Example sentences of "[prep] it [verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've not heard of it getting a summer ascent since . |
| 2 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |
| 3 | Like Pandora 's box , from it came a screw driver , a Stanley knife , scissors and an adjustable spanner , all of which were used to keep the Stoddard Templeton units in tip top condition . |
| 4 | Jaguar plunged 46p to 685p as General Motors confirmed it is in talks that could result in it taking a minority stake . |
| 5 | The heading was subdivided into eight separate sections on such subjects as slavery , women , Plato 's ideal state and the mysteries , and Nietzsche was sufficiently interested in it to produce a draft version for the bulk of the sequence . |
| 6 | Its 180° ( or 60° ) image superimposed upon it forms a star hexagon . |
| 7 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 8 | This would enable Hongkong Bank to avoid paying a packet for goodwill and for it to remain a Hongkong bank while Midland remained British . |
| 9 | Media is all-invasive and , some would say , all-persuasive , but it has a fundamental and significant role in our life for it forms a communication network between communities , between industry and industry and between government and people . |
| 10 | Verity wiggled her bottom , plonked it back down , calmly braked and shifted up to fifth , dawdling along behind the green Parceline truck while she waited for it to overtake an Esso tanker . |
| 11 | We estimate that 150000 men aged 60 to 74 would be required in an evaluative trial for it to have an 80% chance of showing a 20% reduction in mortality over the ensuing 10 years , significant at the 5% level . |
| 12 | The purpose of this statement is to give sufficient information to the Computer Group for it to provide an outline design for the New OED computer system . |
| 13 | ‘ There is a wealth of talent out there in Northern Ireland , ’ said Harry , whose Go For It won a Belfast Telegraph EMA award this year . |
| 14 | Late in the eighteenth century a Glasgow industrialist , David Dale , built a cotton mill here in collaboration with Arkwright ( q.v. ) , and around it built a model village for his workers . |