Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to judge how much weight should be given to such utterances ; was the designation ‘ northerner ’ intended to be purely geographical and descriptive , or did it reflect a feeling that these were men almost of a different race ? |
| 2 | Did that commingling of unrelated flavours remind me of another dish , or had it produced a breakthrough in gastronomy ? |
| 3 | All were matted with puffs of trees ; the bright thread of a waterfall was laid over one , a snail 's silver trail ; and one was crossed by a great rift that made it appear a giant 's helter-skelter . |
| 4 | Nor did it follow a period of economic and demographic stagnation . |
| 5 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 6 | She collected some of his saliva from the ground and used it make a serpent . |
| 7 | To achieve this Lazarsfeld borrowed a notion from mathematics and logic , that of the variable , and used it to create a way of thinking about social science in both its theoretical and empirical aspects . |
| 8 | We produced an attractive new leaflet and used it to launch a recruitment campaign . |
| 9 | When David overcame the Ammonites , we are told ‘ he took the crown of the king off his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold and there were priceless stones in it ; and it was set on David 's head ’ . |
| 10 | He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me . |
| 11 | I went to the shed , got the kite , walked a way along the dunes and assembled it battered a tent-peg into the ground , tied the nylon tcJ it , then flew the kite on a short string for a while . |
| 12 | A BOMB disposal squad was called to blow up a suspect suitcase at Whitby railway station at the weekend — and discovered it contained a cornet and sheet music . |
| 13 | Then she ruffled the parakeet 's crest and watched it peck a sunflower seed . |
| 14 | When it gurgled and died it left a silence deeper than before . |
| 15 | When Bill and Jenny bought it in 1977 , it was in need of a lot of tender loving care — today , much restored and refurbished it has a wealth of beams , stripped pine and attractive brick fireplaces . |
| 16 | The German researchers took a crystal of tungsten diselenide and cleaved it to expose a layer of tungsten atoms which are arranged in a triangular pattern . |
| 17 | He went into her family history and said it explained a lot . |
| 18 | Uproar , laughter , lots of silly grins and had it set a trend ? |