Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Hailsham , however , used twentieth century reasoning and applied it to nineteenth century cases . |
| 2 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 3 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 4 | In 1733 , the Apothecaries erected a marble statue by Rysbrack to their most generous benefactor and placed it in one of the rooms of the orange house , but in 1748 it was moved to the centre of the garden , where a replica stands today . |
| 5 | It was as if the attacking force had drawn back their battering-ram and steadied it for one final assault . |
| 6 | The International Herald Tribune of April 28 reported that the US government had for more than two years had evidence that Iraq had diverted food purchased under a US$5,500 million aid programme and exchanged it for Soviet-made arms in Jordan , Turkey and the Soviet Union , including nuclear technology according to a confidential US document dated Oct. 13 , 1989 . |
| 7 | It would be interesting to know , however , whether the intensity of the debate at the time served to sear the official mind and closed it for many years afterwards to consideration of an alternative policy for sterling which substantially reduced its international role . |
| 8 | Suspected Sendero guerrillas threw dynamite into his car and sprayed it with machine-gun fire . |
| 9 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |
| 10 | The bewitchment , if any , had evaporated as soon as those black eyes had extinguished that first interested glance and substituted it for one of rampant dislike . |
| 11 | Er they had a lock , made it a good lock and sent it to all the clients and this is what we can supply , and it used to meet the needs of clients and they 'd er they 'd erm buy it and it kept them in business , you see what I mean ? |
| 12 | The amount of RNA synthesized was unrelated to motor activity or any measure of stress that we could identify ( for instance how much the birds peeped or twittered ) , but it was strongly correlated with their preference score ; that is , the more the chicks had learned about the flashing light and preferred it to any alternative , the more RNA was synthesized in their forebrain roof . |
| 13 | Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors , but oh dear ! |
| 14 | The authors who began to write about rape and related it to male power , male supremacy and male sexuality , questioned what they saw to be the essentialist constructions of female sexuality which continued to predominate within the age of sexual revolution . |
| 15 | After a patchy opening the Canadian International tipped a Mark Holman blockbuster onto the bar and followed it with two more notable saves to deny Ricky Munroe and Stuart Massey . |
| 16 | Matthew had made his fire plan and cleared it with chief officer of the Wellingham fire brigade . |
| 17 | But as more unwanted probings prodded , she was set to seriously wonder if indeed it was good enough to have called at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and left it at that . |
| 18 | He reached for the case and took it in both hands . |
| 19 | It was in light of this experience of priests who were barely capable of understanding the Latin Vulgate and Mass , or who juggled with a text and expounded it in such a way as to obscure its original meaning , that Tyndale now decided to translate the New Testament into English ‘ because I had perceived by experience , how that it was impossible to establish the lay-people in any truth , except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother-tongue ’ . |
| 20 | A fortnight later Edward sealed the text and issued it to all sheriffs . |
| 21 | Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel . |
| 22 | It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George . |
| 23 | Casually it beat the fish into stillness on the branch and swallowed it in one gulp . |
| 24 | It was all she had left now , so she had thanked her sister and left it at that . |
| 25 | Encouraged by these findings we have formulated a bismuth enema and compared it with 5-ASA enemas in patients with active distal colitis to examine the therapeutic effect . |
| 26 | As he dumped his case in the pleasant bedroom , lifted the lid and left it at that , he reflected . |
| 27 | In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers . |
| 28 | ‘ You mean , if you cut that picture up into four — which would be a distinctly pro-life act if you want my opinion and gave it to four different restorers , they 'd each stop at a different point ? ’ |
| 29 | The orgasmic bellowing began when I got the car into a slide as the track began to get wet with rain and caught it with opposite lock . |
| 30 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |