Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the church was despoiled of its marble wall covering in the fifteenth century when Alberti used it to enrich the Cathedral of Rimini . |
| 2 | Brent Walker said it expected the buyout negotiations ‘ would be successfully completed shortly ’ . |
| 3 | The DoE believed it had the decision to join the 30 per cent Club ‘ in the bag ’ and briefed journalists to that effect . |
| 4 | North Korea said it rejected the resolution , and would regard sanctions as a declaration of war . |
| 5 | The BBC said it regarded the criticisms as ‘ unfair , ’ and said the majority of shows would be coming from Stockton . |
| 6 | The American biologist Garrett Hardin used it to summarize the message of what may be called ‘ sociobiology ’ or ‘ selfish genery ’ . |
| 7 | But the UN Protection Force in Bosnia said it welcomed the UN move , despite the possibility it may increase military tension on the ground . |
| 8 | Wimpey said it believed the figures , published yesterday , were the low point in its fortunes . |
| 9 | Cllr Johnston said it took the city solicitor 's department two hours to find the application forms , after he had asked why interviews had not been held . |
| 10 | AT&T said it expected the change on future earnings to be negligible and added that there would be no effect on cash flow . |
| 11 | The UTU said it regretted the Department had gradually reduced severance enhancement levels as a result of severe criticism of the retirement scheme by the Comptroller and Auditor General and the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee . |
| 12 | ‘ One of the Hamiltons burnt it to get the insurance and made a mess of it . |
| 13 | AMA social services committee chairman Toby Harris said it confirmed the DoH viewed the changes through rose-tinted spectacles . |
| 14 | Andrew Saxton 's colleague Andrew Davies said it appeared the Sports Council was still convinced the men were guilty . |
| 15 | The DoE said it considered the road to be ‘ capable of carrying the existing and projected traffic volumes for the foreseeable future ’ . |
| 16 | Spokesman Michael Ritchie said it appeared the judges had agreed a crisis situation required crisis measures . |
| 17 | The Council did not discuss the morality of methods of contraception because Pope Paul asked it to leave the matter to his own special commission . |
| 18 | Brenner used it to identify the relations between macroeconomic variables and the measures of national health during the economic cycles that took place in the course of several decades . |