Example sentences of "it [prep] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a company flat ; I keep it for entertaining mostly . |
| 2 | Instead of quitting the music business she should have learned to use it for singing rather than mouthing off at every opportunity . |
| 3 | She thought , looking at the pleasant room : I 'm taking it for granted already ! |
| 4 | The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights takes it for granted not merely that all individual men are members of a single animal species , Homo sapiens , but that this biological fact carries with it moral implications . |
| 5 | I should have taken it for granted there was something the matter . ’ |
| 6 | We can not take it for granted any longer that the division of Germany is sustainable ; in consequence , the whole European security order may be unstable . |
| 7 | Within the Western tradition of art we tend to take it for granted that much can be learned from the study of the art of the past and , traditionally , copying from the works of the Great Masters was one of a young student 's most important tasks . |
| 8 | Remove spent tomato plants as soon as possible and put the old compost on the garden as a mulch ; do n't save it for using again next year . |
| 9 | I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’ |
| 10 | It optimises it for distributed massively parallel processing . |
| 11 | Bristling with moonstones , the collar was primitive and barbaric ; the mastiff of a prince of medieval Persia might have worn it for going out hawking in a miniature . |
| 12 | Immediately in December 1979 , however , Parliament rejected the 1980 budget , criticising it for spending too much on CAP and too little on social and regional policies . |
| 13 | Do n't think of it as taking away one thinking of it , think of it as minus one , a number . |
| 14 | ringing it through had n't she ? |
| 15 | Actually , I 'm convinced the man to beat Lewis will do it through applying more mental pressure than physical strength . |
| 16 | How dreadful it would be if you hooked a big fish only to lose it through poking around with an inadequate net . |
| 17 | So the salt you can remember it through going back to the acid plus alkali reaction , it 's the same one you get there . |
| 18 | I consider it worth setting out in extenso the Commission 's position in that regard as it is set out in paragraph 3.1 of the communication : |
| 19 | ‘ It would make it worth getting up in the morning . ’ |
| 20 | I think it worth pointing out that of course erm when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister for a brief time I think Lady Young was Leader of the House of Lords in her cabinet , but apart from that there was never another women cabinet minister during her time as leader , so |
| 21 | She had not thought it worth mentioning before as he was not likely to be found . |
| 22 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's name coming to the forefront of the picture so unexpectedly made it worth looking more closely at him — in the past as well as the present . |
| 23 | Is it worth sending out a call ? ’ |
| 24 | Benefits such as good facilities can make it worth travelling farther ; it 's amazing how a well-designed yard can cut down on working time . |
| 25 | If you 've smoked 30 a day for 20 years , is it worth giving up ? |
| 26 | Is it worth killing off the unsuccessful part in order to concentrate resources on the successful side ? |
| 27 | Is it worth going out of your way for instant cash on a share deal ? |
| 28 | Was it was it worth going then with the boys not being there ? |
| 29 | Oh I 'm sorry my Lord perhaps I could read the passage out and then er I can hand it up to your Lordship but it after setting out the dictor from Mr Justice in the Midland Bank . |
| 30 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |