Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fisheries of the Suli islands between North Borneo and the Philippines , though not particularly rich in pearls , produced fine mother-of-pearl , a material keenly sought by the Chinese who used it for making inlays . |
| 2 | The Hepplewhite Guide was influential beyond England , in America , in Denmark , where J. C. Lillie used it in designing chairs for Liselund in 1793 , and in Germany , where F. G. Hoffmann pirated Hepplewhite designs in his Meubles-Magazin ( Leipzig , 1795 ) . |
| 3 | So the rise in product wages was both the clearest expression of tightening labour markets and the mechanism which prevented it from inhibiting accumulation . |
| 4 | Its evocation of an idealized pre-war era and its commitment to anti-semitism prevented it from joining forces with other maverick Conservative press barons like Rothermere and Beaverbrook . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the old enemies , the Durotriges , possibly with their allies the southern Dobunni , were soon on the rampage and pinned down Legio II Augusta in its fortress at Exeter and prevented it from joining Paullinus in the Midlands . |
| 6 | He was holding a lady 's girdle and he swivelled it like moving hips . |
| 7 | I began it upon leaving Tintern , after crossing the Wye , and concluded it just as I was entering Bristol in the evening , after a ramble of four or five days , with my sister . |
| 8 | It was a dirty trick to put it into to poor Mary Lou 's desk said Jean , she ca n't help being scared of things I suppose , she almost jumped out of her skin when she saw it , I should of thought any joker in our form would of been decent enough to popped it into say Alicia 's desk , not if it happened to be Alicia who popped it in said a sly voice , you do so love playing tricks do n't you Alicia ? |
| 9 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 10 | But after extracting the bone from the stream they cured it in jading substances . |
| 11 | The Prince inherited it upon becoming Prince of Wales and will lose it if and when he becomes King . |
| 12 | The diet was too severe and I broke it by having eggs and fish . |
| 13 | Nourse LJ thought it worth mentioning Lord Blackburn 's comment , based on Blackstone , that ‘ the sheriff also was bound to raise the hue and cry , and call out the posse comitatus of the county whenever it was necessary for any police purposes ; in so doing he was acting for the Crown ’ . |
| 14 | Barney took it for granted Yanto would have a cup , and made a signal to his wife through the kitchen window . |
| 15 | He took it with trembling hands . |
| 16 | Even when , in 1978 , McLaren returned from Brazil with the news that Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was now ‘ lead singer ’ of the Sex Pistols and someone McLaren earnestly claimed to be the missing Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann was the new bass-guitarist , Branson took it with disarming enthusiasm . |
| 17 | She took it in shaking fingers and pulled it on , immediately feeling very closed in by the visor . |
| 18 | I took out my next to , next to , last but one Capstan , and lit it with trembling hands . |
| 19 | I thumped it without feeling remorse . |
| 20 | She preferred it to preparing food , and took the greatest care to see that each piece of cutlery was exactly an inch from the edge of the snow-white damask cloth . |
| 21 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 22 | Once quoted as saying ‘ I 'm everybody 's biggest fan ’ , she proved it by including numbers from Bette Midler , Elvis Presley and Status Quo in her repertoire . |
| 23 | There was fierce criticism of the government from centre-left opposition parties which accused it of aggravating conditions leading to the crisis by appeasing religious extremists . |
| 24 | The firm is pushed to continue as long as it can without breaking the law — indeed Dista can claim CSM positively discouraged it from taking action , a situation which , some observers claim , shows that the British drugs watchdog has power without responsibility . |
| 25 | Reaching over the ink-black counter , she helped herself to a tumbler of Spanish coñac and drank it between shaking teeth . |
| 26 | Controlled it by eating fruit — no gain in weight . |