Example sentences of "[prep] it be [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , I noticed it , Eva , but none of it 's sloshing against our house . ’ |
| 2 | Drawings of it are given in his Codex Atlanticus of about 1495 , but Leonardo can no longer be regarded as its inventor . |
| 3 | This can take many forms , but the idea is that part of it is strapped around your backside ; this prevents the hook from riding up and allows you to take all the weight of the rig by sitting . |
| 4 | Er and B , that surely a lot of it is covered in our training already . |
| 5 | But this is not to deny his achievement , which was fairly clearly founded on political , military , administrative and diplomatic skills of a high order , and his own sense of it is indicated by his adoption around this time of a crown modelled on that worn by the German emperors . |
| 6 | As Marx remarked , even when we make our own history , we do not make it in conditions of our own choosing and much of it is made behind our backs . |
| 7 | ’ It 's a sad reflection of society nowadays , ’ said the school 's headmaster ’ We blame children for a lot of things these days , but most of it is forced on them by the pressures of modern living . ’ |
| 8 | This is where force or the threat of it is used by someone to achieve his or her own ends . |
| 9 | ‘ I would say there 's a cultural acceptance of violence simply because there 's so much of it being fed to everybody . ’ |
| 10 | I have suggested that , in the event of it being loaned to us , we would be happy to arrange a photographic replacement for the duration of the exhibition . |
| 11 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 12 | The daughter of James Harris [ q.v. ] later claimed that a ‘ great part ’ of it was written by him , but she offered no evidence . |
| 13 | ‘ I should explain that although part of the letter was dictated by the kidnappers , most of it was written by my father . |
| 14 | Much of it was conducted from her own room , which soon acquired a shrine-like notoriety , both on account of its furnishings and its occupant . |
| 15 | ‘ Ridley J. has come to the conclusion that in fact no sufficient explanation of it was given to her , and that she did not understand it . |
| 16 | The expedition was not to start until the beginning of May , five days away , and she knew with absolute certainty that the word of it was to come to them from her . |
| 17 | Ms Sultana said that before the registrar 's office wedding Mr Ahmed , of Heather Road , Birmingham , asked her family for her British passport and a copy of it was forwarded to him . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's one track that sounds like it was written by someone much older than me , someone with experience who 's married with three kids . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ There 's one track that sounds like it was written by someone much older than me , someone with experience who 's married with three kids . ’ |
| 20 | Everybody who is connected with it is changed by it . |
| 21 | The lodge itself is still a feature in the landscape , possibly built in the style of the great house as those latticed panes would suggest ; but the family within it is to displace with its architecture the great houses of the Victorians , whether old or new . |
| 22 | oh , must find this seat belt ca ca n't find it wo n't go in it 's flashing at me saying I have n't got my seat belt , but I have or and we 'll go off to Southwold |
| 23 | The only way to get over it was to look after them . |
| 24 | So far as the acquiring company is concerned , the shares transferred to it are acquired at their actual value at the time of transfer , so that that forms the base value if and when they come to be disposed of . |
| 25 | Always concerned as a player about fitness , the former Liverpool and Scotland captain 's dedication to it was heightened by his spell with the Italian club , Sampdoria , which he joined in June 1984 . |
| 26 | Er so that 's that 's as it was told to me by er the th their their Chairman erm Win Winder . |
| 27 | David showed prudence in doing the things committed to him by Saul ; Job exemplified simplicity ( in the good sense ) for it was said of him that he was a simple man ; Solomon , in Proverbs , highlighted patience , where he said that a prince is made mellow by patience . |
| 28 | Much of what he wrote for it was re-used in his highly influential Dictionnaire de musique ( 1768 ) . |
| 29 | And one day she had this other map , and I do n't know where she got that either , or what happened to it She only showed it me the once , and after that whenever I mentioned it she did n't know what I was talking about It was made of something absolutely rigid but incredibly thin . |
| 30 | No , the way to get at it is to work from whatever background has fired your imagination . |