Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [adv] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements . |
| 2 | TOTTENHAM Hotspur may not have got it quite right on the pitch , but off it , Spurs plc , chaired by the Amstrad tycoon , Alan Sugar , netted profits of £3.28 million before tax in its first half-year , against only £810,000 before . |
| 3 | Had I hit it a bit harder , I would have got it quite close to the flag . ’ |
| 4 | I have n't watched it yet still on the |
| 5 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 6 | She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all . |
| 7 | I have encountered it so often in a lengthy acquaintance with this landscape , I know it as well as my own name . |
| 8 | Once I 've filled it in once in the book |
| 9 | From Rome Leopold related the now famous story of how his son wrote out Allegri 's Miserere , having heard it just once in the Sistine Chapel ; on 8 July Pope Clement XIV conferred upon Mozart the Order of the Golden Spur . |
| 10 | I have heard it most often during the period from February to April and have always associated it with mating . |
| 11 | Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it . |
| 12 | He would have taken it out here through the |