Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness , he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness . |
| 2 | ‘ But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind called Euroclydon . |
| 3 | He withdrew from it a rare bound second volume of Palestine Illustrated by François Schotten , published in Paris in 1929 . |
| 4 | Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown . |
| 5 | At first I thought about it a good deal , naturally , and the more I thought the more I liked it . |
| 6 | But when she thought about it an odd picture came into her head ; a picture of herself innocently lifting the lid of a box and letting out a dark , shapeless shadow … |
| 7 | It brought with it a wrinkled piece of brown paper tumbling down the street . |
| 8 | His recent return to England brought with it a 120-day qualification ban and he admitted : ‘ This game will be crucial because I need the extra edge . |
| 9 | Carefully Dalziel reached into his inside pocket and took from it a large envelope . |
| 10 | Fabia watched as , dropping the dog lead on to a large kitchen table , the dark man addressed a few remarks to the woman who then went to a drawer and took from it a large tin box and brought it to him . |
| 11 | They saw in it a narrative paradigm which offered the possibility of meaning in their individual experience to all men . |
| 12 | He picked up his pipe and blew on it a descending series of shrill notes that scarred the tepid surface of the afternoon . |
| 13 | The work is enormous — comparisons with the second piano concerto are entirely justified , as familiar melodic and rhythmical thematic material pounds in the ears — and Conway and Evans brought to it a satisfying feel of sonority and stature . |
| 14 | I stared at it a long time . |
| 15 | Unfortunately it bought with it a heavy infestation of ‘ Bundesbank ’ cockroaches , sponsored by the cockroach travel company . |
| 16 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 17 | He spoke these words in French , and it was the French , somehow , that carried with it a particular poignancy for me . |
| 18 | In fact all matter had within it a divine spark of life . |
| 19 | It had on it an enormous photo of Bernard in hot pursuit of a cartoon of two bikini clad girls . |