Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , surely it 's about erm helping , I do n't know how you go about it but the illegality of it prevents people admitting it and asking for help , and taking erm any advice that people can give about using it safely . |
| 2 | She thirsted for it , imagining the cool wind of it cascading life into her lungs . |
| 3 | The way you say that it sounds like crap , but I guess the essence of it makes sense . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If now we postmultiply the ( 3 × 2 ) submatrix of A by I , we can add the last result to it to recover A as the matrix product unc Finally , a matrix of rank 1 can be expressed as the product of a column and a row in that order — for such a matrix has effectively only one independent column , all the other columns being proportional to it ; similarly for the rows . |
| 6 | ‘ When we gave planning permission to the new Chelsea development we attached a condition to it preventing ground-sharing . |
| 7 | Their Active Mouthguard is a refreshing mouthwash with a special anti-bacterial agent to fight plaque plus it contains fluoride to strengthen teeth . |
| 8 | The department co-operates with Oxford Brookes University in teaching a new Master 's course in Historic Conservation ; the course is modular in form , and part of it entitles students to a certificate awarded by the department . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The government , denying that it held any political prisoners , ordered the women to end their protest , saying that opposition supporters were taking advantage of it to cause unrest . |
| 12 | After the talks ended , it was reported that the USA was considering a Philippines proposal for it to leave Clark Air Base and the four smaller installations by September 1991 , but to withdraw only gradually from Subic Bay , over a period of 10-12 years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There was a terrible resignation about it and a patience , and the pity of it slammed Taliesin at the base of his throat . |
| 15 | In a short speech of thanks , Bill told us that he was ‘ heading on down ’ to a DIY megastore with it to purchase drills , saws and other paraphernalia necessary for home improvements which is his first project in retirement . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was sitting by the food tray , and had ordered six of the older and more sensible nomes to stand guard around it to keep children away . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The sound of it brought Silas into the shearers ' quarters . |
| 20 | They have room within it to welcome strangers and make them friends . |
| 21 | The doctrine of political neutrality is a doctrine of restraint for it advocates neutrality between valid and invalid ideals of the good . |
| 22 | 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% . |
| 23 | Ray Floyd , having dumped his ball in it to help Faldo to the second of his titles , would not deem it so . |
| 24 | Faith is one of the forces by which men live , and the total absence of it means collapse . |
| 25 | If you want to do some writing with it to explain earth rotates half way in twelve hours that 's up to you . |
| 26 | All 12 EC countries must ratify the treaty for it to become law . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The size of the camp when they came in sight of it made Rostov 's eyes widen with surprise . |
| 29 | The sight of it snapped Marie out of her dreamworld . |
| 30 | The house was beautiful and the sight of it silenced Jenna utterly . |