Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not so much concerned , as the tribal sculptor was , with conveying his idea about an object , but rather with recording it or interpreting it in pictorial terms . |
| 2 | Alternatively , the exporter could seek a loan against it or negotiate it to another party in settlement of a domestic trade debt . |
| 3 | If you have a good facing brick , it is generally best not to paint it or seal it with any kind of coating . |
| 4 | Candles give a warm glow to the festive arrangements ( but make sure they are far enough from the wallpaper not to scorch it or damage it with hot wax ) . |
| 5 | And they 'll read it from that point of view , and they 'll accept it or reject it on that basis . |
| 6 | If the information is accidentally overheard or intercepted in circumstances where the owner of the information utters it or transmits it by insecure means ( for example , by telling someone in a crowded room or by transmitting the information by a public telecommunications system ) an obligation of confidence might not be imposed on the person obtaining the information in this manner . |
| 7 | You can also , at the touch of a button , double the width and/or length of the pattern , mirror image it or convert it to double jacquard . |
| 8 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 9 | He reaches up for it and takes it in both hands . |
| 10 | ‘ No , absolutely not , though people can take information from it and use it for that purpose if they 're so minded . |
| 11 | Where in previous years these vessels had been purely large fishing vessels loading salted fish into barrels for immediate export to their own ports , now there came great numbers of large factory ships and modern trawlers which could process fish , package it and freeze it for indefinite periods . |
| 12 | This formal writing-up took nearly twenty years : it is one thing to collect data , and another to evaluate it and make it into public knowledge . |
| 13 | ‘ Its purpose is to help middle and secondary schools plan their overall curriculum to include an adequate coverage of pupils ’ study needs : the ability to formulate and focus a question , find possible sources , judge their appropriateness , extract the relevant information , reorganize it and prepare it for future use , or reorganize it and prepare it for future presentation to others . |
| 14 | ‘ Its purpose is to help middle and secondary schools plan their overall curriculum to include an adequate coverage of pupils ’ study needs : the ability to formulate and focus a question , find possible sources , judge their appropriateness , extract the relevant information , reorganize it and prepare it for future use , or reorganize it and prepare it for future presentation to others . |
| 15 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 16 | But that is another way of saying the ring can not be seen , measured , touched or heard by picking up the bell and sniffing it , weighing it and subjecting it to chemical analysis . |
| 17 | Its first owners were a noble Florentine family — the Pucci family — who through the generations , owned it , lost it and repossessed it on several occasions . |
| 18 | His agent , Peter Müller , had prepared it and left it in one of the embassy ‘ letter boxes ’ for collection . |
| 19 | Well can you empty one of those and put it and put it in that bucket . |
| 20 | ‘ I thing it is my forte to take something like a relationship , and then examine it and mirror it in different songs , it 's actually the same relationship but looked at from a different way . |
| 21 | And we increase it by ten perc Well let's say we increase it by It 's not out money is it , so let's really spend it and increase it by fifty percent every year . |
| 22 | Many other permutations were possible but the future of the house did cause worry , There was even a rumour that the local authority was to acquire it and turn it into some kind of museum . |
| 23 | Social institutions , including that of education , are set up to counteract the shortcomings of nature , to control and exploit it and turn it to human advantage . |
| 24 | An outside cistern could be kept from freezing by hanging a light bulb near it and leaving it on all the time . |
| 25 | You realise how subtle it is when you watch a beaver painstakingly placing a pole on its dam , being visibly dissatisfied with its position , removing it and tugging it into another , until it is at last convinced that it has been effectively deployed . |
| 26 | I spotted it and lost it at that last roundabout . |
| 27 | For clearly one of the principal characteristics of sculpture in the round is that the spectator is able , and is indeed often encouraged or compelled , to walk around it and study it from all angles . |
| 28 | Lowes did in fact trace many of the images unerringly to their source ; and what was even more interesting was how Coleridge 's mind took the raw material of some explorer , and twisted it and mixed it with many other ideas to produce the incomparable poetry of The Ancient Mariner and Xanadu . |
| 29 | And often we are the people who embroider it and overbear it with all the complications ent that that are that are part of it . |
| 30 | You could take their word for it and leave it at that . |