Example sentences of "be [vb pp] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
| 2 | What about like contraception should be integral part of it , and abortion and the options open to you , but I think it 's very important that we are taught it , we 're taught it in a heterosexual basis , and that 's just not the case , and that just alienates people any more , really more from a very early age . |
| 3 | I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next . |
| 4 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 5 | She guessed Ursula 's diamond-encrusted eternity ring had inflicted the damage and recalled being shown it for the first time nearly ten years ago . |
| 6 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 7 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 8 | Oh , Christ , the cat 's done it outside the tray again … |
| 9 | Just a day after Kevin , 33 , visited his JobCentre , she joked : ‘ People will make sarcastic comments like ‘ She 's done it for the £7 child benefit ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’ |
| 11 | He 's done it on a shoestring budget to boot and , inevitably , such achievement has n't gone unnoticed in other Premier League boardrooms . |
| 12 | The Handmaid 's Tale is director Volker Schlondorff 's first American feature , and he 's done it by the book . |
| 13 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 14 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 15 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 16 | FOUR years after it was burned it to the ground in a disastrous fire , a Catholic church is rising from the ashes . |