Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , he was to look after it on behalf of the grantor 's family . |
| 2 | After they saw the pig — a pot-bellied Vietnamese — on Central News South last night — Environmental Health officers warned the pig 's owner that she 's breaking the law by the way she looks after it at home . |
| 3 | To ensure that all the pleats lie at one level when the blind is raised , the top pleat section should be slightly deeper than those below it in order to cover the front of the batten and to allow for the depth of lath and rings which accumulate at the top of the blind when it is raised . |
| 4 | The morpheme has no structure since there is nothing below it in grammar . |
| 5 | It caught her on the elbow of her right arm and sliced right through the botched teflon sutures that held the forearm below it in place . |
| 6 | Er so , that task , much of it under legislation , is carried out by fire officers and much of it as I say by good will and erm er advice to householders and bodies and erm big concerns and so on . |
| 7 | It is estate duty that is leviable in respect of it under Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 . |
| 8 | Now it appears to be on the ‘ at risk ’ register , its reputation battered and bruised , part of it under review before it has even reached its first birthday . |
| 9 | A great crater had been formed , most of it below sea level , and soundings showed that where land had once stood 300 metres above sea level , the water was now 300 metres deep . |
| 10 | This explains the consistency of the relation between birth weight and lung function and the lack of it between birth weight and respiratory illness . |
| 11 | Already he sported a blond mustache that was a passable imitation of the older man 's , and he twisted a strand or two of it between finger and thumb as he shot a comic grimace of pain in Joseph 's direction to convey his discomfort at the extravagant declaration of faith in him . |
| 12 | Television is full of it about election time . |
| 13 | We 'd have to put most of it into investment trusts |
| 14 | One pointer was the way that a growing percentage of the work-force was employed in the various activities of tourism , much of it of necessity on a shortterm or seasonal basis . |
| 15 | The National Trust owns a considerable land area , much of it of importance for nature conservation . |
| 16 | If discontinuity is the case , there is the alleged distinctiveness of recent crowd behaviour and explanations of it as part of a general transformation of the urban working class since 1945 to consider . |
| 17 | So it 's it 's vital that you get this exercise right and it , and you must n't just think of it as part of the study of History of Language , it 's not , it 's , it 's a er a definite part of your course . |
| 18 | I do n't sort of think of it as art going in the other direction . |
| 19 | Erm think of it as petrol . |
| 20 | So we put another wire on , do n't think of it as resistance , think of it as a conductor , it 's going to let some more current through . |
| 21 | Some of them think of it as shock tactics . |
| 22 | Buddhists for example would probably speak of it as progress towards a state of enlightenment in which persons are liberated from all false forms and images . |
| 23 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |
| 24 | In addition Lloyds , having cashed his cheque , later demanded a photocopy of it as proof he had made the payment . |
| 25 | They may not have thought of it as expertise , but when people said to me a particular ward is dirty , I went and looked at it , and in a very short time , within about ten minutes , that ward had got a massive clean-up team in there , that 's the sort of thing that I felt was useful . |
| 26 | ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly . |
| 27 | There are three main uses of it as subject : ( a ) As a non-referring subject : it was raining ( no referent ) . |
| 28 | If you get into the maths , you get into the model , and you start thinking of it as reality erm even in a circuit , say simple things like Ohm 's Law . |
| 29 | We like to think of it as extortion do n't we ? |
| 30 | ‘ When you come to think of it , ’ she said afterwards , ‘ if you think of it as training , it must be far more toughening than those softy hot baths . |