Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Instead of preventing proliferation , it has promoted it by allowing nations to protest innocence while violating the treaty 's inadequate provisions . |
| 3 | His hypothesis explains very nicely why we found the three groups , and he has confirmed it by showing that the preferred axes change with position in the visual field in the manner expected . |
| 4 | He 'd done it by making her question herself , she realised . |
| 5 | All through the '70s I 'd wanted to be in a rock band and I ended up doing it and it was nothing like as exciting as I 'd imagined it from reading and listening to records . |
| 6 | Ruth instinctively clasped Fand 's hand again ; she 'd taken it for granted the half-mortals would be hostile to one of Fincara 's Women . |
| 7 | That if she 'd triggered it by asking questions she might be drowned in the flood of pain that would be released ? |
| 8 | ‘ There are failsafes which should have stopped it from doing this ! ’ |
| 9 | I could n't have spilt it by going whoop ! |
| 10 | Could she have missed it by mistaking it for one of the panelled wardrobes ? |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I have always had reasonable live-in accommodation ( having inspected it before accepting a position ) and , although on certain days I have worked non-stop , on others I have been very quiet and still received the same salary . |
| 14 | This is the wrong side , they must have rewound it without meaning to . |
| 15 | And you should have put it in writing if you 'd wanted to make anything of it ! ’ |
| 16 | I should have taken it for granted there was something the matter . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ So here the plaintiffs left everything to the defendant 's husband ; … and they must take the consequences of his having obtained it without explaining to her or her understanding what she was signing . |
| 18 | various men seem to have caught it from changing their nappies . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On the right , while Italian and German agents were active in Spain and sympathetic to the Spanish right , they can not be said to have exerted pressure upon it or materially to have assisted it in subverting the Republic . |
| 21 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 22 | This huge increase caused concern among many deputies , but Pavlov had justified it by saying that it took account of forthcoming wholesale price rises and would actually represent a fall in real terms . |
| 23 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |
| 24 | He had done it by convening his kin and friends and other nobles in his support . |
| 25 | Ransome Kuti had accused it of instigating the violence in order to thwart the handover to civilian rule scheduled for January 1993 . |
| 26 | I 've used it for carrying pens — you do n't get too many grizzlies or wolves where I live ! |
| 27 | Everyone he had shown it to had described it as brilliant , and by all accounts it was ; rejection hurt . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If they did catch anything they had swallowed it before surfacing . |
| 30 | They described their prosperous neighbours on the Soviet as ‘ very wise and understanding ’ , not only because they had proved it by accumulating a little property , but above all because they were pismennye , or literate . |