Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 32 | ‘ Look how much better the Lilliputians do it ’ , is a tempting cry , but the more one looks into it the more one finds that the Lilliputians are n't a fair comparison with us : they have n't got our antiquated industries … our legal system ; and they are less than six inches tall . |
| 33 | In an age when politicians , journalists , estate agents and even advertising executives claim to be ‘ professionals ’ , it is easy to forget that the description once carried with it a certain cachet . |
| 34 | The very optimism of the possibility that the miners might be on the move against the government carried with it a premonition of pessimism , that the miners would save the working class when it could not save itself . |
| 35 | In all the other occupational categories , however , identification with one class or other carried with it a tendency to identify with the ‘ corresponding ’ party . |
| 36 | Betrothal appears to have carried with it a presumption of consent . |
| 37 | The operation carried with it a 1% risk of damage to the spinal cord and a 1-2% risk of damage to the nerve roots . |
| 38 | This new law was put into practice two weeks before my son 's death , and carried with it a maximum sentence of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 39 | The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State . |
| 40 | Trainees will come to realise that their action , by its abruptness , has carried with it the judgement that the client is guilty of incest . |
| 41 | This positive conviction carried with it the rejection of any attempt to compromise with other sources , authorities or norms , or to establish theology itself on any other foundation . |
| 42 | In an ideal world the choice of harmonizing instrument would depend on what was most suitable for the particular project envisaged and carried with it the greatest prospect of successful implementation . |
| 43 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 44 | Branson did not see Malcolm McLaren for another five months , by which time association with the Sex Pistols carried with it the whiff of high treason … |
| 45 | Branson 's fierce attack on ‘ predatory pricing ’ carried with it the implied threat of another anti-trust suit against British Airways in the American courts . |
| 46 | You ca n't defy the world as you can your parents ; you have to work with it a little — and be polite to it . ’ |
| 47 | When the bombs fell in the autumn the intellectuals were quick to celebrate the initiative and self-generated activity of the common people , and to discover within it a basis for a new reconciliation between patriotism and democracy . |
| 48 | Patience has sat upon it a long time , |
| 49 | Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness , he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness . |
| 50 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 51 | In the case of an unregistered title you will of course make a full land charges search , and you can include in it the name of any buyer-borrower . |
| 52 | This particular version contains within it a cooling device of unsurpassed elegance . |
| 53 | Miliband 's book is important because it contains within it a bridge between instrumentalist and structuralist accounts of the state and power in capitalist society . |
| 54 | Lenin was very conscious of Marx 's warning that each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war , an observation amply born out by the conflicts between France and Prussia-Germany in Marx 's lifetime and in Lenin 's time by the First World War . |
| 55 | ‘ An essential characteristic of cyclical behaviour is not only that expansion and contraction follow each other , but that each phase of the cycle contains within it the seeds to generate the succeeding phase ’ ( R. Levacic , Macroeconomics ) . |
| 56 | He seems thrilled to stumble across the notion that war has a technological impetus of its own ; others will recognise in it the familiar railway-timetable explanation of why the first world war proved so unstoppably disastrous . |
| 57 | Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition . |
| 58 | The human being has within it the physical and mental capacity to do this , and must accept that there is no alternative way for it to be done . |
| 59 | And they have argued that , whilst feminism should indeed always have a critical relationship to psychoanalytic theory , the latter has within it the potential for allowing a better understanding of the complexities of human desires and of the psychological construction of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 60 | ‘ People have a tendency to present their messages as a new problem … rather than as something which has within it the elements of a solution . ’ |