Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year the time devoted to it and the importance attached to it , especially on television , seems to increase . |
| 2 | Similarly the value of something is intrinsically bound up with the way in which someone who recognizes it is drawn to it , or repelled by it if the value is negative , but is not merely a disposition to attract or repel , for we can not be thus attracted or repelled except by recognizing ( or at least seeming to recognize ) a value |
| 3 | Hazel turned towards it and the rest began to follow him up the slope in ones and twos . |
| 4 | No doubt the past was just the same to the people who lived in it as the present is to us . |
| 5 | The road at that point was half-a-mile inland from the cliffs and Jordan 's place lay between it and the sea on what the geologists call an elevated plain of marine denudation . |
| 6 | They saw him leave the room where they were sitting and begin to walk across a bar which lay between it and the entrance to the building . |
| 7 | In the countryside , matters were no better ; the smaller shops in the villages and towns often produced insufficient income to support a family , so that the wife or daughter often looked after it while the man pursued another occupation . |
| 8 | ( His father 's occupation is particularly significant , because the invention of the mechanical clock must presumably have depended on the co-operation of the learned man , probably a monk , who first thought of it and the blacksmith who actually constructed it . ) |
| 9 | I am grateful for this opportunity to clarify any uncertainty that may have resulted from this case , the specific circumstances which lay behind it and the way in which it had to be decided . |
| 10 | Surely it must be something else , something basic , inherent in a person 's character or , rather , most people 's characters , which saw to it that the world went round . |
| 11 | Kelly stared at it and the lad hurried on . |
| 12 | It came down like an oily green avalanche , piling up into a mountain of folds , but no one bothered about it because the sun shone through the dusty , cobwebbed windows and made Jekub glow . |
| 13 | He leaned into it and the fielder at midwicket could only turn and jog after it all the way to the boundary . |
| 14 | ‘ Those far-distant , storm-beaten ships , upon which the Grand Army never looked , stood between it and the dominion of the World . ’ |