Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 2 | The fire-ball of anger inside her had flared into life , and she had flown at him , screaming — what , she could hardly remember , except that more than half of it had been in Greek . |
| 3 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 4 | And getting half of it chucked back because it 's not clean enough . |
| 5 | He bit through the frond ; half of it fell onto the floor . |
| 6 | Man 's nature was two-sided , only half of it led to wrong-doing , the other half prohibited sin . |
| 7 | The sort of gesture that might , reasonably , allow a chap to knock over a bottle of wine and make sure at least half of it got all over Donald 's plate . |
| 8 | Some £3 million , half of it provided by the European Community habitats committee , is to be spent to prevent the Redgrave and Lopham Fen , near Diss in Norfolk , from drying out . |
| 9 | They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies . |
| 10 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 11 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 12 | Over £60,000 was in the king 's Treasury in November 1326 , but some of this was spent paying off the force of Hainault mercenaries which Isabella had recruited for her invasion in 1326 ; some of it was simply appropriated by Mortimer and Isabella for their personal use , and some of it had to be used to finance the war against the Scots which was renewed in the summer of 1327 . |
| 13 | Some of it had come quickly ; Eliot knew the verse was right , and left it alone . |
| 14 | Most of the building was old and was covered in dark green ivy , but some of it had been built more recently and was of grim , black stone . |
| 15 | ‘ Some of it had to be my fault . |
| 16 | Remnants were found in the throat and gullet , as some of it had been swallowed . |
| 17 | ‘ My father discovered some of it had been stolen , even though he was still being sent a bill each month to cover storage , ’ said Cooper . |
| 18 | Every now and again some of it fell off , sometimes on to the lane , often on to the nomes stumbling along it . |
| 19 | Most of the woodwork on the landing and the top of the stairs is charred — some of it burnt to nothing . |
| 20 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 21 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 22 | There was a stack of crumpled brown paper , some of it addressed to herself and to Edward or Louise and bearing injunctions about not opening before Christmas ; she recognised the handwriting of aunts and godmothers . |
| 23 | Her aim , intended to catch him full in the face with the boiling liquid , was inhibited by the way he was holding her , but some of it splashed his cheek . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of it seemed to cross into the Aids field , which had nothing to do with his brief at the Royal Free . ’ |
| 25 | A special unit set up to track down the missing money has now traced around three hundred million pounds — but there could still be a long legal battle to get some of it returned . |
| 26 | Following the opening of the Gloucester-Berkely canal in 1827 , large amounts of grain were transhipped at Gloucester and some of it sent via the Stroudwater Canal to his mills in the Stroud area . |
| 27 | Some of it spilled inadvertently on the nearest congregation , particularly Carmella and Joey . |
| 28 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |
| 29 | Thus we are accumulating in our local rubbish dumps tons of baby excreta , some of it infected , which sooner or later will dribble into our water supply . |
| 30 | Naturally the more challenging the holiday the higher the price , especially if the reward for six hours in the saddle — with perhaps some of it spent in the rain — is a hot bath and the creature comforts of at least a hotel . |