Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also think it 's important that people have this sort of emotional side of it taught to them as well , you 're often taught like the straight , you know , the wee sperm and the wee egg come together and you get a baby , but you do n't , not taught about the emotional side of it a lot |
| 2 | Squeeze the paper to the ‘ stem ’ and wind some sticky tape round it to secure it . |
| 3 | So if you can not decide what the icon that looks like a milk churn with an overgrown mushroom beside it means you can select it and discover that it means Paste Clipboard contents — oh perhaps it is supposed to be a drawing pin besides a board but you could have fooled me ! |
| 4 | In fact , mahogany had been known in England since Sir Walter Raleigh 's day but it took the French ban for it to become popular . |
| 5 | We estimate that 150000 men aged 60 to 74 would be required in an evaluative trial for it to have an 80% chance of showing a 20% reduction in mortality over the ensuing 10 years , significant at the 5% level . |
| 6 | And she meant it , for she liked her college room , she was even mildly proud of it , and the thought of entertaining Clelia in it did not alarm her , though she had a deep aversion to the notion of entertainment , and had never in her whole three years at University embarked on the ritual tea parties or more ambitious sherry parties that mark the social life of such establishments . |
| 7 | Indeed , the election indicates that it is unpopular among the mass of voters , and the Tories ' clear opposition to it helped their victory . |
| 8 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 9 | Such a perspective does not require a universal pragmatics for it to proceed with an analysis of the form of discourse as ideology . |
| 10 | A fine big one , of oak , with a carved band on it to say ‘ Dominus mecum , dominus sum ’ . ’ |
| 11 | The primitive sound of it stirred something deep inside me as though it were Pan himself , not some Indian labourer , playing those haunting notes on that rude instrument . |
| 12 | The Crown submitted that , even if the defendant 's approach be accepted , the defence could not exclude admissible evidence , even if proper notice of it had not been given , and further argued that Zaidie 's evidence ( confirmed by the defendant ) that an accident was not suggested in the telephone call to him was conclusive when taken with the incontrovertible circumstances of the shooting , thereby suggesting that the ‘ irregularities ’ were not material in the sense that the defence could have profited if they had not occurred . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a film which will be released here soon , a Hitchcock-type thriller called ‘ Doctor Giggles ’ , and we did a remake of an old song for it written by Moon Martin , called Bad Case Of Loving You . |
| 14 | Ah , that 's an old version of it Works . |
| 15 | It 's a funny thing for it to do . |
| 16 | The incident , and his own weak , almost contemptible handling of it came near to making his third premiership seem to himself and others an ill-judged prolongation of power , a disastrous epilogue to the rest of his career . |
| 17 | Alarm clocks were unobtainable , so I had brought one from home , antiquated and enormous , with a bell like a fire-alarm , and I used to lie tense and rigid waiting for it to ring . |
| 18 | They set themselves the task of creating a full-scale replica of it using the original Roman techniques . |
| 19 | Vasquez looked at a large sample of Behaviouralist work in International Relations and found that the vast majority of it worked within these three key assumptions . |
| 20 | Built from the debris of planets , moons and comets , the sphere had originally been designed to completely enclose its star , collecting all the energy it gave out rather than letting the vast majority of it escape away into space . |
| 21 | Her craving for advice with a Thatcherite spin on it does not mean that the Prime Minister will automatically diminish Civil Service contributions as flowing from a tainted source . |
| 22 | The nature of the Church and its tradition were central to the unfinished business from Vatican I ; Modernism and the Roman reaction to it had left serious questions about the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible and about the development of doctrine ; the Liturgical Movement was already revealing both the need for major pastoral renewal and a vision of what its fruits could be , not merely inside the Catholic Church but also in its ecumenical relations . |
| 23 | Among poisonous jellyfish and their relatives the Portuguese man-o'-war ( opposite ) is notorious as a killer , but despite its reputation there is no authenticated record of it having caused a human death . |
| 24 | This is much more than another pretty Japanese coupe for it bristles with tomorrow 's technology . |
| 25 | Tracey had at first pretended not to mind her joining the group ; it was only later that his real bitterness about it emerged . |
| 26 | Though the antarctic ice-cap is estimated to contain 90% of the world 's water , only a tiny fraction of it becomes available each year for living material . |
| 27 | He took it slowly in four-wheel drive , the road much narrower here , the outer edge of it crumbling away . |
| 28 | It was a task that nagged at her , the mere thought of it causing a furrow to crease her normally smooth brow . |
| 29 | The mere thought of it seemed to drag a blanket of depression about her shoulders , causing her to turn away from him and go to the desk . |
| 30 | She sighed , wondering why the mere thought of it made her feel depressed , then she turned to Silas and said hastily , ‘ So there 's no need for you to worry about taking me to see a kiwi . |