Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come upon it in thumbing through The Writers and Artists Yearbook ; it seems to have been an Anglo-Catholic journal . |
| 2 | The man known as Helvetius might have produced gold which withstood the tests of assayers , but Bernard Trevisan was duped out of a fortune before finally performing the magnum opus , and Thomas Norton prepared the Elixir twice and was twice robbed of it before dying in poverty . |
| 3 | For instance , the whole of the letter A could be keyboarded from OED , and then the whole of the Supplement 's A section could be merged into it before proceeding to B , and so on . |
| 4 | BSDI bases its claims of no-licence-required on representations made to it in writing by the University 's Computer Systems Research Group . |
| 5 | Doctors protect themselves against even the remote possibility of failing to spot a disease and being sued for it by sending their patients for every test in the book . |
| 6 | Traditionally a signet ring , with a family crest engraved on it for marking wax seals , was the only jewellery worn by a man . |
| 7 | You can get , you get yeah you can get tied into it without realizing it . |
| 8 | The same sentiment appears in Lagunas Nitrate Company v Lagunas Syndicate , where it is suggested , somewhat eccentrically , that effect might be given to it by allowing the directors to plead the defence of volenti non fit iniuria . |
| 9 | It was held that the agreement was void and that effect could not be given to it by rejecting the general restraint which appeared in it and limiting the agreement for the purposes of the action to carrying on the business of a tailor . |
| 10 | Where a company is registered in Scotland a summons may be served on it by leaving it at , or by sending it by post to , its principal place of business in England or Wales addressed to the manager or head officer and by further posting a copy to the registered office ( s 725(2) and ( 3 ) Companies Act 1985 ) . |
| 11 | The Fed is still sore from the criticism thrown at it for pushing America into recession ; if it tightens policy before official figures show inflation to be rising , it will come under fierce political attack . |
| 12 | KPMG will have due regard to any reasonable request which the offeror may make in relation to any claim subject to the offeror indemnifying and securing KPMG in a manner satisfactory to KPMG against any and all costs , charges and expenses incurred by it in complying with any such request . |
| 13 | When dreams are recalled during the day , it would therefore be the most salient points that would be recalled , and the colour detail , which would have been available if the dreamer had been questioned about it on awakening , will have been forgotten . |
| 14 | Once you decide to get rid of a Windows application , it 's vital to make copies of any important data you 've created with it to make copies of any important data you 've created with it before embarking on a ‘ slash and burn ’ policy . |
| 15 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |
| 16 | It was now that the Greeks ( illiterate for several centuries , since the clumsy syllabary evolved in the later Bronze Age had died with the social system it served ) borrowed the suppler consonantal alphabet developed by the Phoenicians and improved on it by using some of the symbols for vowels . |