Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was impossible to avoid each other in such a hectic department , but fortunately the very business of it meant that any and every contact was necessarily fairly brisk . |
| 2 | None of it spilled as Bonanza removed the cigar from his soft lips . |
| 3 | ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’ |
| 4 | She loathed herself for such pettiness , but she was so helplessly without any control over their relationship that pride or all that remained of it demanded that she administer these little pricks to his satisfaction , although she knew she had no hope of succeeding in puncturing it properly . |
| 5 | If the rest of it goes as well then there 's every chance I 'll be forming a permanent group . |
| 6 | most of it written or co-written by him . |
| 7 | It 's like a a rou round disc that screwed on and as that wore at the back you used to just slacken the screw slightly and turn it round until a little bit more of it wore and then you turn it round again until the whole thing was worn down . |
| 8 | Tom read just enough of it to see that it was a long way from West Hampstead and no one he knew had been killed or injured . |
| 9 | This is subject to an overriding provision that nothing in the relevant Rule or in any order or direction of the court made by virtue of it authorises or requires the doing of anything in a country in which service is to be effected which is contrary to the law of that country . |
| 10 | There is , for a start , so much of it to watch and talk about . |
| 11 | The vacuum cleaner , sensing her lack of concentration , took advantage of it to munch and slaver up a long strand of rug fringe : there was a smell of burning rubber . |
| 12 | The underlying principle of configuration control states that it should be possible at any time during the lifetime of a supported product to reconstruct a particular supported version of it to ensure that if a change is agreed and installed , then that change and no other would occur . |
| 13 | Thus there is a clear division between the forehead and the lower part of the face , and a lighter line running down the edge of it suggests that if more of the forehead were seen it would be divided down its central axis . |
| 14 | For any would-be telegenic demagogue , Mr Bruce offers a lot of practical advice , most of it garnered when he was the Tories ' director of communications . |
| 15 | ‘ And should any other prince or captain , Christian or infidel , of whatever law or sect or condition he may be , pretend to any right to these lands and seas , I am ready and prepared to deny him and to defend them in the names of the Kings of Castile present and future , whose is this empire and the dominion of these Indies , islands and mainland , northern and southern , with their seas , in the arctic pole as in the antarctic , on both sides of the equinoctial line , within and without the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn — so that each thing and part of it belong and appertain most completely to Their Highnesses and to their successors , as I declare more at length by writ setting forth all that may be said or can be said and alleged in behalf of their royal patrimony , now and for all time so long as the world shall last until the final universal judgement of all mortals . ' |
| 16 | This suggests that there is still the possibility of it waking and again working . |
| 17 | Some of it misses and there 's suddenly a livid green stain around her mouth and down her front . |
| 18 | None of it worked and Barbara and Ted decided to let life takes its course . |
| 19 | It was only later , after they had become engaged , that he had seemed to change , so slowly at first that she was scarcely even aware of it happening until , one day at a party given by a fellow student , someone , she could n't even remember who , had planted a playful kiss on her cheek . |
| 20 | ‘ There is a reasonable chance of it happening and there is a collective will to support it ’ , Cunningham believes . |
| 21 | I recall the gist of it implied that they could n't sit there sunbathing too long if they wanted to get through all seven tops . |
| 22 | Snow ( 1977 ) and Wells and Robinson ( 1982 ) for reviews ) , almost all of it showing that adults systematically adjust their speech when talking with young children . |
| 23 | A threat expressed in the form ‘ if I catch you when there are no police about ’ addressed to an adversary is not caught by the section , since it is not a threat of such as to cause the victim of it to believe that he will be the object of ‘ immediate ’ violence . |
| 24 | These groups represent a minority opinion , she suggests , and it is up to the NVALA and groups like it to defend and reassert ‘ traditional ’ values before humanism takes a grip of society generally , rather than just at the BBC where it is viewed as already having a stranglehold . |
| 25 | so , if , if , if they 're all four of them coming er and she says about going in for a meal I shall say oh well if you feel like it go and do that then and come for your tea I mean it 's just putting them round table is n't it ? |
| 26 | It looks like it see cos they 're not actually sent out from here they 're |
| 27 | Underneath it says when she was born . |
| 28 | Lot seventy does not have a horn with it but Lot ninety two , the good news is it does have a reproducer er Lot one hundred and eleven should have a black dot against it to indicate that it will be removed from the premises if not cleared within the stated time Lot one seven four is withdrawn one nine one the estimate should read eight to twelve hundred and finally Lot one nine eight is withdrawn . |
| 29 | The weight of development money from such a vast army of different interests behind it mean that it will dominate what used to be known as the data processing department however much the purists suck their teeth in fastidious disdain . |
| 30 | She would n't have been surprised to see the wall behind it char and burn . |