Example sentences of "[prep] it [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OH NO , LOOK AT THAT TOO Just when one thinks one 's getting on top of it one finds a bit of a tum . |
| 2 | To make sense of it one would first of all have to distinguish between , and learn to identify , the various kinds of structural constraints which form individuals and social groups into the ‘ supports ’ of the complex whole . |
| 3 | On the face of it one might say that an upstanding , law-abiding trade should have nothing to fear where this is concerned ; they should simply not deal in masterpieces without a provenance . |
| 4 | Indeed , God made of it something more wonderful than anybody could have thought . |
| 5 | She is an example to her children : ‘ do n't end up like this ’ — that is , marrying just for the sake of it someone to whom you are totally unsuited . |
| 6 | The place took on a magical quality for Lewis , who had towards it something of that feeling of the Grand Meaulnes for his lost domain . |
| 7 | There 's also the herb garden , newly opened it 's to sell herb plants and seeds — and behind it something rather more exotic is growing — in the butterfly house … which houses 20 kinds of butterflies and moths in a temperature of eighty degrees . |
| 8 | From this she drew the policy and with it lots of pawn tickets . |
| 9 | It 's ideal for die-hard command line aficionados , and brings with it lots of switches and specifiers . |
| 10 | And towards morning , when the snow turned again to rain , the whole hillside under which they were camped had become furrowed and scoured by a hundred brooks scurrying and leaping downwards into the river valley , till the level of the flood crept up towards their outposts , and its tributaries carried down into it everything movable that came in their way , including some of the hobbled horses , and the wreckage of tents , and drowned men . |
| 11 | Cathy Massiter made it very clear in her television interview that MI5 and Special Branch alone decide who merits a dossier and which group they belong to and can open a file on any person or group of people or organisation they please , put into it anything they like , be it only gossip or hearsay , and once opened the file remains there indefinitely . |
| 12 | From it one could see lights twinkling in the little town below , and fishing-boats with lights at sea . |
| 13 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 14 | It shares many features with other stories found among many peoples : a spirit or evil demon makes a sudden attack on a traveller at night ; the traveller is quite unprepared , and the demon means to kill him ; nevertheless , in the life and death struggle that ensues the traveller manages to get the upper hand , and before the dawn comes and robs the demon of its power , he extorts from it something of its supernatural strength . |
| 15 | If it killed her , she would turn the situation around and gain from it something instructive and valuable ! |
| 16 | To protect ourselves from physical rather than social attack , we must extend that private area and , in times of danger , exclude from it anyone who is not a known friend . |
| 17 | In it one can trace the origin and development of social , political , and philosophical ideas , as well as of taste , fashion , and outlook . |
| 18 | It is a world of twilight and in it something grows … that creature which is the inner you … |
| 19 | Whatever its original purpose may have been , as with any ruin , we must hack from it the thick vegetation which threatens to cut it off from us : to find in it something of significance for ourselves . |
| 20 | The still joy of the mind in its state of non thought has in it something beyond the rational and it defies explanation . |
| 21 | Vision has in it something of the ‘ himma ’ of the sufis . |
| 22 | Instead , it is hospitalised in a museum , to be visited by the public , who pretend to relate to the work as if they recognised in it something of eternal value . |
| 23 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 24 | It presupposes that it is possible , in modern circumstances , using modern tools and resources , to find a way whereby men and women can become more fully integrated into their social environment and find in it something deeply expressive of their own personality and aspirations . |
| 25 | She kissed her husband dutifully , and for a moment Riven saw her and Ratagan exchange a look which had in it something of despair . |
| 26 | His adaptation of Twomey 's words and manner had in it something like the meticulous grace of his dancing to his mother 's music . |
| 27 | Camb had searched that handbag and found in it nothing but make-up and a little money . |
| 28 | What was in it somebody asks you . |
| 29 | Record in it anything you fancy : a new word , a new way of describing a colour , a particular action you saw performed which you 'd like to describe in detail while it 's fresh . |
| 30 | In other words , without it one can not explain why at the present time there is a maldistribution of world wealth and income such that the countries of the Northern hemisphere contain only 25 per cent of the world 's population but obtain 80 per cent of the world 's income , while the countries of the South contain 75 per cent of the world 's population but obtain only 20 per cent of the world 's income . |