Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The court only intervenes when the tribunal is outside the ‘ scope ’ which has been assigned to it by the legislature ; the judiciary will not intervene if the tribunal has simply made an error within its assigned area since this would eradicate the distinction between review of legality and appeal . |
| 4 | She 'd been pressured into it by the situation . |
| 5 | The comparison will not show British progress in a very nattering light , for although Traffic in Towns was a hugely influential report in its day , nothing of significance has been added to it in the UK in a quarter of a century . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Because she had been detached from it at the most traumatic moments , she had not been caused any distress but was well able to see how the combination of Daniel 's various experiences could have led to her phobia about water . |
| 9 | The past is still a foreign country , but we have been shown round it by the most genial and expert of guides . |
| 10 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 11 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 12 | While it was unquestionably the most important candidate for saving by the nation , if all efforts had been concentrated on it to the exclusion of others the nation would have lost Belton and Calke . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 14 | A fairly narrow meaning has been ascribed to it by the Court of Appeal : |
| 15 | Above all , he had been led to it by the discovery that story , myth , could not only carry truth , but also be truth . |
| 16 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |
| 17 | The Leeds said the plan to close 60 of its 481 branches across the country was part of its long-term strategy and had not been forced on it by the housing recession . |
| 18 | I 've been working towards it from the start . |