Example sentences of "[prep] it and be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His little castle is not part of a larger world , but exists in spite of it and is defined against it . |
| 2 | operates as part of the law of each ratifying State , so that the courts of each such State take judicial notice of it and is established by legal argument , not by the expensive and time-consuming process of adducing expert evidence , often from a different jurisdiction ; |
| 3 | The house had a large garden with a small river running at the foot of it and was situated in the small quiet village of . |
| 4 | The lake of liquid peat had burst through into the workings beneath it and was deluging into the colliery . |
| 5 | The trees on every side of the magazine bent away from it and were stripped of their leaves . |
| 6 | In recent years it has been generally held that the backwash down the beach contributes to the breaking of the next wave , becomes involved in it and is returned with the swash , so that there is no continuous undertow transferring water out beyond the breaker zone . |
| 7 | Therefore a form is softened by hatching , fluting or texture that wraps round it and is hardened by lines that run lengthwise . |
| 8 | Johnson dwells on McQueen 's diction , complimenting him upon it and being told in return that the man had ‘ learned it by grammar ’ , and Johnson goes on to contemplate that such good English must have been acquired while such people served in the armed forces . |
| 9 | GPs have cottoned on to it and are clamouring for beds . |
| 10 | The door was bolted but Wycliffe banged on it and was admitted by a uniformed policeman . |
| 11 | He 's been there , sacrificed for it and been changed by it . |
| 12 | They finally halted in a rough copse of thorn that had lopsided boulders scattered about it and was sheltered from the wind by the long shoulder of a hill . |