Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heath was apprehensive about it as he forced the Stormont government to resign and ended the parliament of Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | We were much more upset about it than the Indians were . |
| 3 | It was a fearsome beast in a way although I felt sorry for it when Murchison was going to kill it . |
| 4 | O.K. , I know it 's a miracle , yes , I 'd be grateful for it if I were dead . |
| 5 | ‘ United have certainly lost a lot of money and next to United , there is no one more sorry about it than us . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm sorry about it because you know , how I feel about the medical profession and the nursing |
| 7 | Rory McShane , for Newry and Mourne Council , said Mrs Trainor 's daughter noticed something rather strange about it when she started to eat the soup . |
| 8 | More like a volcano erupting than a steam engine blowing its top , Nick always said , but he was touchy about it because it made him sick the first time . |
| 9 | Everyone at Didcot , myself included , are truly elated about it because we 're in the business of winning , Nigel 's a winner ; if we can provide him with the right technical equipment next year , I 'm sure he 'll win a number of races and indeed his ambition and our objective jointly is to win a driver 's , a world championship driver 's title before he retires . |
| 10 | The Fawcett family were very brave about it when the telegram came from the War Office . |
| 11 | Now it had arrived and still Sally knew she was no more prepared for it than she had ever been . |
| 12 | And if we look at it from that standpoint I think we can begin to see , perhaps , that actually we 're all programmers , some of us less clear about it than others . |
| 13 | What ‘ science ’ demands is a very open question , and we need to be as clear about it as we can before broaching the claims of ‘ Understanding ’ in the next chapter . |
| 14 | perhaps been a little bit dismissive of it because |
| 15 | Again , there is nothing wrong with it except that it is " do as I say " and not " let's find out what is right for you " . |
| 16 | There was nothing wrong with it except that she doubted it was true and was certain Holly was showing it to Maureen for approval . |
| 17 | Right , that 's it , that 'll do , I wo n't go any further and I can get the other things in well we had er , we had an aluminium friend , a double glazed enormous window over our landing and it was , the aluminium was so cold and it was conden there was so much condensation that we had a new window P V C put in , but I tried to sell this other window , cos it was beautiful you see , nothing wrong with it except you know , but nobody wanted it and I kept it and I had it for about two years standing outside and then I thought I can use that and I cut , it was a three section , three lots of glass all in one , cut down , divide it into two and one , and got myself a plant house under the erm |
| 18 | nothing to be nothing wrong with it than that you did n't tell them and there might be something wrong with it . |
| 19 | Well that 's interesting because we were wondering who we could get to have a look at our lawns and tell what 's wrong with it because they are not very good are they ? |
| 20 | Some of them may be less careful with it than others so we need machines that can take a battering . |
| 21 | Diodorus ' sources were less interested in it than in Sicily , as was Diodorus himself : he gives the Roman consuls and even some episodes of Roman history like the Decemvirate , but does not help much with the Greek cities which are our present concern . |
| 22 | I went into dyslexia because when I did that course we had the opportunity to do a special study of a subject of our own choice and I spent a lot of time on dyslexia because I was already interested in it before I started . |
| 23 | Sometimes I think I grew interested in it because it was the only common ground we had . ’ |
| 24 | Among young people , women seem to be more prone to it than men , while research shows that sufferers are generally of slim build and underweight . |
| 25 | Er now these are more important asked about so I think we should be very clear on it before er we reduce spending . |
| 26 | You can be bored about it when you type the tape . |
| 27 | yeah , so Ivan said to me , he said er he said well I do I suppose you have noticed he said but whenever she comes down here he said the whole line stops I said I quite agree I said well let's be honest about it if he 's knocking out the meat he , it 's got ta stop cos he stops |
| 28 | Father Reynard too began a prayer and was half-way through it when the crossbow quarrel hit him full in the chest , ripping open skin , bone and muscle . |
| 29 | ‘ We are not getting paranoid about it because the only difference is that the keeper ca n't pick the ball up . |
| 30 | He is obviously serious about it as he also has a 1926 3 litre Bentley which he is upgrading to 4.5 to race . |