Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Egyptians used it for embalming their dead , the Mesopotamians used it as perfume and the Romans thought it was an aphrodisiac . |
| 4 | Christmas came , and the German officers celebrated it by singing ‘ Heilige Nacht ’ and drinking heavily in the Casa Gandini , which they still occupied . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some deputies accused it of giving away too many powers to the regions . |
| 8 | Others likened it to fainting — a dead faint that switched off all the animal 's faculties . |
| 9 | Environmentalists criticized it for emphasizing improved access to energy supplies while failing to ensure adequate environmental safeguards . |
| 10 | 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 . |