Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accept it required a whole sociology of crime . |
| 2 | When Taylor acquired his Coniston lease it excluded a small sett previously granted to one Mathew Spedding . |
| 3 | Although the affair was soon forgotten it took a long time for Phil to live down that one ! |
| 4 | My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked . |
| 5 | Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation . |
| 6 | MIPS says it made a strong effort at the beginning to get the SCO on very favourable terms but the sponsorship just was n't there . |
| 7 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 8 | D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills . |
| 9 | Siemens AG says it won a Bulgarian contract worth more than $6.3m to modernise and expand the country 's telephone systems : Siemens will deliver more than 80,000 EWSD digital exchange lines and fibre cable : its Digicom Bulgarian joint venture set up last year with a local partner , will install the kit in Sophia and in northern Bulgaria by 1996 . |
| 10 | Dun says it weighed a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't need SQL programming skills . |
| 11 | So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything . |
| 12 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
| 13 | That a gentleman should do it showed an uncommon understanding of the difficulties involved in running businesses with too much debt outstanding . |
| 14 | On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles . |
| 15 | But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold . |
| 16 | A Grand Jury in California handed up indictments against two officers of Symantec Corp alleging that they stole trade secrets from Borland International Inc after a six-month investigation by the district attorney 's office of Santa Cruz County , California into the allegations that a Borland officer brought confidential company material with him when he left Borland to join Symantec ; Symantec says that last it hired an independent law firm to look into the charges , and it was given the opinion that there was no crime committed and that none of the items constitute trade secrets . |
| 17 | Some of the sacked workers were delighted at news of the departure , saying it removed a major obstacle to settling the bitter five-month row . |
| 18 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 19 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 20 | Although the member States had created the Council , once established it became a separate entity with its own international executive . |
| 21 | I believe it had a thatched roof and it was such a bonny place , but it has sadly been derelict for years . |
| 22 | I believe it provided a turning point . |
| 23 | I guess it made a stimulating change for him not to be surrounded by fawners and flatterers the whole time . |
| 24 | In so doing it reversed an earlier commitment , made in 1988 in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster [ see pp. 36161 ; 34831 ] , to begin the shut-down of the country 's 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 . |
| 25 | A spark of hope was rekindled in him , as his eye traced the faint line and saw it formed a two-foot square . |
| 26 | ‘ Children have been used up to this because we felt it showed a non-violent style . ’ |
| 27 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 28 | Profitable as the business was , the brothers knew it had a limited lifespan . |
| 29 | I had heard the word before , and knew it meant a cruel punishment often used by pirates — leaving a man alone on some distant , empty island . |
| 30 | From that moment he had had respect for Blanche : he knew it took a rare combination of self-confidence and courage to admit she had been wrong . |