Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did it meet the airline 's losses without the latter suffering any real penalty , but it enabled it to pursue its plans to take a 6 billion franc ( 37.5 per cent ) shareholding in the Belgian state-owned carrier Sabena , which was in an equally parlous financial state . |
| 2 | Not only did it designate the nature and appearance of crime , but it also reappeared as causally implicated : in both classical criminology and the new deviance perspective , the amount of crime was primarily a function of the operations of the criminal justice system . |
| 3 | How long did it take the pupils to join in the activity ? 3 . |
| 4 | I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone . |
| 5 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |
| 6 | This gave the borough a corporate personality at law , with the right to sue and be sued , and also empowered it to exclude the shire officials and be directly responsible to the central government . |
| 7 | She also used it to put the fires out . |
| 8 | So Mr Tomlinson kept the 24v wiring and also extended it to power the worklights on the front and rear of the cab . |
| 9 | At first Bakhtin found this quality , otherwise ‘ polyphony ’ or ‘ heteroglossia ’ , to be particularly characteristic of Dostoevsky , but he later extended it to typify the novel as a genre . |
| 10 | George fumbled out the little pinhole torch and watched as Maxim delicately smeared a film of shoe polish on the end of his key then probed ag in and immediately withdrew it to study the marks on the polish . |
| 11 | Where else did it say the roads are blocked Jim ? |
| 12 | As we come to discover and worry about our own lack of autonomy , we discover in the past a similar lack of autonomy but , importantly in the Renaissance , a body of writing which never believed it possessed the power of independent expression in the first place . |