Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The management committee will meet and it will divide the money into two and give each one however much the management committee feels that it should have and that management committee need not meet again for twelve months because there will be nothing for it to do .
2 There was nothing for it to work on .
3 There is nothing inherently blippy or noisy about that bit pattern Nothing about it tells you that it will have that effect on the loudspeaker .
4 Tom thought this a ridiculous reason for doing something ( or not doing something ) , because a person who knew nothing about it asked you .
5 The fact that he could do nothing about it made Burun 's enjoyment of the situation all the sweeter .
6 The Body being thus equipp 'd and laid in the Coffin ( which Coffin is sometimes very magnificent ) , it is visited a second time to see that it is bury 'd in Flannel , and that nothing about it sowed with Thread .
7 Nothing about it disconcerted him ; its messiness , its smell , the most bizarre of its trappings .
8 To come upon someone with it curling all over his face is astonishing enough to overlook at first a certain glassiness to his left eye — until , that is , he absent-mindedly lets it fall to dangle from its string .
9 So I think he 'd better roll his sleeves even higher and start repairing the damage , plenty of it caused by his own hastiness .
10 It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity .
11 Well up in Scotland of course we do n't need to save our rain water we get plenty of it coming from the unclear , but er one thing I would say would be that erm if we have a warm spell and the sun is beating on a bitumen roof and then of course suddenly a shower and that er goes into the water bucket or water barrel then it does give you maybe you know a few problems .
12 All I 'm saying is that we do n't have to go groping about in corners looking for motive , there 's plenty of it lying about .
13 Nothing like it had ever happened at UNACO .
14 Nothing like it had happened before , nothing like it has happened since , ’ he said .
15 Nothing like it had happened before , nothing like it has happened since .
16 Nearly everyone is still troubled by the memory of what happened , and all hope nothing like it happens again .
17 Nothing like it has been seen since — well , since the Nanking Cargo was unloaded at Christie 's in April 1986 .
18 Nothing like it has ever been done before . ’
19 ‘ Nothing like it had happened before , nothing like it has happened since , ’ he said .
20 ‘ Nothing like it had happened before , nothing like it has happened since .
21 Probably nothing like it has happened since America was hoodwinked by the Orson Welles 1938 radio play based on H.G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds .
22 None of it brought any response from him .
23 None of it spilled as Bonanza removed the cigar from his soft lips .
24 He tried to pretend that none of it mattered , could half convince himself .
25 None of it mattered in the least . ’
26 And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going .
27 The laughter , the irritation , of the rest of the team who were unloading while he wasted time — none of it mattered .
28 None of it hung together .
29 None of it goes on salaries or administration because all of that is covered by sponsorship or by the interest on banked money .
30 And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going .
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