Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without specifying whether the state would grant the Roman Catholic Church legal recognition , Salinas undertook to promote it to a " new legal position " . |
| 2 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 3 | Everything about the odd relic suggested that Morthen had left it as a deliberate sign . |
| 4 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 5 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 6 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 7 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 8 | However , whereas Chatterjee had left it as an interesting hypothesis , Jones and Palmer had designed an experiment right away to try and simulate the effect in the lab . |
| 9 | The plant , David , had died although Rachaela had put it in a window . |
| 10 | Ruth had felt it from the moment he had picked her up at the hotel and once again they had headed for the Cartuja site of the Expo . |
| 11 | The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person . |
| 12 | Swire intended to make it into a top-class regional airline serving cities in the East and Australia . |
| 13 | ‘ Had you and Mrs Marshall planned to use it as a weekend retreat , perhaps ? |
| 14 | Lord Denning sought to avoid it on a number of occasions , the most notable case being Davis v. Johnson [ 1978 ] 2 WLR 182 ( CA ) . |
| 15 | The Shah had imagined it as a modern version of the Congress of Vienna of 1815 , where the rulers of the world could meet and discuss matters of great import . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism . |
| 17 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 18 | Stephen had seen it from the window of his room , its red , white and blue vivid in the twilight . |
| 19 | Dolly had reduced it to the size of an irregular-sided marble . |
| 20 | Ironically , 25-year-old Josephine had made it as a TV star when Craig was a pipe layer dreaming of fame . |
| 21 | Joseph had made it through the gate , but was cornered by the populace in an alley . |
| 22 | In despair at the greasiness of her hair , Daisy had washed it in the river — how the hell had women coped in biblical times ? — and it had dried all crinkly . |
| 23 | They said the PLO chairman , Yasser Arafat , had discussed the proposal with the Egyptian president , Hosni Mubarak , in Cairo on Wednesday and Egypt had put it to the United States . |
| 24 | Trotsky refused to describe it as a ruling class since it did not own the means of production : it had ‘ neither stocks nor bonds . |
| 25 | When , during a home game in February 1927 , Hardy shouted from the touchline to a player to move up-field , Chapman chose to regard it as a breach of his authority and arranged for Hardy to move to Tottenham , where a vacancy had conveniently arisen . |
| 26 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 27 | They later discovered he 'd broken his leg in a road accident 6 weeks earlier , and although Odey had taken it to the vet he 'd ignored advice to have it operated on . |
| 28 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 29 | Yet Alfred had chosen it as a place to die and David had said of his father : ‘ … for him it is one of those special places . ’ |
| 30 | Charles tried to make it down the stairs with his eyes closed to allay the pain . |