Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the [noun] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the extensive research undertaken for the book it became clear that a number of particular issues posed the greatest challenges to potential returners and to prospective employers . |
| 2 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
| 3 | The lacinia is commonly spined or toothed on its inner border and when fused with the subgalea it has the appearance of carrying the galea . |
| 4 | By the time the 90mph train smashed into the benches it had lost only about 5mph . |
| 5 | Starting from the pole the local vector is carried along the direction it points ( a line of longitude ) to the equator ( A ) . |
| 6 | If central Asia could not be approached from the Caspian it had to be penetrated from the north , which meant bridging the gap between Russia 's south-eastern military outpost at Orenburg and the Aral Sea . |
| 7 | Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out . |
| 8 | In recent years it has added to the services it provides for the retired to include financial services , retirement homes and magazine publishing . |
| 9 | Barry Took , who wrote the first forty shows of the series with Bernard Merriman , remembers it all with an affection that is certainly not confined to the money it bought him . |
| 10 | ‘ Now I 'm in the voucher scheme I feel safer knowing that the council has looked at the people it employs , and if there 's any difficulty I can go to Joan [ the manager ] . ’ |
| 11 | Critical reservations about New Historicism are overwhelmed by the benefits it has produced in forcing us to reconsider the relations between texts , historical contexts , and the methodologies we use in both establishing and unravelling these relations . |
| 12 | The news might well be outdated by the time it reached the curia , messengers and even legates might be seized , as Cardinal Leo was by King Imre of Hungary , and the curial instructions might well be outdated when they reached their target . |
| 13 | The army that was fighting there , particularly its professional component , was still bruised by the defeat it had sustained in Indochina in the early 1950s and was determined not to repeat the experience . |
| 14 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 15 | The colours of the hood merge from black to brown to beige , and when framed against the sunlight it appears almost translucent . |
| 16 | But as soon as the name has merged with the object it designates , we must , conversely , resort to metaphor , allusion or allegory if we wish a more expressive term . |
| 17 | Founded in 1967 by Patrick McGovern , a market-researcher , IDG has grown with the industry it covers . |
| 18 | Little was known about the substance in those days , but this form of defence , relying mainly on the naivety of the jury , was met with the derision it deserved . |
| 19 | You indicated that er in a sense the strike became well organized in the sense it had a great deal of support erm both moral and material and presumably financial . |
| 20 | How may Catholics ensure that the Eucharist does not become separated from the salvation it witnesses to in Christ ? |
| 21 | Shoulders and upper arms are covered by a cape , or perhaps rather a cape-like adjustment of the dress : seen from the back it does not seem to be a separate garment . |
| 22 | We 've said in the past it 's been fifty percent full stop . |
| 23 | Sport does occupy a great chunk of the time of black schoolkids and the attention they give it is directly related to the rewards it brings . |
| 24 | The line that tensions the sail down the length of the mast and is connected to the mastfoot. it controls the shape at the front of the sail . |
| 25 | Pushed to the limit it leads to splitting the world into a racialized opposition between goodies and baddies . |
| 26 | And your choice of audition piece is often largely decided by the contrast it provides with the classical selection you have made . |
| 27 | But the awareness although sharpened is also twisted by the appetite it serves . |
| 28 | Frank Spencer had endeared himself to so many people that Crawford 's wish to leave the character behind was tempered by the pleasure it had clearly brought . |
| 29 | We know , too , the frequent result of such crude precautions , the often painful unpleasantness-to use a mild term — which results from putrefaction , and which the undertaker assures the family is ‘ quite inevitable ’ … whereas when the body has been prepared by the Operator it keeps the appearance of life for an indefinite period , and the last look remains as a pleasant remembrance to their friends . |
| 30 | And Hewlett-Packard has shown itself willing to make regular infilling acquisitions as it has grown — the company was heavily castigated for the price it paid for Apollo Computer Inc , but without Apollo , it would not be in anything like such a strong position today . |