Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it [conj] " 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 | I was a bit depressed about it and nearly did n't sent it off . |
| 3 | ‘ They are depressed about it and it is now a question of loss adjustors and insurance . |
| 4 | Chauveau added : ‘ I know Peterborough are very upset about it but it does n't change the fact that one moron behind the goal ruined it for everybody . ’ |
| 5 | We were much more upset about it than the Indians were . |
| 6 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 7 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I am sorry for it but there is nothing I can do . |
| 9 | Looking up , she saw her old mistress understood perfectly her misery and confusion and was sorry for it but there was also an air of what looked remarkably like satisfaction about her . |
| 10 | The child of one of her lodgers died in her house in April of an undiagnosed heart complaint — the tiny thing 's heart simply stopped as it lay in its cot — and though she was sorry for it and sympathetic to the last degree she was aware that inside herself she shrugged and felt none of the horror and distress such an event would once have caused her . |
| 11 | At home I might have fed it to the fish , but here I felt sorry for it and watched until it was time to move on . |
| 12 | It was a fearsome beast in a way although I felt sorry for it when Murchison was going to kill it . |
| 13 | O.K. , I know it 's a miracle , yes , I 'd be grateful for it if I were dead . |
| 14 | The time you have to carry this out naturally depends upon the actual load you put on the batteries , that is , how much gear you have hanging off it and the total power consumption of this hardware . |
| 15 | ‘ United have certainly lost a lot of money and next to United , there is no one more sorry about it than us . ’ |
| 16 | I 'm sorry about it because you know , how I feel about the medical profession and the nursing |
| 17 | And give a reasonable explanation or be pleasant about it and |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I felt very guilty about it but this guilt was not very productive . |
| 20 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I do n't like to be hypocritical about it but in fact I have n't any choice . ’ |
| 24 | The Fawcett family were very brave about it when the telegram came from the War Office . |
| 25 | Now it had arrived and still Sally knew she was no more prepared for it than she had ever been . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | You know which I I i wa , I was n't totally embarrassed about it but I just we , I think she was , you know , that sort of generation and that era , which I hope with my son it will be totally different , like come to me and say anything you like , you know ? |
| 29 | From my point of view , if someone was totally pissed and just got off with you and really embarrassed about it and thought , you know , oh my God how could I go for her I think that 's , do you think that 's worse than them saying , than it being a bit of a joke ? |
| 30 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |