Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | various men seem to have caught it from changing their nappies . |
| 2 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |
| 3 | I could n't have spilt it by going whoop ! |
| 4 | MITI disciplined it by limiting its allocation of imported coking coal . |
| 5 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 6 | This was the 316th year of the society , but events such as wars with Napoleon , ‘ Kaiser Bill ’ and Hitler have occasionally prevented it from taking place . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the Commission 's disquiet has not prevented it from agreeing the designation . |
| 8 | A Constituent Assembly was elected in May 1990 but the military authorities have effectively prevented it from convening . |
| 9 | And , what 's more , he 's done it without sacrificing the lightness and strength of the guitar , nor any of its internal volume . |
| 10 | He 'd done it by making her question herself , she realised . |
| 11 | He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support . |
| 12 | Not half as much as I am of you ! thought Henry , as he ran his eyes down the rest of the manuscript ( she must have written it before going to sleep ) . |
| 13 | Could she have missed it by mistaking it for one of the panelled wardrobes ? |
| 14 | I had not seen it before taking a look at the February/March issue . |
| 15 | Ransome Kuti had accused it of instigating the violence in order to thwart the handover to civilian rule scheduled for January 1993 . |
| 16 | The Taiwanese government passed legislation in harmony with the regulations of CITES ( the UN 's Convention on Trade in Endangered Species ) in 1989 , although environmentalists have since accused it of failing to enforce these laws sufficiently . |
| 17 | She had not thought it worth mentioning before as he was not likely to be found . |
| 18 | I thought that was very interesting , for Richard had obviously never thought it worth mentioning that she was n't white . |
| 19 | It emerged that she had suffered from mild diarrhoea and wind for some years , but had not thought it worth bothering the doctor about these minor problems . |
| 20 | Low-growing , almost mat-like , with white daisy flowers in summer , chamomile dates back to at least the time of the ancient Egyptians who are said to have used it for curing ague . |
| 21 | I 've used it for carrying pens — you do n't get too many grizzlies or wolves where I live ! |
| 22 | We have used it for scouting exercises . ’ |
| 23 | Gamely , but a bit limply , Dr Clark claimed they had only got it by getting Mr Gummer ‘ dragged to the House ’ . |
| 24 | Everyone he had shown it to had described it as brilliant , and by all accounts it was ; rejection hurt . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 27 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 28 | This is the wrong side , they must have rewound it without meaning to . |
| 29 | Aggressive , aggression might be tied it with getting your own but being assertive is not about getting your own way . |
| 30 | If they did catch anything they had swallowed it before surfacing . |