Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |
| 2 | Anxious to do things properly , however , Charles sought the best specialist advice which he could get ; he found it by consulting eminent jurists of the legal centres of Bologna , Montpellier , Orléans , and Toulouse . |
| 3 | The decision lifts restrictions that were placed by the court on the tiny company several months ago that forbade it from distributing advance copies of BSD/386 code for beta testing , or production software . |
| 4 | This was a sensible policy which would bring stability to Britain , and took it for granted that stability would mean that relations with the colonies would remain unchanged . |
| 5 | It is evident that Lakatos took it for granted that physics constitutes the paradigm of rationality and good science . |
| 6 | We know that , in general , the literati became the bureaucratic agents of the established political order and that they always took it for granted that hierarchy is part of the natural order of things . |
| 7 | What made it worth recording several centuries later was that Ella was successful ; for the next fifteen years or so he established his authority in the south by force of arms , firmly ‘ pacifying ’ recalcitrant Britons . |
| 8 | It 's a very special house for Kaye and Max because they bought it after spending 10 years abroad . |
| 9 | It has not inherited this behaviour ; it has either worked it out for itself , or learned it by observing another chimpanzee . |
| 10 | TODAY proved it by showing six women a picture of Clinton lookalike Bill Kay , who is on the books of modelling agency Susan Scott Lookalikes , and telling them he sold Hoovers for a living . |
| 11 | I did it on having testicular cancer . |
| 12 | April 30 : visit by Prime Minister Popov to NATO headquarters and statement that Bulgaria would not sign a security treaty with the Soviet Union which that precluded it from joining other alliances . |
| 13 | Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards . |