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

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1 Morgan found confirmation of it in the fact that the people he had studied in most detail — the Iroquois — happened to be matrilineal .
2 The rain which I collect from the downpipe often has debris in it from the guttering .
3 A fine example of Egyptian art of the 18th Dynasty , Carter himself thought this piece important and drew attention to it in the catalogue that he compiled for the Amherst sale .
4 Although there are conflicting dicta it seems that an owner who is not in occupation of the land at the time when the thing escapes is liable if he has authorised the accumulation , and that anyone who collects the dangerous thing and has control of it at the time of the escape would be liable , perhaps even when he is carrying it along the highway and it escapes therefrom .
5 It is selective and hard to observe though you may catch sight of it in the tree canopy feeding on wood boring insects .
6 If a councillor has any matter to bring before a committee he must give notice of it to the clerk of the council .
7 The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two .
8 The secretary entered with the coffee tray and made room for it on the desk .
9 And further : We can , in summary , at the very least draw this conclusion : that it is , by reference to modern biological thought , a tenable view of society which — so long as its component classes are not exclusive — sees advantage to it in the variety of aptitudes and attitudes implied by class structure in a mixture of co-operation and competition between them .
10 Again , the liability depends upon the money or property in question being received in the ordinary course of the receiving partner 's activities within the firm and not upon any authority vested in himsee Willett v Chambers ( 1778 ) Cowp 814 ( misapplication of moneys received from a client for investment on mortgage , the client being billed in the name of the firm ) , Rhodes v Moules [ 1895 ] 1 Ch 236 ( partner absconding with bearer share warrants proffered by client as collateral security for a mortgage loan , where the firm was in the habit of receiving such securities from its clients ) and Blair v Bromley ( 1847 ) 12 Ph 354 ( misapplication of money by a partner who paid interest on it to the client , the fraud only coming to light on the partner 's bankruptcy .
11 A parcel sent with Amtrak is given a unique barcode at the start of its journey which means the company can keep track of it from the moment it leaves until it reaches its destination .
12 ‘ And if I had to put money on it at the moment then I would back Arsenal to win the title . ’
13 If it had done so , and had included among such grounds the case where the company had been formed with the purpose of defrauding creditors … the Spanish court would have been entitled to give effect to it notwithstanding the terms of the Directive ( p 32 ) .
14 Keynes began work on it during the worst year of the slump , under a government which had slammed the door on his favourite project of public works .
15 Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line .
16 Though Abraham receives the promise of the land of Canaan in Genesis 12 and , by God 's terms , takes possession of it in the next chapter , his descendants do not enter it as a people until the book of Joshua , and the business of conquest is not finished till David is secure on the throne half-way through the second Book of Samuel .
17 More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school .
18 Every penny he was paying he was having grant for it from the government Aye .
19 Every sojourner in Fort William simply must pay a visit to Glen Nevis , even giving preference to it over the train journey to Mallaig if time is limited .
20 As the organisers could n't find any reason to suppress it or reject it , they dumped the piece behind screens where it could no longer be seen and we lost sight of it for the whole exhibition .
21 If a UK beneficiary is entitled to the trust income because , for example , he has an interest in possession , the income may form part of his total income and he would pay tax on it in the normal way .
22 All junior pupils will be involved in the planting and each of the five school houses will be responsible for a section , taking care of it for the next few years .
23 I reminded him about the putter and took possession of it in the car park .
24 She was wearing trousers and as she kept her feet on the ground she felt reasonably secure , at least ; she kept her toes on the ground and spent a rather hilarious time trying to get control of it in the courtyard , her attempts bringing Marguerite out with words of advice and wide smiles .
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