Example sentences of "[prep] it [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the money to fund a curator is n't raised in time , the Pitt Rivers music collection will be the only music collection of its class in the world without a qualified musicologist to look after it and keep it alive for the rest of us . |
| 2 | I mean , you look after it and protect it … ’ |
| 3 | One scheme was to transfer his legal estate to a relative or friend who was staying behind , who could look after it and administer it until he returned , or who , should the knight die abroad , could take care of it until the knight 's son reached his majority and could take it over himself . |
| 4 | It was hard to tell , at the moment , whether it would be moving at or away from him , but Sheikh , a patient and methodical child , looked ready to run after it and beat it to death on the boundary should this prove necessary . |
| 5 | When the spirit parted from the body it found no one asking anything of it nor giving it any directions . ) |
| 6 | Lori had taken advantage of it while disliking her cousin even more for it . |
| 7 | Appraisal is seen to be principally the activity of applied linguistics ( or that branch of it that concerns itself with language teaching ) and application ( as defined here ) the principal activity of language teaching . |
| 8 | Breeding and sex in general were a part of the natural order of things to the people of the old farming community ; and this is another aspect of it that reminds us of its ancient roots . |
| 9 | The present road and I do n't want to get into the detail of it but relate it to environmental costs against the so called benefits , would in fact cut right through there with a viaduct and it would actually start of on something like a twenty seven foot emba er a twenty seven foot high embankment and with a fifty four deep cutting . |
| 10 | Now somewhere on there we should say what the total is because we could look at this and we could say , well she saves erm half of it but does she , how much does she get ? |
| 11 | A Kentish hegemony in south-east England at this time is not , therefore , wholly out of the question , and Offa 's intention in intervening in 784–5 and thereafter may have been to gain mastery of it and contain it . |
| 12 | Oh all you got ta do is to hold that white , hold both ends of it and pull it , it 'll come out . |
| 13 | I touched the needle tip of it and wished I had n't . |
| 14 | She took a ready-cut slice of it and ate it . |
| 15 | Then you put a good big handle on it , so that everyone can get hold of it and pick it up . |
| 16 | Cassie was fond of it and kept it dust free and well polished . |
| 17 | Divorce is common enough for even young children to be aware of it and to fear you may split up . |
| 18 | She had hated the taste of it and spat it out immediately . |
| 19 | To m to sort out if you were really on top of it and know what you 're doing . |
| 20 | Pontius Pilate washed his hands of it and passed it on . |
| 21 | Maybe people will look at the squad , see I 'm out of it and assume my best days are over . |
| 22 | ar when I was pregnant with Ricky an all the rest of it and called her Anna Marie , after mum |
| 23 | We ritualise it , make a game out of it and name it : butch and femme : top and bottom . |
| 24 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 25 | He took several photographs of it and sent them off to London . |
| 26 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 27 | Emily Lloyd really made an outing out of it and brought her whole family — her mother , grandmother , brother , sister … |
| 28 | She will not hear of it and tells him the summer will restore her to her full strength , a story you have heard before and will not believe any more than I do . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'll have to snap him out of it and keep him to the exercises or he 'll ruin himself . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I always felt , ’ she said , ‘ that life 's not worth living , that I could only contemplate little bits of it and keep my sanity ; and those bits I selected carefully — the sun on a breakfast-table , girls dressing , flowers … ’ |