Example sentences of "be [vb pp] it [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This difference distinguishes causal circumstances and their effects from the other instances of necessary connection , the nomic correlates. ( 1.5 ) All necessary connections are open to forms of mathematical expression , and typically are given it in science .
2 The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present .
3 He told her he had been given it by Uncle Joe who kept a café up Kilburn way .
4 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 .
5 Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid .
6 I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next .
7 Aggressive , aggression might be tied it with getting your own but being assertive is not about getting your own way .
8 I just wondered what those contexts and you will be bound to be asked it in council if it 's not asked now .
9 The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account .
10 So th the case you 're putting that the that the pensioner trustee er ship is more powerful than you originally put cos until now you 've been put it in grounds of i the trust should be repre representative of it
11 Though , the case you 're putting that the , the pensioner trustee er ship is more powerful than you originally put , cos up to now you 've been put it in grounds that it 's the trust should be repr representative of it
12 Erm , last year , we were given it for free , erm
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Two others were offered it by their usual dealer .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Oh , Christ , the cat 's done it outside the tray again …
19 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 ’ .
20 She 's done it for years . )
21 ‘ And after all he 's done it for the most altruistic of reasons-unlike Bill 's quarry . ’
22 He 's done it on a shoestring budget to boot and , inevitably , such achievement has n't gone unnoticed in other Premier League boardrooms .
23 ‘ He 's done it to Dave Seaman and Chris Waddle and I do n't think that 's the way to do things .
24 And , what 's more , he 's done it without sacrificing the lightness and strength of the guitar , nor any of its internal volume .
25 The Handmaid 's Tale is director Volker Schlondorff 's first American feature , and he 's done it by the book .
26 Well , she 's done it in Gods go a'begging , using the same Watteau that we liked so much with the columns and the landscape in the background .
27 I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College .
28 ‘ I 'm surprised he was given it at all , really .
29 Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present .
30 Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from .
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