Example sentences of "[verb] it [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of context , even readers devoted to the Victorian novel may have difficulty in identifying that house , for they take from the novel that contains it a very different impression , one that has less to do with idyllic life than with decay and death . |
| 2 | She seems to find it a slightly amusing object . |
| 3 | I found it a rather disgusting product of a self-admitted drug damaged brain . |
| 4 | And Gregory : ‘ I found it a tremendously exciting challenge to depict the past as convincingly as I could for the mass-market audience of today . ’ |
| 5 | I found it a very compassionate account of the unrewarding role filled by many in today 's ever-divorcing society . |
| 6 | They behaved towards me as they would to anyone else and I found it a very valuable exposure . |
| 7 | But he found it a very happy time . |
| 8 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 9 | Clarissa loved dancing and found it the most exciting time of her life . |
| 10 | Then the front door bell rang and while Rupert went to answer it a somewhat uneasy conversation started up between the two women and Everard Bone about his wife 's flu and the likelihood or not of his catching it from her . |
| 11 | It was therefore resolved at the 1991 A.G.M. ( after considerable debate ) that the Branch should be formally disestablished , some of the dissenters believing it a politically unfortunate time to take this action . |
| 12 | This is an ideal species to be grown in the background of the tank and will give it a very natural look . |
| 13 | It hopes this will give it a more accurate picture of the actual casualty rate . |
| 14 | If the Institute had been a private company preparing for flotation at the end of 1992 , then its operating surplus of over £600,000 on a turnover of above £8m would have made it a very attractive investment . |
| 15 | ‘ All this has made it a very cut-throat market and we are probably the most competitive company . |
| 16 | Whenever he was shown a new sexual technique , he would use it the very next night on his new partner . |
| 17 | Get out there and give it a jolly good rogering . |
| 18 | The great blocks of nineteenth-century neoclassical building which characterise this part of Pest give it a rather grand manner , though a century of knocks has rather frayed its hauteur . |
| 19 | It is easily visible with the naked eye , and binoculars give it a vaguely cruciform appearance . |
| 20 | Tufted duck and scaup are similar in plumage but the latter 's heavier , more angled head and larger bill give it a less cuddly look ; a tufted duck would make the more suitable ‘ soft toy ’ for a toddler . |
| 21 | The international settings and a word-list in six different languages give it a truly world-wide appeal . |
| 22 | It depends , if you need them they 're involvement then you may have to do it a slightly different way or maybe it 's the case that they have to accept this or that you 're gon na turn them over too . |
| 23 | The company called it the most significant announcement in its personal computer history , adding that it had two aims : firstly , to become the number one in personal systems in Europe ; second , to be the number one supplier and implementor of choice for client-server technology . |
| 24 | That false report was falsely attributed to The Economist in order , we are flattered to suppose , to give it a wholly undeserved credibility . |
| 25 | Style , however , is often misused if the approach is ill-founded or unsystematic , and such failures have tended to give it a rather poor reputation . |
| 26 | The inference is that the ritual remained as a memory in the Middle Ages , if not in actuality , and was linked with historical personages to give it a little more authenticity . |
| 27 | Caboc is a cows ' milk cheese made in small cylindrical shapes and rolled in toasted oatmeal to give it a more distinctive flavour . |
| 28 | Mettwurst is similar to Teewurst but is always made from a mixture of pork and beef , is very smoky and often contains paprika to give it a more spicy flavour . |
| 29 | Did the postwar development of the welfare state remould capitalism to give it a more human face , or were the changes largely cosmetic ? |
| 30 | ‘ I intend to give it a really good go , because I have the opportunity this year which I did n't have last season . ’ |