Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | The tactic used by the Commission for passing the Single European Act was to present it to the member states as if it were the only thing on offer : either take this or leave the Community . |
| 3 | Because i in , in theory presumably they s they should n't have been abusing their position , they should n't be gaining more because the whole point was to do it for the masses particularly , I mean if you were a Party cadre erm you should n't be getting more out of it than anybody else . |
| 4 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 5 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 6 | And perhaps Labour 's greatest ever mistake was to saddle it with the label ‘ poll tax ’ , thereby fixing in the public mind the link between voting and taxation . |
| 7 | The predominant response to Mannheim 's proposals for the sociology of knowledge in the English-speaking world was to incorporate it into the programme of ‘ scientific ’ , functionalist sociology . |
| 8 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 9 | There was the Cambridge Rapist in his mask with references to ‘ A Hard Day 's Night ’ — the idea was to link it to the death of The Beatles ' manager , Brian Epstein , during a supposed bout of homosexual S&M . |