Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he this was a week and a half ago and he said , give me a couple of weeks , I want to have a look at the figures and the mix and have a think about it and I 'll come back to you . |
| 2 | There was a terrible resignation about it and a patience , and the pity of it slammed Taliesin at the base of his throat . |
| 3 | I always find it the reddest of the brilliant stars , though there is not a great deal of colour-difference between it and Betelgeux ; the name ‘ Antares ’ means ‘ the Rival of Ares ’ ( Mars ) . |
| 4 | But write a simple part for it and do not keep it going long without rests . |
| 5 | Unless there is an injury or an hereditary problem , there is no excuse for it and I must admit that there is this stubborn streak which runs through the breed . |
| 6 | So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury . |
| 7 | I told me mum about it and she said we ca n't be having that and got on the phone to the doctor , but he would n't even come out and he took me off the [ practice 's ] list . |
| 8 | He said , " I 've talked to Mum about it and if you do n't want to get married then no one is going to force you to . |
| 9 | Thus the metabolism of the vine is well known , and the interaction between it and the soil generally understood . |
| 10 | Barlow Clowes investors to receive £150m compensation continued from page one had properly investigated an obscure Jersey partnership which had been licensed then it would have established a link between it and Barlow Clowes . |
| 11 | Once the prickly and nationalistic de Gaulle had retired from French politics , France suggested in the early 1970s that WEU might provide a link between it and NATO . |
| 12 | Despite this apparent endorsement , SCO wo n't say whether it has even made a decision yet , suggesting that it is still trying to picture a future for OSF/1 , given the lack of industry support for it and the shadows cast by OSF 's re-focusing . |
| 13 | sort of read through a bit about it and then when you 've read it , put the book away and leave it for half an hour or an hour or something and then try and draw a rough outline of some of the main points . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll just tell you a bit about it and then you can see . ’ |
| 15 | Why not , my wife says , knock a hole through the boys ' bedroom wall , pinch a three foot six strip off it and make a new landing passage and extend the walk-in cupboard , forward to take up the old landing and sideways to build a space out to the main part of the stairs . |
| 16 | He had seen Cocteau 's film on the subject several times , was full of admiration for it and wanted to achieve a similar of Cocteau . |
| 17 | In a letter to his lawyers cited by foreign correspondents in Beijing on Feb. 18 , Wang commented on other " leaders and initiators of this movement " who " dared not take responsibility for it and sought to defame it " . |
| 18 | Now how how you work it on your scheme or whatever scheme comes up , it just seems to me that if you are going to have self-regulatory body , there 's got to be responsibility for it and how you impose that responsibility , could I 'm sure be in all sorts of different ways . |
| 19 | Russia 's economic reform programme [ see above ] was causing friction between it and the other republics . |
| 20 | The surface of the water had a slick , glassy look about it and Carey 's cast disappeared with barely a splash . |
| 21 | When reality actually arrives ( and it always does ) the contrast between it and the exaggerated positive focus is sometimes so great as to produce a distorted negative focus . |
| 22 | The contrast between it and Styal could n't be more marked . |
| 23 | So I supposed I 'd better tell my board about it and I did this afternoon . |
| 24 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
| 25 | Groups go up there and they pay the money for it and they put it in the middle while you 're waiting for the film , it 's all carpeted and you can watch all the monitors and they just sit down this huge tub of popcorn they had an op |
| 26 | The winch rested against my chest , a little slack between it and my hands . |
| 27 | For the leaders of the movement a dilution of the radical goals is attractive because it will reduce the stigma attached to the movement and reduce the tension between it and the wider society of which it is a part . |
| 28 | I know what kind of an ordeal you 've had tonight , and , although I might have been willing to tease you before to take your mind off it and give you something else to think about , I do n't intend to ravish you to complete the treatment ! ’ |
| 29 | This , in turn , led to direct confrontation between it and the coalminers in the latter part of 1973 . |
| 30 | It filled the room , leaving only inches on each side between it and the walls . |