Example sentences of "[prep] south [noun prp] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies .
2 He was also said to have pledged support for South Korea if it proved necessary to apply for UN sanctions against the North over the issue of nuclear inspections [ see also p. 38818-19 ] .
3 He had won the biggest-ever majority in this corner of South Wales but it was not enough .
4 Richardson 's widely-quoted comment prior to the historic World Cup encounter against South Africa that it was ‘ just another cricket match
5 It was at a meeting in February 1880 of Emma 's co-workers and tenants in south London that it was decided to take over the Victoria Theatre ( familiarly known as the Old Vic ) in the Waterloo Road , a hitherto dirty and drunken home for melodrama , and turn it into a coffee music hall for purified and teetotal entertainment .
6 Uri Lubrani , co-ordinator of Israeli government activities in Lebanon , stressed in reply that Israel would not exercise the same restraint in south Lebanon that it was showing in the face of Iraqi missile attacks .
7 Most of its clients reside in South Wales but it was considered that the West Midlands would offer an additional source of berth holders .
8 Even more sharply , it is impossible for the majority of people to be other than black in South Africa as it became impossible to be other than Jewish for Jews in Nazi Germany .
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