Example sentences of "it [noun pl] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a view is found in partial form in Calvin , and it surfaces again in the nineteenth century in the thought of both Edward Irving ( who was wrongly convicted for heresy for believing it ) and the great Anglican churchman , F. D. Maurice ( 1805–1872 ) . |
| 2 | He had memorized it years ago in the Ecalpemos epoch : ‘ The safest way to live is first , inherit money , second , be born without taste for liquor , third , have a legitimate job that keeps you busy , fourth , marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities , fifth , join some big church , sixth , do n't live too long . ’ |
| 3 | The important thing , as John Wain was to put it years later in ‘ The Vanishing Critic ’ , looking back wonderingly over a good quarter-century at his own vanished youth , was ‘ to respond to life with one 's emotional priorities in the right order . ’ |
| 4 | I had been to see it years before in a taxi from Roscrea , and had been greatly impressed by the poignant air of haunted melancholy that hung over the ruins . |
| 5 | Indeed Monteverdi produced a classic early example of the strophic-variation solo aria over a marching ostinato he had come near it years before in ‘ Qual honor ’ in Orfeo ( see p. 274 ) — in ‘ Ohime ch'io cado ’ . |
| 6 | It revs cleanly to an amazing 7,500rpm with a racy zing . |
| 7 | Poor Crossley became the laughing stock of a 19,326 crowd when Vinnie Jones overhit a through ball , leaving the Forest No 1 with the seemingly easy task of collecting it yards ahead of the advancing Clarke . |
| 8 | One of them pulled out a revolver aiming it inches away from P C Ray Hall 's nose . |