 2 | Having set up a presence in the south east with representative offices in Japan , P&W felt confident enough to establish a bridgehead in Glasgow and it opened an office in the city last January . |
| 3 | If anything should happen to him , there could well be a collapse in Indo-China and it was for this reason that Collins recommended that the US should continue to extend military and economic aid ‘ in order to check the spread of communism in South-East Asia ’ — but only as long as de Lattre was in Indo-China . |
| 4 | I had once had to witness Otto tackling a bundle in Paris and it left a lasting impression : of an elephant stripping bark . |
| 5 | I did a job for Penumbra and it 's over . |
| 6 | Following from Richard and Jenny erm , they both had to attend a meeting in Dublin but it 's with absolutely no other alternative . |
| 7 | Or perhaps she would paint a picture of Oliver and it would be hung in the National Gallery and everyone would come and look at it and weep because it was so beautiful . |
| 8 | ‘ Lemurs are a delicacy in Madagascar and it was all I could do to stop my fellow passengers eating them , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Indeed many advertisers , fearful of too close a relationship with Oz and It , dismissive — or completely ignorant — of Time Out , but wishing for a way into a market that the then flagging Melody Maker and NME were failing to tap , seemed optimistic about the prospects for a new alternative British music paper . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes and loud and clear on the Saint or they 'll give you a ticket for Cincinnati and it would be months before your next of kin were informed . ’ |
| 11 | it was a waste of time it was a waste of a journey for Philip and it was too much for him |
| 12 | Swannson already has a depot in Swindon but it is a condition of his O licence for that operating centre that maintenance can only be carried out in a restricted manner . |
| 13 | Harbury told her : ‘ Eliot was also sent a knife on Monday and it looks as though Tavett has been arrested for murder . ’ |
| 14 | They can also perform a limited corporate finance function , and provide a mechanism for marketing shares in an unquoted company ( Newco ) , where otherwise the benefit to an employee of holding shares is somewhat illusory , in that he can not realise his shares for cash , unless he remains a shareholder of the company and ( usually ) an employee or director , until there is a sale of Newco or it obtains a listing . |
| 15 | This positive feedback process whereby calcium triggers its own release is a property of RYRs and it may also occur in those non-muscle cells expressing these receptors . |
| 16 | Mum 's favourite times for saying ‘ Do n't wish your life away ’ are when we 've just booked a holiday for August and it 's only January , and when it 's nearly Christmas and we 're bursting with excitement . |
| 17 | ‘ Hell ’ , indeed , might be some acoustically Stones-ian descent into a nightclub in Hades but it also could be the only relationship song where a harshly dissected third party pollutes Simon 's playpool . |
| 18 | ‘ I am not prepared for us to be a satellite of Middlesbrough and it appears the majority of Radio One programmes will be coming from Middlesbrough , ’ he said . |
| 19 | A dark solid wood folding chair a fi a fiver at Barwell and it 's new . |
| 20 | The site was gutted by a blaze in January and it 's believed animal rights protestors were involved . |