Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] it [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She thirsted for it , imagining the cool wind of it cascading life into her lungs . |
2 | ‘ When we gave planning permission to the new Chelsea development we attached a condition to it preventing ground-sharing . |
3 | At its inception the BMC adopted a positive attitude towards it training commitments ; it recognised a duty to foster the safe training of young climbers . |
4 | In Britain this is a ground nesting bird of the open country , and there is no record of it entering caves , but like the snowy owl it could have altered its behaviour during colder stages of the Pleistocene . |
5 | The result was to show that the chance of advertising bans or very rigid controls affecting prevalence was about 95% , and the chance of it affecting consumption was about 90% . |
6 | However , of much more concern to Blythen Jenkins , head of corporate affairs with the IoD , is the tendency ‘ in all legislation where the liability of the company is involved , such as environmental or consumer protection , to have a little paragraph in it saying liability shall be assumed by the directors and officers of the company ’ . |
7 | The formality of the occasion slightly spoiled as Sadat and about thirty Egyptian officials waved goodbye ; the Shah turned the 707 too soon and his hosts were exposed to the full blast of it taxiing engines . |