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

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1 Instead of preventing proliferation , it has promoted it by allowing nations to protest innocence while violating the treaty 's inadequate provisions .
2 That if she 'd triggered it by asking questions she might be drowned in the flood of pain that would be released ?
3 Low-growing , almost mat-like , with white daisy flowers in summer , chamomile dates back to at least the time of the ancient Egyptians who are said to have used it for curing ague .
4 She covered it with her hand immediately as if she was trying to hide it from prying eyes .
5 So , some other understanding of alienation is required to validate it as the dynamic which establishes a proletariat and a property-owning bourgeoisie as Marx 's two antinomies predestined to engage in that life-and-death struggle ; and Marx seeks to provide it by postulating alienation as intrinsic .
6 Nor did most people who heard the record — some of them were tempted to buy it after seeing Ken in Cinderella .
7 I 've used it for carrying pens — you do n't get too many grizzlies or wolves where I live !
8 As their aircraft was seen moving erratically apparently out of control , it seems they stayed on board determined to keep it from hitting houses .
9 Derrida himself , therefore , does not in any sense abjure history ( or totality ) but rather attempts to reinscribe it by writing histories that set up supplementary figures whose logic simultaneously invokes and works against historical totalities .
10 We have used it for scouting exercises . ’
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