Example sentences of "[prep] it [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To assess the distribution , the project leader is first asked to give a date such that the true date is as likely to be after it as before it . |
| 2 | To assess the distribution , the project leader is first asked to give a date such that the true date is as likely to be after it as before it . |
| 3 | They were not far removed at any time from the poverty line , and more frequently below it than above it . |
| 4 | The boat was blown to glory , nothing was ever found of it except for a few bits of debris , and to all intents and purposes both occupants were blown to glory with it . ’ |
| 5 | 13–1–1877 Christmas passed off here very quietly , little notice being taken of it except by the few English residents amongst us . |
| 6 | The only one he knew that well was Rosie , who had cousins in it , brothers maybe , although she never talked of it except in the most general terms . |
| 7 | In mid-afternoon , he hove to , dropped anchor and took Mary the few hundred yards to the sports field , basking a little in their ceremonious passage — the work and self-forgetfulness of the day brought out every best quality in her and yet , paradoxically , although at the pitch of her beauty , she herself was more unaware of it than at any other time . |
| 8 | According to Mrs Baldwin , whose account was more immediate , the words were : ‘ Sir , this is a very grave decision and I am deeply grieved ’ ; but the significant difference is that she adds : ‘ and he went on to tell him that according to some legal opinion the divorce ought not to have been granted , that there were certain aspects of it that in any ordinary case would not have gone through . ’ |
| 9 | Well liberation theology is one version of it that in certain parts of the world , particularly where there is great economic and political oppression , where people get locked up in prisons for believing and thinking differently , and where there is very real persecution of the poor , and those who erm have different ideas . |
| 10 | He eventually got the hang of it but to this day , keeps well clear of water . |
| 11 | In the teeth of the evidence I do not believe that any suffering is ultimately absurd or pointless … the value of suffering does not lie in the pain of it but in what the sufferer makes of it . |
| 12 | Con seemed oblivious of it but in the enclosed space I found it overpowering . |
| 13 | New Scientist , still apparently concerned about youth , reported that uric acid might be the elixir of it because of its power as an antioxidant . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's when you can go , ‘ That guy knows exactly what he is and that 's exactly what he 's going for , ’ and everybody just loves the shit out of it because of that . |
| 15 | Auntie said she had never been interested in horse-racing , and disapproved of it because of the betting . |
| 16 | Everybody hopes that we 've forgotten about that , but we have n't , and we 're reminded of it because of the courage of Lord Whitelaw and his advanced age and ill health , getting on to the T V last week and saying the Home Secretary is wrong to nationalise the police . |
| 17 | I came out of it because of my wife 's health though . |
| 18 | That 's the end of the game , that 's the end of it because on on erm once h Holland needed to lose right , they had to lose , Holland , and er Poland needed to beat Holland and England had to win by a seven goal majority I E seven nil or eight one , seven one would n't have been enough even if Holland had lost |
| 19 | She was still not quite believing any of it when within half an hour her car was safely deposited at a garage . |
| 20 | Anyone who had had that knew a bit about the Treasury and knew a little bit about fighting back and working round them and all the rest of it and of giving orders direct to the Chancellor and saying , ‘ Look , this is what we must have ’ , and then getting the Cabinet to back it , so that it was harder for the Treasury to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 21 | It has to be seen , and felt , and only then can you understand the beauty of it and of Russia . ’ |
| 22 | He dreamed of it and of himself catching it ; imagining it lunging and threshing as he played it and tussled to land it . |
| 23 | This necessity of the pace of social and industrial change has its implications for teaching method : the student must increasingly develop and practise the skills of enquiry and discovery , in order to experience the confidence and pleasure of it and to be able to make fullest use of " recurrent education " possibilities and requirements in later life . |
| 24 | So if you go back to the sort of where we gave it five or six headings yeah or three to six headings you should be aiming say well I 'll input a bit of information on that side of it and at the end of that little section I 'll build in some practice in participation and the participation can be any of those ones you 've put in there on that list you gave us early on er practical allocations |
| 25 | Tiny strangled sobs floated out of it and across the room . |
| 26 | Of course , there is no necessity to include a sample or a gift in any press pack and indeed simply including these items for the sake of it and without a clearly defined idea of why you are doing it is a waste of money . |
| 27 | A tall , prematurely white-haired man in a navy blue suit , with eyes that could focus on you as if you were a fly that had settled on a distant door-knob , he could dominate a large room while seated behind a desk at one end of it and without raising his voice above a conversational level . |
| 28 | Being uncomplicated , the riders tend not to take much notice of it and in their minds , they have already finished . |
| 29 | The only problem is that we are not doing enough of it and in the right way . |
| 30 | The LIFT-RIGHT-LEG sub-function of the WALK function is not a part of it and in no way a module of it . |