Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no limit to the amount of money which could be used during any given assignment but at the end of it each operative had to account to Kolchinsky for his or her expenses in tabular form , supplying the relevant chits to back up the figurework . |
| 2 | On the face of it such legislation seemed unnecessary ; after all , who in America would want to trade with a country like Iran ? |
| 3 | It was significant because during the course of it two things became very plain to Anna . |
| 4 | To have the thing scraped or vacuumed out of her womb , the very thought of it last night had sent her to the bathroom , heaving over the modern white lavatory . |
| 5 | In the middle of it Sniffy Wilson rang . |
| 6 | He had already seen to it that fodder had been stored in stone-built barns situated at strategic points on lower pastures . |
| 7 | He saw himself as a wise and benign deity , presiding over his kingdom and seeing to it that evil did not always prevail ; a hollow symbolism of course and anyway he rather liked hemp agrimony and ground ivy . |
| 8 | At it each speaker emphasised this fundamental point . |
| 9 | On the hills that crowded close around it black forest stretched up towards the skyline . |