Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saatchi approach : Southeastern Asset Management , which owns 10.2 per cent of Saatchi & Saatchi , said one or more parties had approached it about a possible restructuring of the advertising group . |
| 2 | Some shops have taken it off the shelves . |
| 3 | It shows that the street has been given to the car and attempts have been made to adjust the child : on finding that the child can not be adjusted parents have removed it from the street . |
| 4 | Even so , few companies have embraced it with the down-and-dirty relish of Converse — another spot features a girl getting the brand 's logo tatooed on her bottom . |
| 5 | The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies . |
| 6 | ‘ Now that buyers have seen it on the Paris catwalks , it 's appearing again on the high street . |
| 7 | The relationships of Cuscuta are still uncertain ; on the basis of its flower structure , most taxonomists have placed it in the Convolvulaceae , the bindweed family , but Arthur Cronquist , in his Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants ( 1968 ) , gives it its own family , the Cuscutaceae . |
| 8 | A circle of light illuminated the group gathered round the bank of screens ; another shone on the blue box , the battered structure that the Doctor call his TARDIS , standing where the androids had left it near the edge of the room . |
| 9 | Originally a woodshed , the previous owners had converted it into a thatched extension that is now lined with books . |
| 10 | Fashion editors had used it as an exotic background to collections of fabulous clothes . |
| 11 | But when editors have seen it in the States they 've been very impressed but find it difficult to use . |
| 12 | Warner 's only chance with Black Fury would have been if the serious critics had hailed it as a masterpiece and as a great breakthrough , but on this occasion the critics were all too aware of the stresses and strains that had been created by the processing of an authentic theme into a melodramatic format . |
| 13 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 14 | The assembly was dissolved in 1986 because the remaining Protestant members had turned it into a forum for opposing the Anglo-Irish Agreement signed in November 1985 . |
| 15 | The wording with which section 2 of the Homicide Act 1957 introduced diminished responsibility is rather unsatisfactory , but judges , counsel , doctors , and juries have approached it with a compassionate pragmatism rather than with the rarefied verbal analysis too frequently encountered in English criminal law . |
| 16 | Antiracist educators have read it in a simplistic manner , however , much to the detriment of their pedagogic project . |
| 17 | Various critics have likened it to a Tesco 's superstores ! |
| 18 | Aviemore , the Highland village on the fringe of the Cairngorms , was planned as a tasteful , Alpine-style centre , but garish commercial developments have turned it into a dump . |
| 19 | Presumably she bolted the door after her for that was how the police had found it in the morning . |
| 20 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 21 | Police have described it as a text book operation and are delighted with the result . |
| 22 | The police have described it as a miraculous escape . |
| 23 | More important , although most Marxist thinkers have taken it as a model , it provides no reliable guide to future social transformations . |
| 24 | Western statesmen had perceived it as a Soviet device to prise the United States and Western Europe apart . |
| 25 | As far as I know , there are no other examples of ex GWR design main line engines having made it along the North Wales coast , and I for one will follow with interest the happenings of February 29th 1992 . |
| 26 | Addressing a press conference on June 23 , French Finance Minister Pierre Bérégovoy said that while some countries favoured associate membership for the Soviet Union , others had regarded it as a transitional status . |
| 27 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 28 | Others have compared it to the sensitivity of the medium and the magnetism of the hypnotist . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ A conical peak impaling heaven ’ is how George Borrow described it , while others have likened it to the Matterhorn . |
| 30 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |