Example sentences of "[prep] it [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People so we 're we 'll almost as if it 's like a lady and look after it so that it wo n't get old and have nasty sneezes , that sort of idea . |
| 2 | i i i in a sense it is a , it is a shift to the left because under the May the fourth directive erm rich peasants in particular would 've been left out of it altogether and there would still be some landlords who were , who would maintain their property but , but now he 's shifted to the left and this , this does represent a further attack on landlords cos , cos everybody comes down to the same level . |
| 3 | Penelope Huntley let go of it anxiously and said no , that it was perfectly fine , she 'd just been cold outside . |
| 4 | He was cut out of it completely and he might be prepared to talk . ’ |
| 5 | This is that industrial output increased four-fold over the eighteenth century , home consumption of it three-fold and exports six-fold . |
| 6 | The point is to upgrade such a machine you would be throwing most of it away and having to buy replacements for nearly everything . |
| 7 | Some movement , the barely audible sound of a door opening and closing , then the monkey 's body clock got the better of it again and it fell asleep . |
| 8 | The children baited her into further wrath until , just as suddenly , she would snap out of it again and return to her former , demure self . |
| 9 | ‘ And you thought of it again when Grágás was lost , ’ Lulach said . |
| 10 | My father did n't think of it again till this German visited the shop and showed him an illustration . |
| 11 | The autocratic old Frenchman came out of it badly and he did not like it . |
| 12 | Charity relieved him of it carefully and set about the operation with skill and familiarity . |
| 13 | At this point I feel bound to say that the nickel-cadmium re-chargeable batteries are not environment friendly , and when you buy a cordless product it is your responsibility to dispose of it carefully when it is fully spent . |
| 14 | You do n't want it you 've got to get rid of it somewhere so you turn it to heat , and there 's , every time you , whenever you 're braking you 're turning some of your kinetic into heat . |
| 15 | A newly-wed husband legally acquired all his wife 's real and personal property , and he could dispose of it exactly as he thought fit . |
| 16 | The policy-making process is like the design of a building for a specific occupant by an architects the implementation process affects policy design quite early on and will continue to influence some details of it even after implementation has begun , just as modifications are made to buildings after occupancy . |
| 17 | There is an organization , the Norwegians laid the bones of it even before Oslo fell . |
| 18 | ( He was n't really lying — they did often think of it even if they did n't get down to it . ) |
| 19 | When speaker A in extract ( 1 ) says ‘ Yes , it 's an enormous problem ’ , speaker B does not have trouble understanding the reference of it even though this is not spelt out ; nor is he perplexed by the use of yes followed by a totally different point . |
| 20 | I said yes , but filling all my early evenings with this would prove rather inconvenient on those occasions when I wanted to go out , so we agreed a system whereby I would do some of the work first thing in the morning and the rest of it just after I closed down the switchboard . |
| 21 | There 's most flames coming out of it just before you called them . |
| 22 | He memorized pages of it just because he loved it and often recited his favourite bits to himself on those inevitable odd moments of waiting about in queues and so on . |
| 23 | It makes us look impressive , which we are n't because we did n't know the half of it either and had to look it all up . |
| 24 | When I think of it nowadays and I see children so very going round to the various churches that when people used to say about ministers well . |
| 25 | But you must have thought of it already when you invited me up here . |
| 26 | I think Petula and I covered most of it shortly after we moved down here , stopping off overnight at inns to break the journey . ’ |
| 27 | Nonsense can never be talked with impunity by anyone ; and when governments solemnly talk nonsense in the name of nations , harm is certain to come of it sooner or later . |
| 28 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 29 | It can be argued , to the contrary , that the more the courts are opened up to arguments based about the interests of the public or of significant sections of it rather than of particular individuals , the more likely are the judges to be drawn into political battles which ought to be resolved in the political arena and not in courts . |
| 30 | But maybe you can educate people out of it rather than ban ? |