Example sentences of "[prep] it [coord] [be] [verb] " 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 er that would be erm structured in a way that y the people who are er training are making sure you 've got the best out of it and are making
4 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 .
5 So I think the school is in the position of wanting to think more about the problem of the brighter child , but they certainly were not unaware of it and were attempting to deal with it .
6 So I think the school is in a position of wanting to think more about the problems of the brighter child , but they were not unaware of it and were attempting to deal with it .
7 The company also saw nearly a halving of complaints against it and is hoping to widen the number of people using meters .
8 He had swum to the raft , put his head against it and was pushing it forward with heavy thrusts of his back legs .
9 The lake of liquid peat had burst through into the workings beneath it and was deluging into the colliery .
10 He has had to go into year 5 because of the different age for secondary school here but he has coped well with it and is allowed to carry on with his own level of work .
11 The trees on every side of the magazine bent away from it and were stripped of their leaves .
12 I 'm probably going to have some sort of a frothing fit before it and be flown home to England in a wooden crate . ’
13 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 .
14 Her foot , when she explored it with her fingers , had a couple of thorns stuck in it and was bleeding .
15 It was brushed down , it did n't look as though anyone had slept in it or was sleeping in it .
16 Therefore a form is softened by hatching , fluting or texture that wraps round it and is hardened by lines that run lengthwise .
17 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 .
18 ‘ They are really looking forward to it and are determined to put Liverpool under just as much pressure as at Anfield .
19 GPs have cottoned on to it and are clamouring for beds .
20 The Building Society , based in Gloucester , has set aside interest payments on the debts owed to it and is investigating the possiblity of making some compensation payments .
21 I came near to it and was cured .
22 Its tail has no fin on it but is used as a hook with which the fish anchors itself to weed or coral .
23 I mean sure they 're acting their ancestors and they 're quite willing ( in exchange for some Mickey Mouse presents ) to build us a raft and transport us upstream on it and be filmed doing this .
24 The door was bolted but Wycliffe banged on it and was admitted by a uniformed policeman .
25 He 's been there , sacrificed for it and been changed by it .
26 The first Power PC chip , the 601 , will become available for it and is expected next year , ahead of schedule .
27 The means was to restrict the legal provision of credit to those who applied for it and were granted a licence .
28 Is he aware that among women serving life sentences in Bullwood Hall women 's prison for murdering their husbands there are several whose lack of command of English meant that they were not aware that there was anywhere that they could run to , that some women who had tried to run away from extreme brutality were dragged back by their families , and that some were terrified of leaving their children with a brutal partner , and that therefore they had to wait until they could do something about it and were driven to commit murder ?
29 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 .
30 This unpleasant structure merges well with the rocks cape around it and was used , during the Second World War , as a prison .
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