Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] it [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one knew how to go about it the Fall was reversible . |
| 2 | Would somebody with expertise here like to define for the rest of us what what , what differentiates somebody with a , a , an eating disorder , er from someone who 's er a chronic dieter or a chronic worrier or no not a chronic dieter at all , but someone who just thinks about it a lot ? |
| 3 | ‘ If one thinks about it the President makes an ideal stalking horse . |
| 4 | Once again , as with heroes such as Arthur , Charlemagne and Macbeth , an original core of genuine history gathered about it a coating of myth and legend which distorted the truth and added extensively to the apocryphal side of Rodrigo 's life . |
| 5 | He 'd deceived and manipulated her again and again , and she 'd fallen for it every time . |
| 6 | Well hardly out of the blue , they asked for it a week ago . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't have nightmares but I do think about it a lot . |
| 8 | Why do fall for it every time I 'm here ? |
| 9 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 10 | English Language , Literature , and History in the colleges was both similar to and different from these other modern disciplines ; similar in that , like them , it sought to create for itself a solid and autonomous identity ; different ( especially from the early decades of this century ) in that its predominantly classically-trained and often clerical academic proponents increasingly claimed for it a status well beyond that of any mere " discipline " or " knowledge subject " . |
| 11 | Like the Three Women , Bread and Fruit Dish is a work of extraordinary gravitas ; and it has about it a physicality and a presence seldom associated with ordinary still life . |
| 12 | No one was within earshot , they were miles from anywhere , it seemed , and even if she jumped in the river and swam for it the chance that she would outmanoeuvre him in the water was slim . |
| 13 | My bedroom , for instance , had a ghost that used to come through it every night — it was n't a visible ghost but it was audible — and I used to see the door open at the other end of the room when I was in bed and then would hear this ‘ clunk clunk ’ … . |
| 14 | Where the Ministry of Defence has occupied land for generations or even for centuries , will my hon. Friend ensure that in disposing of it the Ministry will work as closely as possible with local authorities to ensure that it is developed consistently in accordance with the wishes of local people ? |
| 15 | Certainly get looks like it the sun 's going in . |
| 16 | If you look at a department like the Director and Engineers department , every letter in fact has underneath it the City Engineer , even if its signed by somebody else . |
| 17 | It has behind it an ideal ; it aims primarily at getting working men and women of this country abroad in order that the scales shall fall from their eyes through real comradeship with those who do the hard work in other countries . |
| 18 | When life gets more interesting one is more responsive , more aware of one 's surroundings and what one is doing ; his answer , inarticulate as it may be , has behind it the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 19 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 20 | In all the other occupational categories , however , identification with one class or other carried with it a tendency to identify with the ‘ corresponding ’ party . |
| 21 | The very optimism of the possibility that the miners might be on the move against the government carried with it a premonition of pessimism , that the miners would save the working class when it could not save itself . |
| 22 | Betrothal appears to have carried with it a presumption of consent . |
| 23 | This positive conviction carried with it the rejection of any attempt to compromise with other sources , authorities or norms , or to establish theology itself on any other foundation . |
| 24 | Trainees will come to realise that their action , by its abruptness , has carried with it the judgement that the client is guilty of incest . |
| 25 | Branson did not see Malcolm McLaren for another five months , by which time association with the Sex Pistols carried with it the whiff of high treason … |
| 26 | The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State . |
| 27 | When the bombs fell in the autumn the intellectuals were quick to celebrate the initiative and self-generated activity of the common people , and to discover within it a basis for a new reconciliation between patriotism and democracy . |
| 28 | He drew from it the photograph of Elsie McAndrew that he had shown to Mrs Wilson in London . |
| 29 | In the case of an unregistered title you will of course make a full land charges search , and you can include in it the name of any buyer-borrower . |
| 30 | Miliband 's book is important because it contains within it a bridge between instrumentalist and structuralist accounts of the state and power in capitalist society . |