Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Buddhist intelligentsia associated it with beef eating , gambling and the consumption of arrack , activities which were frowned upon by those influenced by Buddhist revivalist ideas but which were perceived as regrettably common among the masses .
2 Arjun had given Burun the land for all time , and now the Merkuts occupied it in peace and prospered .
3 Capitant 's Union Gaulliste apparently intrigued de Gaulle , but not enough for him to lend it active support or even sanction , and de Gaulle 's reluctance to throw his weight behind this initiative doomed it to failure .
4 Many kinds of dispute arising out of industrial relations could find their way to the NIRC which , because of its status as a superior court of record and the powers given it by statute , was able to order the payment of fines and , if that or any other of its orders was disregarded , could imprison for contempt .
5 The official news agency Tass pointed out that the term " private property " had been avoided because the phrase " has great emotive force " in the USSR , where people associated it with exploitation .
6 Charterers of a ship loaded it with benzine .
7 If there is a doubt put it in pencil and wait for confirmation from your own experience or from the reports of others .
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