Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | oh , give me that I 'll have a bit of it thank you |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm keeping my fingers crossed that I might get a bit of it to strengthen the squad . ’ |
| 3 | I understand there 's quite a bit of it going around . ’ |
| 4 | A bit of it has rotted now though . |
| 5 | Maybe this song will catch on , but I think Deano needs to buck up a bit for it to get sung some more . |
| 6 | I can understand it cos I , I , when I 'm feeling a bit down it gets to me , you know I think oh God |
| 7 | Laura , knowing how much this vehicle meant to Bernard , had a miniature of it made for her husband , which he kept in his office . |
| 8 | Similar to other villages in the area in most respects , a part of it has acquired a semi-industrial facade because of its proximity to the main highway . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the Pisans had carried off their booty and used a part of it to start the rebuilding of the cathedral , as an inscription in it still records . |
| 10 | I got the tonight I 've er I 've got erm the baby seat done today sort of like a baby seat in the back so I wait until I get really lumbered like , you know , cos er , if you have the then you can take it back after it 's born and er , get a refund on it get all the money back . |
| 11 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 12 | It was a biting cold that almost turned the pleasure of the riding into a chore , or a want for it to end . |
| 13 | In my letter of 1st August 1990 I mentioned the request of the Parish Council ‘ for an extra swing of a kind that is suitable for toddlers , i.e. one with a rail round it to stop the child falling off the seat . ’ |
| 14 | Oh well he said he he said he 'd have to have a look at it did n't he ? |
| 15 | It was broken already so I glued it up , just had a look at it see how I could get it , its broken it again . |
| 16 | His fair hair was parted on one side , and a lock of it fell across his forehead . |
| 17 | His ink drawing of the parsonage ( and the church with its tower across the road ) and a photograph of it show a large , long , impressive building on two floors , the front door surrounded by thirteen windows . |
| 18 | ‘ When we gave planning permission to the new Chelsea development we attached a condition to it preventing ground-sharing . |
| 19 | The fact that he wore a hat with a daffodil in it helped in this respect , he felt . |
| 20 | A study of it leads us to witness a text 's position within the social and cultural climate from which it emerged , and with which it negotiates . |
| 21 | There was a chapter in it titled ‘ So You Think You 're Chekhov ’ . |
| 22 | It was , in fact , the work of his son , William , and Miller comments ‘ I was first favoured by this sort by Mr. Peter Collinson , FRS and afterwards received a plant with a drawing of it made in the country where it grows , by Mr. John Bartram , JR , and have since been furnished with more plants by Dr. Benzel of Germantown in Philadelphia , who found it growing plentifully in shady , moist places . ’ |
| 23 | There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know . |
| 24 | A search beyond it failed to locate any continuance of Fleming 's Vein ( it was often called Thriddle V. ) and it became considered that Fleming 's was best regarded as a continuance of the Bonsor but shifted by the movement along the fault . |
| 25 | It stuck out of a patch of sand , jutting at a steep angle , about a metre and a half of it exposed . |
| 26 | At that moment , a car drove up and a gunman in it sprayed the boys with a machine-gun . |
| 27 | A plan of it had appeared in the Architects ' Journal the previous Friday , and it also appeared in The Times the morning after the Prince 's speech . |
| 28 | Obviously throwing a bucket of water over them is n't going to do a lot of good , so if there is a likelihood of it happening , you 'll need to be prepared . |
| 29 | The tale he told journalist Gerard Garrett was that Brando would n't hit him hard enough in a scene for it to look real . |
| 30 | The IRA slaughtered a girl 's pet sheep and stuffed a bomb into it aimed for her father , a part-time soldier . |