Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relieved Rangers manager Walter Smith knew it would need something special to break Marseille 's French resistance , and McSwegan provided it by finishing off a superb move started by Ian Durrant . |
| 2 | This would all have been uninhabited malarial marshland until the post-war boom made it worth draining . |
| 3 | But the book 's greatest association interest is that another , and greater , poet found it worth studying for its content and craftsmanship . |
| 4 | Barney took it for granted Yanto would have a cup , and made a signal to his wife through the kitchen window . |
| 5 | Even when , in 1978 , McLaren returned from Brazil with the news that Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was now ‘ lead singer ’ of the Sex Pistols and someone McLaren earnestly claimed to be the missing Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann was the new bass-guitarist , Branson took it with disarming enthusiasm . |
| 6 | Finance was provided by the ITV companies as a ‘ subscription ’ , and the companies raised it by setting the advertising time on Channel 4 in their own regions . |
| 7 | Riven took it without speaking . |
| 8 | ‘ Angela said the council wanted it for housing ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 11 | Egyptians used it for embalming their dead , the Mesopotamians used it as perfume and the Romans thought it was an aphrodisiac . |
| 12 | Christmas came , and the German officers celebrated it by singing ‘ Heilige Nacht ’ and drinking heavily in the Casa Gandini , which they still occupied . |
| 13 | She could n't quite remember when it was that she 'd realized Georg took it for granted they 'd get married as soon as she was old enough . |
| 14 | After a Goodwood win last May Brittain considered it worth letting him take his chance in the Budweiser Irish Derby in which he finished eighth to St Jovite and Dr Devious . |
| 15 | The Prince inherited it upon becoming Prince of Wales and will lose it if and when he becomes King . |
| 16 | A thickly built oak and beechwood sixteenth-seventeenth century refectory table from the Pyrenees , admittedly characterful ( Tajan 's auction staff used it for stacking their telephones on ) but more than difficult to place in a modern apartment , sold for FFr650,000 ( £67,550 ; $117,500 ) , over twice its high estimate . |
| 17 | It is evident that Lakatos took it for granted that physics constitutes the paradigm of rationality and good science . |
| 18 | Even Nanny took it for granted . |
| 19 | You can see how Dorothy Sayers did it by having the victim being supposed to be actively painting when in fact he was dead , and it is by using some such piece of lateral thinking , making the victim provide the alibi in this instance , that the trick is probably most easily brought off . |
| 20 | That there is no third kind is crucial for the denial that Reason has the sort of task which Newton assigned it in detecting the underlying order of things . |
| 21 | Even Crosland took it for granted , in trying to disarm those critics who argued that comprehensives would damage standards , that pupils who would have gone to grammar schools would of course still be taught with those of their contemporaries who would also have gone to grammar schools . |
| 22 | But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins . |
| 23 | It is disappointing that so few teachers thought it worth attending to express their views either on the resolutions put forward or to raise other matters . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nourse LJ thought it worth mentioning Lord Blackburn 's comment , based on Blackstone , that ‘ the sheriff also was bound to raise the hue and cry , and call out the posse comitatus of the county whenever it was necessary for any police purposes ; in so doing he was acting for the Crown ’ . |
| 26 | Some deputies accused it of giving away too many powers to the regions . |
| 27 | The Hepplewhite Guide was influential beyond England , in America , in Denmark , where J. C. Lillie used it in designing chairs for Liselund in 1793 , and in Germany , where F. G. Hoffmann pirated Hepplewhite designs in his Meubles-Magazin ( Leipzig , 1795 ) . |
| 28 | Kilcline got the ball in the net with a header after 80 minutes but the referee Roger Milford disallowed it for pushing . |
| 29 | In so far as its obstinate traditionalism prevented it from doing what political economy required , it had to be made to . |
| 30 | A plausible story , but then Edouard spoiled it by resisting going home . ’ |