Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] by it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes then I was a bit embarrassed by it , because I thought I ought to be a little more revolutionary , but I 've always completely loathed violence and bloodshed and every time I dived into Marxism all I could think of was Lenin shooting the anarchists . |
| 2 | Were there any writers unafflicted by it ? |
| 3 | So construed , a specific issue order means what the cognoscenti always thought that it meant but , since one member of the other group , the ‘ incognoscenti , ’ perhaps was a bit puzzled by it in the first place , I thought it was worthwhile to clarify the matter on this occasion . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose I 'm a bit shocked by it , that 's all . ’ |
| 5 | If , as is generally agreed , it is not Parliament itself which governs , to what extent is the Government itself , minister , civil servants , and the whole apparatus of the state , actually accountable and answerable to the Commons , and so in principle controllable by it ? |
| 6 | Rymer , a former British champion said : ‘ I was a bit bemused by it all . |