Example sentences of "[prep] it [conj] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Government 's Homeswap Scheme is designed to help council and Housing Association tenants exchange properties but so few people seem aware of it that it hardly works . |
| 2 | That should have been the end of it but it most certainly was not . |
| 3 | However , with all these reservations and qualifications noted there is a city called Tyneside and in 1989 North Shields is part of it as it always has been and Cramlington is as it has been since the early 1970s . |
| 4 | What sort of feeling will you associate with it when it is–only a memory from the past ? |
| 5 | Chemotherapy does not work with it and it rapidly spreads through the system . |
| 6 | Nine times out of ten you will not be paid for this advice , but do take the call and deal with it because it rapidly establishes your credibility with the CAB and will prove fruitful in the future . |
| 7 | Everything he does he throws his heart and soul into it and it just completely destroyed his confidence . ’ |
| 8 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 9 | If regression can find the reason for the initial onset of the phobia — that first , frightening occasion — it may not be sufficient to put an end to it but it certainly stops the sufferer feeling that he is simply being ‘ weak ’ and ‘ foolish ’ or ( as one of my patients put it ) that he is ‘ going out of his mind ’ . |
| 10 | If the everyday , as Lefebvre defines it , is ‘ whatever remains after one has eliminated all specialized activity ’ , then it is important to acknowledge television as most characteristically a part of the everyday ( an everyday which , Lefebvre argues , is a historically limited phenomenon ) , characteristically occupying everyday time and only on ‘ special ’ occasions occupying ‘ special ’ time set aside for it and it alone . |
| 11 | It , it is a form of an obsession and it is an excitement and there 's a warmth and there 's a funniness about it and it just wonderful , better being in love than not being in love surely . |
| 12 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 13 | In England a debutante of 1957 , Anne Browning , looked back on her season in Dance Little Lady in similar terms : ‘ If there was sex in the bushes , no one knew about it and it certainly was n't the accepted thing . |
| 14 | Some obscure threat needled her ; Jezrael could n't stop worrying at it but it never burst into knowledge . |
| 15 | ‘ Play Kylie or Jason at it and it soon dies of boredom . |
| 16 | He tugged and pulled at it until it eventually moved over his nose and ears , causing his hair to spring up in all directions like soft wire . |