Example sentences of "[pron] it [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel has just completed its first year of operation , which it celebrated with a month-long daily cake-cutting ceremony . |
| 2 | The steel tape had to be cut with wire-cutters , then soldered , and then it had to be ‘ tempered ’ before it could run through the machine — which it did with a loud clang ! |
| 3 | The failure of the North-South Dialogue showed The South that The North — by which they meant the West — did have a coherent distinctiveness : power , financial , technological and military power which it protected with a specialized technological language unintelligible to anyone outside its closed circle except the Brown and Black Sahibs in The South who had been educated and trained in The North . |
| 4 | And for those , especially within the Movement , for whom it ranked as a burning issue , Hitler 's words were clearly taken as a signal and sanction for further radical action and were increasingly treated as a literal description of what was actually taking place . |
| 5 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 6 | The ANC had earlier resisted a meeting with Inkatha on the grounds that this would lend undue national legitimacy to what it regarded as a Zulu organization with a power base confined largely to Natal province . |
| 7 | We used to picnic below Michel 's tower , it was shut up — they told us it belonged to a French man of letters — it 's more sheltered than the villa . |