Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb mod] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | save up because fifty pound of it 'll go to my mum to ma , erm mum 's birthday present |
| 2 | There may be truth in such a suggestion ; and my own dislike of it may stem from nothing more profound than my intense dislike of the word ‘ leisure ’ , suggesting to me , as it does , the spectacle of some drone-figure sitting in a deck-chair while someone else mows the lawn , or a grim marina , packed with empty yachts . |
| 3 | ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 4 | The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 5 | Much of it would pass over the relatively sparsely populated area of eastern England and out to sea . |
| 6 | He understood money , ’ said Gerald with respect , ‘ and , having made one mistake , determined that most of it would die with him . ’ |
| 7 | Oh , Penry , I just wish the rest of it would fall into place ! ’ |
| 8 | If this book were written in proportion to the number of species in the group the rest of it would have to be devoted to the insects . |
| 9 | The luggage made a sort of mountain in the barrow , and some of it would have to be lashed to the sides with ropes . |
| 10 | It was estimated that in August nineteen forty the war was costing between six and seven million pounds a day and that a great proportion of it must come from the savings of the people . |
| 11 | It was possible that the whole of it could date from 1670 , having been made from two different pieces of silver . |
| 12 | Whenever Harris talks of his human rights work , he repeatedly states than none of it could continue without Amnesty 's campaigning — the thousands and thousands of letters landing on the desk of the Guatemalan President , the faxes , the questions in Parliament . |
| 13 | The smell was so all-pervasive that nothing consumed within half a mile of it could taste of anything not pertaining to dog . |
| 14 | So where , if I 'm putting twelve thousand in for sort of a , a holding fund for , for individuals I might put three thousand into a local society so they can pop down to the Nottingham Building Society for any bits and pieces , and th the , the bulk of it can go into a postal account to , with a better rate . |
| 15 | If Mr. Millan releases the money , every last penny of it will go to the coalfield areas . |
| 16 | David Hawkridge finishes by stating that all of us who declare an interest in education should increase our understanding of the new technology , and whether education can take advantage of it will depend on us . |
| 17 | Whether I will be part of it will depend on the new manager Rovers are appointing next week and whether it is a man I like and could work with . ’ |
| 18 | Some of this evidence will derive from the time of the event , some of it will appear in a standard text book , or a more specialised monograph ( see Analytical Reading , p. 10 ) . |
| 19 | The name ‘ Shivering Mountain ’ sounds like it should refer to some awesome peak in the Himalayas — in fact it applies to Mam Tor , standing at a modest 1,696ft but offering a first class viewpoint on this fine Derbyshire circuit . |
| 20 | What kind of right to the goods must the plaintiff have in order that interference with it may amount to conversion ? |
| 21 | Or , more ingeniously , the underside can be mirrored so that when it is flipped up it will look for all the world like a large looking glass . |
| 22 | But its brightness was dimming quickly and its shafts withdrawing from the near buildings and then further and further away across the roofs , so that she ran out into it to catch some before it should go beyond her reach . |
| 23 | This introduction to a scene and the gradual unfolding of the action within it may seem to be a rather academic restriction on the freedom of the cameraman , but it is a most important movie-making technique because it gives the viewer the feeling of involvement as a participant in the exploration of the location . |
| 24 | If I were to choose any country in the world to live as a family in it would have to be somewhere different , perhaps exotic . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyone who puts his mind to it can rise to the top , ’ was the confident reply . |
| 26 | The answer to it must depend upon the axioms from which we begin . |
| 27 | ( h ) convertible loan stock which is not quoted on a recognised stock exchange , or is not issued on terms which are reasonably comparable with the terms of quoted convertible stock , can cause a problem as the interest payable on it will fall to be treated for tax purposes as a distribution ( ICTA 1988 , s209(2) ( e ) ( ii ) ) . |
| 28 | have you turned them off , have you turned that thing off it 'll cook in the heat that 's on there wo n't it ? |
| 29 | And that I ca n't I wo n't go on my if I did it going off it would go over there . |
| 30 | If y'all like it , off it will go to TSB . |