Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a very ill-ordered household , Mary and Claire looking after it between them in a slapdash way . |
| 2 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd rather you went after it with my support than behind my back . |
| 4 | Garden furniture will come up looking like new and will last longer too when you look after it with your Steamatic . |
| 5 | Unless you can do so your holding will deteriorate or you will spend a small fortune paying outsiders to look after it for you . |
| 6 | If you have forgotten anything , you can always phone whoever has a key to your house or is looking after it for you . |
| 7 | Making a will with a solicitor also has the advantage of that you 'll have a copy , he 's likely to look after it for you if you want him to . |
| 8 | I 'll look after it for you until you 're back . ’ |
| 9 | Because we ca n't just accept that , that manufacturers will look after it for us , because as you 've , already said by the Chief , they 'll move the factory where it |
| 10 | I mean David 's talking about the leaf stem I could n't care less about the leaf stem I 'm with most people I understand that Councillor Barry Jackson 's offered to look after it in his garden cos he likes it and he 's welcome to do that . |
| 11 | That after the conquest of Norway Swegen was put in charge of it under his mother 's tutelage reinforces this conclusion . |
| 12 | He liked the softness of silk , the slippery feel of it under his hands as he slowly undressed a woman in a shadowed bedroom . |
| 13 | I would n't single him out , I would just say he 's not a strong teacher for the reason that he 's only got part of it under his belt properly yet . |
| 14 | But that , of course , is an answer which bites its own tail — the ‘ opportunity , in the secondary modern school is the chance to get out of it into something better , namely a grammar school . |
| 15 | He identified these enablers as the capturing of the necessary information , the conversion of it into something that 's useful ( ie the big advances in language translation systems recently ) , protecting information with better security , and information sharing through video conferencing and shared space . |
| 16 | In The Young Stepmother ( 1861 ) Charlotte M. Yonge represents Mr Kendal as a positive recluse within his study ; and even when his lively second wife contrives to drive him out of it into her morning-room , she has to prevent him from turning that room too into a ‘ literal boudoir ’ , by which she seems to mean ‘ a place to sulk in ’ . |
| 17 | Giles reached for the wine and emptied the rest of it into their glasses . |
| 18 | He had feared he might choke when she stuffed chunks of it into his mouth and held him down , her hand sealing his lips , until he swallowed . |
| 19 | He picked at a home-made roll and popped a piece of it into his mouth . |
| 20 | President Marcos increased the Philippine national debt from $2.7 billion to over $28 billion between 1972 and 1986 — slipping around $15 billion of it into his own bottomless purse5 . |
| 21 | Arthur Kobold cut himself a generous wedge and thrust the better part of it into his mouth . |
| 22 | I sang songs to myself , made up stories , got hungry , rolled around in the sand a bit , rubbed a little of it into my eyes and generally tried to psyche myself up into something that might look like a terrible state for a wee boy to be in . |
| 23 | His black hair was tousled , blown by the wind , shining strands of it across his brown forehead . |
| 24 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 25 | Is there any danger that erm that it could happen more , er that you could have the same happening say in Flats as a similar thing happening say in erm more middle class areas , such as , yet erm there being more risk of of it of it of erm parents losing the child , say in some areas such as Flats , and yet in , |
| 26 | Most of it of it will be spent on rooms for parents of children being treated . |
| 27 | or or lack of it of our clients with the stop go attitude . |
| 28 | If you think of it as its sound equivalent , each radar emission can be thought of as a swooping wolf-whistle . |
| 29 | When I actually began to realize that there were advantages to being gay , that changed my whole attitude — up till then I had always thought of it as something to be sorry for , to apologize for . |
| 30 | Unlike France , where lamb is still , in spite of its easy availability , regarded as a prince 's dish , the Germans think of it as something else . |