Example sentences of "it [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I mean , as long as it , as long as it kind of they know that it might change slightly after eleven . |
| 2 | ‘ And was n't it kind of them to leave the things to Anne and myself and the nice messages ? ’ |
| 3 | Everybody gets phone calls like that , unfortunately occasionally , but it kind of I went through a phase of it happening to me so I therefore had to change my phone number because it was er it was really unpleasant being woken er up by these calls . |
| 4 | TRANSDUCTION : Some bacterial viruses ( bacteriophages ) , after they have infected an E. coli cell , combine with some of their host 's DNA and make it part of themselves . |
| 5 | The government estimates that at least 10,000 people will be prohibited from political activity — such individuals will also be prevented from speaking or writing on controversial issues unless the council deems it part of their job . |
| 6 | The community planner was also aware that conflict probably did exist behind the prominence of what she perceived to be middle class agitation , but did not consider it part of her brief actively to encourage alliances that were not already formed . |
| 7 | Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ . |
| 8 | The point , however , we wish to make here is that , from whatever source the teachers are drawn , their work with adult students should be regarded as university work ; the Professor of English should make it part of his duties to keep in close touch with them , periodical meetings of the tutors and the Professor , for the interchange of ideas and the discussion of problems should be held — in short that the extension and tutorial classes should be regarded as an integral part of the English Department . |
| 9 | Do Goneril and Regan take this coldness from their father , is it part of his ‘ evil ’ personality just as Cordelia was part of his ‘ good ’ ? |
| 10 | President Bush had made it part of his re-election campaign to attacked the alleged incompetence and corruption of the Democrat-controlled Congress , which he blamed for the shortcomings of the Republican administration . |
| 11 | How can we enter into this happiness and make it part of our lives ? |
| 12 | It 's just a short walk from the Jorvik Centre , so make it part of your visit to historic York . |
| 13 | When you wash your hair make it part of your routine to gently massage your scalp using the soft pads of your finger tips in circular movements . |
| 14 | ‘ And was it part of my father 's plan that you make love to me to convince me that marriage to Jonathan was the wrong thing ? ’ she said angrily . |
| 15 | ‘ I consider it part of my job to know everything about everybody , ’ Mandy muttered abstractedly . |
| 16 | Was it guidance from your Higher Self ? |
| 17 | He might be a dead loss but he 's still her husband and that makes it adultery in my book , and in the eyes of the Church . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ By the way , was it daylight in your dream ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The English generals , ’ he replied , ‘ had the body dressed and embalmed after Flodden and sent it south for our King to view . ’ |
| 20 | Also , it sort of there 's something wrong with it logically . |
| 21 | I would n't say it encourages you but it sort of you know you 're going to get away with it . |
| 22 | And then it sort of you , you lost your track slightly with the referral side |
| 23 | Did it as they want it sort of you know ? |
| 24 | Were it face-on to us , I suppose that binoculars would show the spiral ; it is a great pity that it is placed at such an unfavourable angle . |
| 25 | He watched it head towards him . |
| 26 | Charles of France might shrink from fomenting a direct war , but he would be glad to use every oblique weapon against the upstart king who had deposed his son-in-law , and sent his little widowed daughter back in clumsy state , but without her dowry , which had been fed of necessity into King Henry 's treasury to keep it solvent during his first year of kingship . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was due to the increasingly introspective searching which resulted from the Vietnam experience , or it spite of it , that a full quarter century passed before the Technicolour version of December 7 , 1941 , was brought to the wide screen . |
| 28 | ‘ Was it news to them ? ’ |
| 29 | Besides , he would only make it grist to his mill . |
| 30 | Socialism was not pacifism , neither was it Fabianism with its ‘ superior person ’ bureaucratic tyranny and government by experts policy . |