Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abundance of it represented laughter and joy ; scarcity represented suffering and even death . |
| 2 | Ordinary people regularly broke the rules and resorted to bribery if they could get away with it to obtain essentials or medical care , but then their corruption was a sign of independence asserted against the system , whereas Manescu 's was typical of a deep inner decay of the system . |
| 3 | They have room within it to welcome strangers and make them friends . |
| 4 | I do n't think they 're in it to make zillions and zillions of pounds , I think they 're in it to make great records . |
| 5 | While Jinny served the tea Mrs Bennet brought a tall clothes maiden from the wash house and draped a sheet over it to give Anne and her mother some privacy . |
| 6 | And we also did a bit of leather work to , where we used to hammer the the leather and put colours on to it to make purses and that sort of thing . |
| 7 | Whilst the press must not overstep the bounds set , inter alia , for the ‘ protection of the reputation of others ’ , it is nevertheless incumbent on it to impart information and ideas on political issues just as on those in other areas of public interest . |
| 8 | This month its old-guard steering committee decided a better constitution would include annual meetings by the assembly , and powers for it to initiate laws and to veto bills from the legislature . |
| 9 | Similarly , Anala ( 1974 ) found no correlation between H. lapillus shell length and the time taken for it to penetrate mussel or barnacle shells . |
| 10 | It would hardly have been possible for it to support beauty and extravagance and pleasure at the expense of mere survival , but it did at least hint that such a view could be held , and its mere admission of this possibility was to Clara profoundly satisfying . |
| 11 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 12 | ‘ When I said it was a pity Connie died , you said something about it upsetting Muldoon and Cabrillo at first . |
| 13 | The following year , encircled by 20km of high security fencing with 5,000 volts passing through it to deter animal and human predators , Anna Merz' rhino refuge was ready to receive its first incumbent , a large bull translocated from an area near the Nairobi National Park . |
| 14 | Because obviously you could do this by hand , you could do it by it took ages and could be very boring . |
| 15 | However , although only a minority affected by it develop microcephaly and other conditions associated with mental handicap , it is common and attempts have been made to develop a vaccine which would prevent potential damage . |