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

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1 11.2.2 where the Signage of 11.2.1 can not be removed or destroyed painting or otherwise covering from sight all signage incurring any of the Trade Marks in so far at least as it relates to the Trade Marks ,
2 The fire-ball of anger inside her had flared into life , and she had flown at him , screaming — what , she could hardly remember , except that more than half of it had been in Greek .
3 His reputation was such , however , that a photographer from the New York Times arrived and another member of the audience was so overwhelmed by the occasion that she described Eliot 's face as " that of an archangel who has too much work to do , and so does only half of it leaving the rest to the North Wind " .
4 The food — chicken , brochettes , couscous — comes on a plate and half of it stays there .
5 When I reached the turn I found half of it gone already .
6 The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care .
7 Half of it remains to be saved .
8 " Well , half of it does . "
9 And getting half of it chucked back because it 's not clean enough .
10 When you join the company there 's so many J S words , I mean you just , you just , I mean half of it goes over your head , I mean it 's get that go get that out of the buffer room .
11 What you do is you make one half of it finance the other .
12 He bit through the frond ; half of it fell onto the floor .
13 Man 's nature was two-sided , only half of it led to wrong-doing , the other half prohibited sin .
14 The sort of gesture that might , reasonably , allow a chap to knock over a bottle of wine and make sure at least half of it got all over Donald 's plate .
15 Baker said on Sept. 10 that $12,000 million was to be provided by Saudi Arabia , the UAE and the Kuwaiti government , half of it to defray the costs of foreign forces , and half to assist Egypt and Turkey [ see below , but also p. 37728 for Saudi measures against Jordan , the other state most seriously affected by the economic impact of the Gulf crisis ] .
16 They 're quite fun and I 've quite a lot of that up , and I 've got another board on , half of it 's and half of it sleep .
17 Yeah there 's half of it left .
18 The administration of his estate took 22s. 8d. of this , half of it going on fees , plus 2s. to the pardoner for letters of pardon and 5d. to the summoner .
19 Yes well er if it 's a joint account and the income 's i i if it 's a joint account and the income 's generated from that account , then er it will be er treated as one going to the taxpayer , er you know , half of it going to the taxpayer , half of it going to the non-taxpayer .
20 Yes well er if it 's a joint account and the income 's i i if it 's a joint account and the income 's generated from that account , then er it will be er treated as one going to the taxpayer , er you know , half of it going to the taxpayer , half of it going to the non-taxpayer .
21 Some £3 million , half of it provided by the European Community habitats committee , is to be spent to prevent the Redgrave and Lopham Fen , near Diss in Norfolk , from drying out .
22 For example can we continue burning fossil fuel and will half of it continue to be absorbed by the ocean or is the ocean reaching saturation such that these equilibrium terms are being reached and future increases in C O two will be reflected in atmospheric build up , and it 's only atmospheric C O two that contributes to the greenhouse effect .
23 it does when you do n't know where half of it 's gone
24 You just want a quick glance at it to see what she , oh well half of it 's saved and then a bit more than a quarter .
25 If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations .
26 They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies .
27 There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p .
28 Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of .
29 Over £60,000 was in the king 's Treasury in November 1326 , but some of this was spent paying off the force of Hainault mercenaries which Isabella had recruited for her invasion in 1326 ; some of it was simply appropriated by Mortimer and Isabella for their personal use , and some of it had to be used to finance the war against the Scots which was renewed in the summer of 1327 .
30 Some of it had come quickly ; Eliot knew the verse was right , and left it alone .
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