Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would all have been uninhabited malarial marshland until the post-war boom made it worth draining . |
| 2 | But the book 's greatest association interest is that another , and greater , poet found it worth studying for its content and craftsmanship . |
| 3 | ‘ Angela said the council wanted it for housing ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Prince inherited it upon becoming Prince of Wales and will lose it if and when he becomes King . |
| 6 | Even Nanny took it for granted . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In so far as its obstinate traditionalism prevented it from doing what political economy required , it had to be made to . |
| 9 | Dad fixed it by removing all four wheels and with an effort we dragged it back into position . |
| 10 | Its evocation of an idealized pre-war era and its commitment to anti-semitism prevented it from joining forces with other maverick Conservative press barons like Rothermere and Beaverbrook . |
| 11 | Erm , when the Bullitt family sought it to published it , it was published , but by that time , the kind of changes that I talked about at the beginning of my lectures , had already occurred in psychoanalysis . |
| 12 | An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ . |