Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it and [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potter paddled for it and could have made it . |
| 2 | In the second case , however , compulsory acquisition at less than market price involves an actual loss since the owner is not only deprived of his property but is also compensated at a price which might be less than he paid for it and would almost certainly be insufficient to purchase a similar parcel of land in the open market . |
| 3 | Occasionally this contrivance could overshadow the less congenial reality which lay behind it and could override the more mundane , everyday exploitation of work on the land , but this , given the conditions under which farm workers lived and worked , was only sporadically successful . |
| 4 | She looked at it and could see no fault ; she thought of Lucy and did n't care . |
| 5 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |