Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmas came , and the German officers celebrated it by singing ‘ Heilige Nacht ’ and drinking heavily in the Casa Gandini , which they still occupied . |
| 2 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 3 | This would all have been uninhabited malarial marshland until the post-war boom made it worth draining . |
| 4 | With rare exceptions the classical economists took it for granted that a reduction in the money-wage rate would be translated into the all important reduction in the real-wage rate which was required by marginal productivity theory . |
| 5 | The church found it hard to enforce chastity within marriage when a pagan man took it for granted that he had the right to sleep with his slavegirls . |
| 6 | In so far as its obstinate traditionalism prevented it from doing what political economy required , it had to be made to . |