Example sentences of "it [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aphrosyne is my real name , but people over here find it rather a mouthful — like the Greek part of my surname . |
| 2 | Is n't it rather a waste of all we feel to ignore it ? |
| 3 | You may recall that this committee has asked for a health and housing conference but we seem to get under it rather a lot of times , nothing it appears to be happening . |
| 4 | Assertion comes into being when you still bring the conversation back this is what I want nothing else will do , and bringing it right the way back all the time to discuss what it is why it 's called a broken record exercise , we 'll give it a quick go now . |
| 5 | You go round that corner not off that way towards the wards just go from the desk right round the corner and follow it right the way down as far as you can go . |
| 6 | Th the mower 's out the shed , can you fetch it right the way over here then please ? |
| 7 | Dropped a tile and it pierced it right the way through . |
| 8 | ‘ He said he 'd read it somewhere a couple of years ago , and it had struck him so deeply that he could n't shake it from his mind . |
| 9 | Just keep it Well put it somewhere a bit safer than that . |
| 10 | He successfully invaded Sudan to the south in 1820 , making it effectively a colony , and in some eyes even a part of Egypt . |
| 11 | They told me that no one had ever been hurt like this ; but was n't it only a question of time ? |
| 12 | Is it only a fortnight ago , Dorothea asked herself in amazement ? |
| 13 | ‘ Sam 's going to a new school , ’ Bella said , and time was oddly foreshortened in Albert 's head so that two or three minutes of silence passed between them and he thought it only a second . |
| 14 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 15 | Is it only a paper tiger , or does it really have teeth ? |
| 16 | Was it only a desire for conquest ? |
| 17 | I saw him use it only a week ago . ’ |
| 18 | • Decide on the space that is wholly yours , even if it only a table somewhere . |
| 19 | Nor is it only a matter of government consulting people about what it proposes to do . |
| 20 | The other factor against a return was that I reckoned it only a matter of time before they stopped being DINKS ( double income , no kids ) and became WHANnies ( ‘ We have a Nanny ’ ) . |
| 21 | Nor is it only an influx into London . |
| 22 | Or was it only the storm ? |
| 23 | Is it only the recession that makes so many people , especially the young , talk so much about their job prospects ? |
| 24 | We 're certainly paying , I , I , I think it 's capital receipts , is it off , is it only the capital receipts on the interest . |
| 25 | ‘ Was it only the meal , Sam ? ’ |
| 26 | No I hope it stays like this , is it gon na stay like this all day or is it only the morning ? |
| 27 | Cos you have to have it so the gas so high , it must be really boiling hot and you just stir fry the vegetables all round this |
| 28 | You have a half of it so the whole of it . |
| 29 | Kindly note these things are ambidextrous , they do n't care which way round they go , but I 'd recommend you organise it so the pad is actually resting on the cover , not on the rest of the paper in the binder , because it will make it a bit sturdier to use . |
| 30 | Instead , you can add some more to it so the dog will not feel threatened by your presence nearby , and indeed will come to welcome it . |