Example sentences of "[prep] it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 2 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 3 | It has n't been the most memorable of summers : let's hope the autumn brings more positive energy ( and not all of it chemically induced ) |
| 4 | Mrs Frizzell digested this truth , and the import of it slowly became clear to her . |
| 5 | But then , with Matilda concentrating fiercely , one end of it slowly lifted up about an inch off the table-top . |
| 6 | This was fair comment at the time ; some of it doubtless justified . |
| 7 | Yet by embarking on these difficult waters we are confronting what religion really is , not a safe cardboard version of it neatly packaged up for general retail . |
| 8 | Is any of it double glazed ? |
| 9 | Martin pressed himself back into the burial plot , his fear of it temporarily forgotten in the face of this new terror . |
| 10 | MUCH has been said in the Steam Railway press about the financial and management trouble of the ‘ Mid-Hants Railway ’ , some of it even forecasting the forthcoming demise of the Watercress Line . |
| 11 | Of course , once you release a wild bird , however well you 've trained it , you do run the risk of it just flying away . |
| 12 | And in the middle of that , they thought that perhaps an ornamental lighting column with sort of , with lights coming out from the top of it just to make it a bit more fancy . |
| 13 | Much of it just fails to scan correctly — very odd for someone who was lecturing and giving tutorials on English poetry . |
| 14 | And there is a car with a blue light on the top of it just going through a gate in the fence . |
| 15 | There was no need to tell Mrs Blakey everything because so much of it just did n't make sense . |
| 16 | Once the decision ‘ matures into validity ’ as it were , acts already done in execution of it also mature into legality because maturity is retrospective . |
| 17 | Some of it also goes on several splendid , wonderful , much-admired council newspapers . |
| 18 | This is a campaign booklet which I prepared for the RCN 's Association of Nursing Students in 1985 ; much of it also applies to returning nurses . |
| 19 | The booklet has been written for permanently appointed people in the ES but people on temporary appointments will find much of it also applies to them . |
| 20 | Later on in life those same children may be expected to regard that Bible with such reverence , that the placing of a hand on a copy of it automatically makes their obligation to tell the truth more compelling . |
| 21 | His head was like a dustbin , with all sorts of rubbish mingling in it , and all of it eventually spewing out of his mouth . |
| 22 | The giant clam ( Tridacna ) of modern reefs is a familiar living goliath , but reports of it greedily trapping divers are legends of dubious veracity . |
| 23 | In fact some of it already had . |
| 24 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
| 25 | Soon Maggie held a golden ball of thread and St Margaret had one end of it firmly attached to her finger . |
| 26 | Friedman has always had a special insight into certain areas of the repertoire ( some of it surely gathered from his great teacher Max Rostal , who died 18 months ago , and whose achievement was to some extent being celebrated in these recitals ) . |
| 27 | Within the developed street network , the evidence indicates a surprisingly wide range of buildings and a marked level of architectural pretension , though most of it clearly belongs in a third- or fourth-century context . |
| 28 | Those assumptions could no longer be made by Mr Crosland 's Commission , although one or two members of it plainly wished that they could . |
| 29 | The intervention is extraordinary , and to think of it otherwise risks ignoring how the interest of the play lies in the psychological , in the testing of our sympathy and understanding of the Macbeths . |
| 30 | At his death Burghley 's silver and gold plate was worth £14,000–£15,000 ; much of it probably came from gifts made by aspirants for favour . |