Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She loves it to death . |
| 2 | I sometimes worried that he did n't have enough time to see his own music but it seems he has it by memory . |
| 3 | But we suspect it was found necessary to place the Monkeys ' Dance where the score has it in order to allow time for setting this exotic scene — and six dancers cavorting about on the forestage could make a useful amount of noise to mask what was happening on the darkened scenic stage behind the proscenium arch . |
| 4 | Has it in fact been a peace process at all ? |
| 5 | R v Stanley ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 2 Oct 1989 Where a judge has it in mind to make a compensation order but the possibility has not been raised by counsel , it is the judge 's duty to raise the matter of his own motion so that it may be properly and fairly ventilated . |
| 6 | Mr Jeffrey Bayes , a solicitor , specialising in criminal law , commented : ‘ It is obvious that the judge has it in mind to stamp out acid house parties right now . ’ |
| 7 | Prime Minister has it in mind to recommend to Your Majesty the appointment of Fotherington-Smythe to be Lord Lieutenant of Borsetshire . ’ |
| 8 | Having reviewed the scheme , an FAC Working Group recommended no change for the year commencing 1 April 1993 , but this recommendation was not accepted by the committee and the CAA has since notified AOC operators that it ‘ has it in mind ’ to raise AOC charges for operators of aircraft of less than fifteen tonnes maximum take-off weight by fifty per cent from April . |
| 9 | The consultation paper itself states ominously , ‘ the Government has it in mind to extend the list of uses by further regulation in due course ’ . |
| 10 | His desire is for the crown , and the way he starts at the witches ' double prophecy shows that he already has it in mind . |
| 11 | Right , any time you read a story , whether it be religious or science fiction , or whatever , in which somebody is taken out of one body and put into another body erm and the story goes , and then was turned into a pig , or whatever , erm , presumably that author has it in mind that you can still identify , that same guy , first in one body and then in the body of a pig . |
| 12 | He moulds the ash frame with boiling water , then covers it with calico waterproofed with bitumen , tar and linseed oil . |
| 13 | As James Tobin pointed out in his comments on the Coen and Hickman paper , a feature of their approach which exposes it to criticism from those macroeconomists who accept some variant of the NAIRU hypothesis is that it lacks a coherent explanation of the relationship between unemployment , be it Keynesian , classical or some mixture of the two , and inflation . |
| 14 | Such incidents might have caused Sir Bernard to have second thoughts about the system ; but he defends it with passion . |
| 15 | The Prison Service is reviewing the leave system , but defends it in principle , saying : |
| 16 | Its contribution has in part been developed through its critical understanding of what a working-class adult education might be , drawing on the best elements of the liberal adult education tradition to produce an education that respects people 's culture and experience , but also subjects it to analysis and questioning . |
| 17 | heads it towards Stone but he could n't control that . |
| 18 | How can this statement be reconciled with the suggestion that in order to make an element prominent a speaker places it in theme position ? |
| 19 | Like Samuel Pepys before him , he writes it in code . |
| 20 | All your life you live so close to truth , it becomes a permanent blur in the corer of your eye , and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque . |
| 21 | The big company is referred to as ‘ the mink-lined rat-trap ’ and , after a good talking-to from Betsy , Tom spurns it in favour of old-fashioned American self-reliance . |
| 22 | But I also seem to remember rows , and Motherdear going on and on and on — she has that way , you know : she just gets a subject , and worries it to death and beyond , never giving up , like a dog with a dirty old carcass . |
| 23 | Perhaps he wants it as credit to set against his future crimes . ’ |
| 24 | and erm you know , and I said Carla needs it for work anyway so Dave said I 'm gon na while I 'm on holiday I 'm gon na do all the stupid jobs , so I can take that computer in |
| 25 | And Guys needs it for goodness sake . |
| 26 | At present the local authorities have a duty to provide residential accommodation if this is required for anyone who needs it by reason of age or infirmity . |
| 27 | It is to require banks to hold capital specifically against market risk — broadly , the chance that the price of a share or a bond or a currency , for example , will fall , and expose the bank that holds it to loss . |
| 28 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 29 | Two or more warp strands are tied together to form a knot which presses against the final weft strand and holds it in place . |
| 30 | The water holds it in place within the pool while it is secured at the top by rocks , paving slabs or turves . |