Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A solicitor of an undischarged bankrupt who receives after-acquired property on behalf of his client and transfers it to another agent , even with knowledge that that agent has been instructed to sell , is not liable for conversion at the suit of the trustee in bankruptcy , for the solicitor 's act can be described as ministerial within the test laid down by Blackburn J. Unfortunately , as Blackburn J. himself admitted , it is doubtful how far it goes . |
| 2 | He covers it with both hands . |
| 3 | Above all it takes seriously the work done by the pupils on site , and incorporates it into further classwork . |
| 4 | The male three-spined stickleback stakes a territory out and defends it from other males . |
| 5 | We owe it to these people and British Telecom owes it to these people just let them pay for what they use get rid of the standing charge . |
| 6 | When the staff at Bloomfield criticize the Profitboss for cancelling a visit three times running , he accepts it as constructive advice . |
| 7 | It plucks a long grass stem , carefully strips it of any side leaves it may have and then pokes it down one of the entrance holes of a termite nest . |
| 8 | and they 've got it in but it wants it at different times does n't it ? |
| 9 | Anne wants it at 30 degrees , Pat at 60 degrees . |
| 10 | Sherfey ( 1970 ) points out that femininity may not be a transhistorical absolute ; but her certainty that it exists now endows it with contemporary universality . |
| 11 | Another instance of disrespect involving the refusal of verse concerns Hotspur , reading the letter from a fellow rebel who has had cold feet — the letter is in prose , and Hotspur interrupts it with angry comments in prose , an unusual effect in Shakespeare — and then being confronted with his wife . |
| 12 | Every woman is connected to that lineage , whether or not she furthers it through physical reproduction . |
| 13 | Midland Bank divides Britain into five big regions , while Royal Bank of Scotland ( RBS ) slices it into 45 markets . |
| 14 | Nice chap and he teaches creative writing in Glasgow , used to be a teacher then a teacher trainer and then I think took early retirement and he does this but made the point that he simply uses it for extra income for pleasure and interest as opposed I suppose to a way of writing you know so |
| 15 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 16 | The first creates a CLI command file that lists the line to a file and then calls the second procedure which cleans it up and uses it as redirected input before exiting . |
| 17 | Crystal ( 1969 ) , pp. 100–4 , uses it in this sense ; see also Nolan ( 1973 ) . |
| 18 | She complements it with vocal caricatures of the monstrous and a keening she calls a ‘ vengeful mourning cry ’ . |
| 19 | Rita is a lively observer of her world , and describes it with vivid insight . |
| 20 | Rapport , the community newspaper , describes it as wanton damage and wilful vandalism . |
| 21 | Tim Albery 's production takes this weird eighteenth-century fantasy of nobles , bourgeois , and servants , all of whom finally settle for marrying their own class , and instils it with Fuselian surrealism . |
| 22 | So , if the retailer moves the tea or coffee every few weeks and replaces it with another product ( perhaps one that does n't sell as well ) he can bring it to the customer 's attention . |
| 23 | Suppose that an infant who has hired a horse injures it by careless riding . |
| 24 | ‘ Acid rain can be abatted by taking the sulphur from power station flue gases , using the Wellman-Lord process , which extracts it as sulphuric acid . |
| 25 | It is the unique experience of rail travellers on the Gotthard to glimpse the same , unmistakable baroque-domed village church three times in a few minutes as the train passes it at different levels above and below . |
| 26 | The first person in each team places it on their nose and then passes it to other members of the team without using their hands . |
| 27 | In this instance , Greenblatt does successfully illuminate a selective consideration in a manner which profitably and suggestively links it with larger issues the play addresses . |
| 28 | In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance . |
| 29 | A particular , and in representational terms crucial , development of this new activism ( and one which links it to other movements based on class , gender , colour , and so on ) is the de-biologising nature of the disability . |
| 30 | When a central bank buys a surplus of foreign currency it exchanges it for domestic currency , here Deutschmarks . |