Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adj] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE toy of the moment this Christmas may cost a small fortune but when the kids get bored with it , you 're left with more junk . |
| 2 | Inside the gates it is flanked by colonnades and the principal buildings lie adjacent to it . |
| 3 | The principle seems to be that the closer the potential person approaches its realisation and the fewer the remaining hurdles to surmount , the more attributes of the actual person seem proper to it . |
| 4 | Farmers become dependent on it for inputs and new techniques of cultivation and husbandry . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 7 | ‘ We have had a few of our delivery men have missed the time by just two or three minutes but as people get used to it things should improve , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 8 | It is also more toxic , and from an early stage a further disadvantage gradually became apparent : tubercle bacilli become resistant to it remarkably quickly . |
| 9 | It is the Housing Executive 's responsibility to determine how it spends the funds that the Government make available to it . |
| 10 | Believe me temps get used to it . |
| 11 | Hundreds of children go blind from it every year . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ May their blood turn to whiskey so one hundred thousand fleas get drunk on it and dance mazurkas in their navels . ’ |
| 13 | Sex is possible , too , during menstruation ; many women feel disinclined towards it at this time of the month , but some feel their strongest desires during the menstrual period . |
| 14 | There 's a CP freight train due behind it but I got Sudbury in time and it is n't leaving there . |