Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was plain to her that her therapist was meticulous , thoughtful and highly trained — it was undeniable — but Scarlet increasingly found all that beside the point because her malaise had not significantly decreased with treatment , and worrying about the cost of it kept her awake at night . |
| 2 | On the first anniversary of that invasion , when thousands of Czechoslovak demonstrators were dispersed on Mr Husak 's orders by the police with military support , he was awarded the Order of Lenin , the highest honour the Russians could give him , and his acceptance of it sealed his fate once and for all Within two years of becoming party leader he purged all but 26 of the central committee members who had been in office before the invasion . |
| 3 | Nor do they hesitate to make use of it to promote their offspring , generally referred to as the zolotyie dietki — or golden youth . |
| 4 | Uncle Philip broke the armour off a pink battalion of shrimps and ate them steadily , chewed through a loaf of bread spread with half a pound of butter and helped himself to the lion 's share of the cake while gazing at her with expressionless satisfaction , apparently deriving a certain pleasure from her discomfort , or even finding that the sight of it improved his appetite . |
| 5 | FROM WHICHEVER direction you approach Mothecombe , whether along the winding wooded valley beside the ever widening River Erme , or down the road from Battisborough Cross and through the clumps of hydrangeas , or by sea around Butcher 's Cove to its sandy bay and up the secret combe strewn with bluebells and daffodils , the first sight of it takes your breath away . |
| 6 | The feel of it plugging his nostrils added to his panic . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I lifted my hair , let it fall , and the weight of it brought my head down to see that Leon had n't moved . |
| 9 | In my own studies of theatre audiences and of book reading habits in the United Kingdom I found , when I began , that there was very little published at all on who goes to the theatre and , while there was more information available on adult reading habits , much of it had its source in America and much of what was available in Britain referred to borrowing from libraries but excluded book buying . |
| 10 | DeFleur , in 1970 , saw a further element in the chain — feedback — which allows the transmitter to adapt his message in order to make it more effective and thus increase the chance of it reaching its destination clearly . |
| 11 | It 's definitely a blues record , and most of it features my own compositions . |
| 12 | There 's no doubt that while the East is fascinating in many ways , most people who write of it overlook its two outstanding features — sand and syphilis , especially the latter , which is very prevalent . |
| 13 | Might not some echo of it reach her mind , so that she would know someone of hers had been near ; that she had not been deserted ? |
| 14 | Having read the article , I admit that aspects of it caused my eyebrows to rise . |
| 15 | When she breast-fed him , which she still did though he was now a year old , the comfort of it made her weep and in weeping she felt happier . |
| 16 | It was the first time she had been alone with him since last night and the thought of it made her fluttery inside . |
| 17 | I could get back to base via that loft … but the thought of it made my scalp wriggle . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 19 | Bones stopped at the gate only because Uncle Bean stood in front of it waving his arms . |
| 20 | Much of it concerned her confidante and co-playwright , Lady Bell . |
| 21 | The monstrous injustice of it took her breath away . |
| 22 | It was much warmer than I thought and I had n't practised taking a drink while running , so most of it missed my mouth . |
| 23 | We demand that it changes , we beg of it to alter our lives , we leave it for two hours and assume it will be different when we get back . |
| 24 | They had seen the knuckles come out of the silken wrapping and the force of it scared their wits back into good manners . |
| 25 | Since Cornerstone works with a memory copy of the information it retrieves , there is no danger of it corrupting its source data . |
| 26 | To reduce the chances of it troubling your seedlings , always use mains water and give occasional waterings with a copper-based fungicide . |
| 27 | ‘ A lot of it found its way to the Irish Republic . ’ |
| 28 | Once , the wind blew her long , pale hair forwards over his shoulder and strands of it caught his face and stroked it , and he could smell the fragrance of her drifting through his body . |
| 29 | ‘ Would it not be better if you were asking us such questions with a beer in front of yourself and the taste of it warming your throat ? |
| 30 | The perusal of it swelled his heart with joy ; he found he had to read it twice , and the pleasure of its proclamation left him flushed from top to toe . |