Example sentences of "[noun prp] [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 | Barney took it for granted Yanto would have a cup , and made a signal to his wife through the kitchen window . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Riven took it without speaking . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is evident that Lakatos took it for granted that physics constitutes the paradigm of rationality and good science . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Kilcline got the ball in the net with a header after 80 minutes but the referee Roger Milford disallowed it for pushing . |
| 14 | A plausible story , but then Edouard spoiled it by resisting going home . ’ |
| 15 | Magritte did it by playing with paradox : day and night both ; picture and landscape both . |
| 16 | The paper reports being told by another Microsoft competitor that Novell approached it about joining a potential independent antitrust suit against Microsoft . |
| 17 | Fergie muffed it by buying an Irishman — Keane — instead of an English player . |