Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been advocated countless times , but prejudice against it held sway , and it was argued that identifying players would pander to their individual egos . |
| 2 | In the nations around it marked admission to adult status in the tribe . |
| 3 | On 9 October , 1957 the atomic pile of No. 1 Reactor at Windscale in Cumberland , north-west England , began to overheat and part of it caught fire . |
| 4 | And although Big Flame was never an ‘ entryist ’ party-within-a-party , like some of the Trotskyite groups , including Militant Tendency , everyone who had been part of it remained friends . |
| 5 | There was a terrible resignation about it and a patience , and the pity of it slammed Taliesin at the base of his throat . |
| 6 | His work on it led Koops to prove that paper made from straw , wood , and recycled waste paper could be produced commercially ; this achievement earns him a place in the history of paper-making . |
| 7 | The sound of it brought Silas into the shearers ' quarters . |
| 8 | A row of smaller pots alongside it contained leaves from this parent plant from which he was hoping to strike new plants , so far without result . |
| 9 | Holly and ivy , the green leaves of winter … the thought of it made Tallis sing the carol , and Wynne-Jones joined in , adding his cracking voice to the melancholy memory of Christmas festivity . |
| 10 | The size of the camp when they came in sight of it made Rostov 's eyes widen with surprise . |
| 11 | The sight of it snapped Marie out of her dreamworld . |
| 12 | The house was beautiful and the sight of it silenced Jenna utterly . |
| 13 | Joe Kennedy , a Democratic member of the House , is crafting a resolution that would commit America to exhaust sanctions before it used force in the Gulf — and suggests that sanctions should run for at least six months from the passing of the resolution . |
| 14 | If you have the stomach for it minced worms make a wonderful fly food ! |
| 15 | In the ninth century , one poet praised its beauty , while another drowned in it ; salt-traders and vintners plied it as a matter of routine ; nobles and religious communities with estates on both sides of it had boats ready for regular crossings and landing-stages where their men could send off surplus produce for sale and unload imports for their masters ' consumption ; Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys , but quick getaways ; Charles the Bald , worried over strategic problems , planned the river 's blocking , and policing , and also exploited the symbolic possibilities of meetings at Orléans , Fleury , Cosne , Meung , Pouilly to which nobles must come from Aquitaine by crossing the river while Charles himself received his visitors on the Frankish side . |
| 16 | Picasso himself , on the other hand , said that he became familiar with negro art only after having painted the Demoiselles , and that his introduction to it took place in the Trocadero . |
| 17 | Erm , I do understand that er , you know , we 've got another report coming to us tomorrow on it , and there may be some additions on it disabled people hopefully about getting more people to , disabled people to That that 's another aim we help people |
| 18 | Abundance of it represented laughter and joy ; scarcity represented suffering and even death . |
| 19 | When it was transferred last year with it went pilot line supremo on a three-year secondment . |
| 20 | The front of it had oak beams and curved glass in the shape of a Wurlitzer jukebox . |
| 21 | The deliberate cruelty of it gave Theda the strength she needed . |