Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 2 | Some of you might have heard about it in the press . |
| 3 | Later it was found that its policies in relation to Polish territorial claims had been formulated for it by the Comintern as a way of weakening Poland . |
| 4 | She thinks he 's forgotten about it in the rush of leaving for America . |
| 5 | We have come through it to the extent that I am north and west Belfast Branch Secretary . |
| 6 | Similarly , unless it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances , a firm must not , in any written communication or agreement , seek to exclude or restrict : ( 1 ) Any other duty to act with skill , care and diligence which is owed to a private customer in connection with the provision to him of investment services in the course of regulated business ; or ( 2 ) Any liability owed to a private customer in connection with regulated business for failure to exercise the degree of skill , care and diligence that may reasonably be expected of it in the provision of investment services in the course of that business . |
| 7 | By convention , the government of the day resigns or requests a dissolution if a motion of no confidence is carried against it in the House of Commons . |
| 8 | But he is in one sense or another occupied with it for the rest of the book as he directs the recluse in understanding her experience in terms of a pattern established by the Incarnation , and anchors his teaching to Scripture . |
| 9 | Knitweave can be thought of as a stocking stitch fabric with the weaving yarn caught into it on the purl side . |
| 10 | She 'd been pressured into it by the situation . |
| 11 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 12 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 13 | If one wants to deliver a caring service one will deliver a better caring service if one manages it efficiently and uses the resources committed to it by the taxpayer to the maximum possible extent . |
| 14 | Prestel can now be accessed through the set or via a microcomputer and modem located beside it in the Community Information section in the library . |
| 15 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 16 | Interest in the Lamb is known to have been considerable at this period , when the third invocation addressed to it in the Mass was changed from " have mercy upon us " to " give us peace " . |
| 17 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 18 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 19 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 20 | Bomber Command was divided into Groups , each of which consisted of a Headquarters and up to a dozen satellite air fields scattered around it in the countryside , from East Anglia up to Yorkshire . |
| 21 | I 've only heard of it at the fashion college . |
| 22 | Well I , I had n't heard of it on the telly , I |
| 23 | In fact , he could n't remember ever having heard of it until the day Shiva came in and told them what he had found . |
| 24 | The painting , which represented the god of wine , Dionysos , might have had a happier fate had Mummius agreed to the bid of 100 talents made for it after the sack by King Attalus of Pergamum , but Mummius was intent on taking his booty to Rome . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that the crude material did much good , and not surprising that no more was said about it at the time . |
| 26 | The obelisk was nearly completed , and a place had been prepared for it near the south pylon of the Temple of Ptah ; the barge which had brought it had long since returned to the quarries upriver . |
| 27 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 28 | Built by Edward the Confessor , of sufficient strength to withstand a siege , it housed an almonry where the alms of the abbey were distributed and an abbey church built above it in the form of a cross . |
| 29 | I used the PCW version and found little at fault , except , that the limitations imposed upon it by the hardware made it slow to operate . |
| 30 | Central administration has been continually adapting itself to the new demands made upon it by the creation of services . |