Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 2 | Our pattern will be displayed as we originally designed it in the Fair Isle option , but we are about to make some changes . |
| 3 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 4 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 5 | Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate . |
| 6 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 7 | Only decent thing in the room , if you ask me ; he must have won it in a raffle . |
| 8 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 9 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 10 | Southend could and should have won it near the end when once again the Town defence got itself in a tangle … |
| 11 | The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law . |
| 12 | He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history : |
| 13 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 14 | You have dropped it on the floor . ’ |
| 15 | If it had n't been she would probably have dropped it on the way here . |
| 16 | ‘ Could he have dropped it in the car ? |
| 17 | And they took a whole level off , they 've dropped it by a storey . |
| 18 | When his caddie had fished the ball out and he had dropped it behind the stream he was facing his fifth shot . |
| 19 | He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia . |
| 20 | Having blamed it on the Bundesbank , he can go on to talk about other things — such as sex and tax , perhaps . |
| 21 | I have always disagreed with those in the black community who , when they have applied for jobs and have not been successful , have blamed it on the colour of their skin . |
| 22 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 23 | In our answer to question 4 we have included it as a current account balance in order to reduce Susan 's exposure vis-a -vis Bob . |
| 24 | I have also included it with the map of Boo¨tes , since it so obviously belongs to the Boo¨tes pattern . |
| 25 | It contains nothing of real interest , and I have included it in the chart with Vela . |
| 26 | I have included it in the map with Eridanus . |
| 27 | I have included it in the map with Dorado . |
| 28 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 29 | I have included it among the general books because Michael and Lise Wallach offer as total a critique as I have seen recently of the assumptions underlying most psychology . |
| 30 | A few minutes later Silas led Lucy into the office , where he checked the telephone 's answering device for messages , then , having unhooked it from the phone , he said , ‘ There you are — it 's all yours . ’ |