Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] it [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So he decided to add another fifteen knots to the approach speed and give it a go .
2 So Sinead O'Connor — probably our last remaining real rock star , a maverick , a 1000 per cent attack merchant constantly taking convention by the neck and shaking it the way a terrier shakes a rat , the woman who stormed into the Irish PM 's office over the abortion issue , who refused to sing the US national anthem , who correctly pointed out that George Bush leaves Saddam Hussein standing in the mass-murder stakes , who has exposed her own sad past in vivid , gory detail , whose every record has fully stretched and excited the expectations of her audience — has released a version of Loretta Lynn 's maudlin Country classic .
3 A brief encounter with the new range last week convinced me the changes have rejuvenated the car and made it the equal of anything from Munich or Stuttgart .
4 If you do not know what a tree or shrub is , exercise clemency and give it a year 's grace to demonstrate its worth before you turn it over to the axeman .
5 But anyway , we finished the ‘ Space Oddity ’ album and promoted it a bit .
6 Should you want to do some withy and teasel research for yourself , you might visit their willow and wetland centre in Stoke St Gregory where they grow 50 acres of willow and harvest it every winter , when the plants are dormant and the rods measure 8 feet .
7 Now in the House of Lords , she has written her biography and given it a title which could well sum up her life , Fighting All The Way .
8 In modern times interest has centred around what it is about the owl that makes it the target for this hostile treatment .
9 If the doctor helped Mr Mansur , he could be charged under a new Michigan law that makes it a crime to assist a person to commit suicide .
10 He claimed that there had been a bona-fide revival of Gothic architecture during the reign of Queen Victoria , that there was with those who loved architecture and made it the subject of special study ,
11 The methods of testing varies from kit to kit , but most consist of taking a sample of water and adding a few drops of the special reagent or tablet and giving it a shake .
12 Draw up a School Development Plan and renew it every year .
13 In 1910 , the Hon Charles Rothschild purchased 138 hectares of this fenland fragment and declared it a nature reserve .
14 I prised off a scab and gave it the tongue test .
15 ‘ A Phazer is not a miracle design that can take a junk board and make it a killer ’ , Milton said .
16 When I met Jean-Claude I found something in his face , his speech and gestures , that alerted my heart and made it a gift to him .
17 While you can bung a network card into any PC and call it a server , proper file servers are a different kettle of fish and are designed with one main performance criterion : to maximize data throughput .
18 Sure enough he won the lead , drifted up the HVS crux and vouched it a classic .
19 Asthmatics should learn a relaxation technique and practise it every day so that it can be ‘ turned on ’ at will , whenever an attack seems imminent .
20 Even in England , half-inch diameter hail stones are not unknown , and these will smash canopies and ruin the surfaces , causing very expensive damage and making it a matter of luck to get out of the area and down safely .
21 However the very fact that the product has been around for so long and is so well established in the corporate market place that makes it a worth taking seriously .
22 There is a dynamic about poverty that makes it a risk increaser when it interlocks with other factors .
23 There is a dynamic about poverty that makes it a risk increaser when it interlocks with other factors .
24 WHAT is that special quality in a wine that makes it an award winner ?
25 The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years in cleaning up the town and making it the kind of place which is able to compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’
26 Wing and leg it The security , with its metal detectors and baggage searches , would not have disgraced an El Al chicken counter .
27 Realizing the kicks that many men get out of listening to women mouthing obscenities , he set up a unique telephone service to cater for the need and gave it the name Just Filmz Inc .
28 Jacqui 's occupation had n't improved it ; she was n't the sort of girl who immediately revolutionized a place and gave it a woman 's touch ; she just spread her belongings over the widest possible area .
29 Thus the Immigration Acts , beginning with the 1962 Act ‘ took discrimination out of the market place and gave it the sanction of the state .
30 Velvet Crush take their long-term devotion to the Goddesses Of Jangle , Indiedom and Power Pop and give it a bubblegum blast that — of late — only Redd Kross have chewed on more ferociously .
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