Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 2 | Alcock found it within one minute of starting his regular binocular search of the sky , after nine nights of cloud . |
| 3 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 4 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 5 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 6 | Where Ann wrote it for last year , for my ri |
| 7 | Margaret Irwin cited it as another process from which women were excluded for what seemed to her good reason : " It requires both muscular strength and a certain " knack " . |
| 8 | Giles Aplin examined it with some interest before consigning it to a buttoned pocket without comment . |
| 9 | These did not fruit well at Chelsea but by now the tomato , also known as the love-apple , had become well known in England ( it had been introduced in the sixteenth century , when Gerard considered it of little value ) and was much used in soups . |
| 10 | Crossman joined it on 29th April 1969 . |
| 11 | The trouble with Cabinet was not that Harold ran it through little cabals , but that there was no focal point of decision-making at all . |
| 12 | There are frequent references to it in Anglo-Saxon writings , and the Greeks and Romans made much use of it ; the Greek army doctor Dioscorides listed it amongst medical herbs , and Pliny also describes it . |
| 13 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 14 | Omi crooked a finger for the waitress who offered the bill with subtle deference , and Omi paid it with subtle superiority . |
| 15 | Jesus put it in these words , ‘ If any man would come after me , let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. , |
| 16 | Mr. Gordon had persuaded Sir George Phillips , who was a rather crabby old man , to let them use the Park for their meetings , but , all the same , Judy had the feeling that Mr. Gordon did it for Brown Owl and not at all for the Brownies . |
| 17 | Rose said it with such empathy that all criticism was stopped . |
| 18 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 19 | Connon read it with one sweep of the eyes . |
| 20 | When I expressed my distaste , Gustave interpreted it as mere jealousy . |
| 21 | Three legends share the quickest century but Bernard Ganley , David Watkins and Steve Quinn did it in 18 games . |
| 22 | This was an entirely legitimate and historically well-founded practice , but Nixon carried it to extreme lengths , seeing it as a way both to cut back on federal expenditure and to impose his own order of spending priorities . |
| 23 | Subsequently Ortman dived it to 500 mph plus , but flutter caused it to break up and he used his parachute . |
| 24 | Lieutenant Calley seized it by one leg , flung it back into the ditch and shot it . |
| 25 | It took another two years before Picker offered it to English director John Schlesinger . |
| 26 | Standing on opposite sides of the pile , Mina and Kāli beat it with wooden spades , softening the clay and mixing in the cow-dung . |
| 27 | Christina sweetened it with two spoonfuls of golden local cane sugar . |
| 28 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 29 | Dalgliesh raised it with careful fingers touching only the extreme edge of the cloth and saw underneath a smudge of blood on the carpet about two centimetres long and thicker at the right end than at the left . |
| 30 | The original Model X ( NR49V ) was known also as the Cirrus Derby Racer and Lowell Bayles flew it into second Place in the 1930 All-America Derby . |