Example sentences of "[prep] it [det] [noun] [verb] " 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 | In the exercise of it many factors have to be considered besides the strength of the case . |
| 4 | How on earth could any programmer keep the general plot and utter weirdness of it all while providing a playable , interesting game ? |
| 5 | He was free to move around his subject and to incorporate into his depiction of it any information gained by this process or acquired through previous contacts or experiences . |
| 6 | Nonetheless Count Christoph Douglas , head of Sotheby 's in Germany , declared that he has ‘ complete confidence in Berlin ’ as a location and with the level and amount of bidding at the sale , some of it keenly fought and much of it this time conducted by telephone . |
| 7 | For the discerning holiday makers wanting to get away from it all while enjoying all the luxury conveniences of top class accommodation , the AKTI MYRINA is the perfect choice . |
| 8 | The BBC Scotland task force suggested that the best way to pursue these guarantees might be to reverse the previous arrangement and keep the licence money in Scotland , paying out from it those fees imposed for taking network programmes and utilising corporate resources . |
| 9 | Without it few executives reach great organizational heights . |
| 10 | He had already seen to it that fodder had been stored in stone-built barns situated at strategic points on lower pastures . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Dealers who exhibit generally agree that the fair is successful commercially , has improved its standard in recent years , and look to it this year to test the general market for antiques and collectibles . |
| 13 | Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River . |
| 14 | Think of the difference it makes when you can look at programmes like that in the classroom on a video player : you can stop the programme at any point , you can go back and look at something again , you can choose to break it up into as many short sections as you want to and you can come back to it another day to refresh students ' memories . |
| 15 | But , you know , they talk about it all day do n't they ? |
| 16 | But it , is n't it an awful situation when you , when you , when you look at it that evidence indicates that the erm the number of people that are either now elderly infirm or sick and and clearly that they all will have to face this , this , this terrible burden and I can not understand because there is , this , there is , there is er a total disarray within the Conservative party , that all their er er back bench er MP s are making representations to their erm their leader who possibly may not be a leader tomorrow but as long as he 's the leader today , John Major that he should do a rethink and here they are er you know , members of the same party , continuing to support something which is so idiosyncratic that you know it 's really beyond belief , er Chairman . |
| 17 | At it each speaker emphasised this fundamental point . |
| 18 | You may set that as a target to try and work at it this way to overcome that or to do it better . |