Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to judge how much weight should be given to such utterances ; was the designation ‘ northerner ’ intended to be purely geographical and descriptive , or did it reflect a feeling that these were men almost of a different race ? |
| 2 | Did that commingling of unrelated flavours remind me of another dish , or had it produced a breakthrough in gastronomy ? |
| 3 | Nor did it prevent the preservation of this category in the language of special education many years after its legal obliteration , in the acronym MLD ( moderate learning difficulties ) , used in many of the same contexts for many of the same purposes , but without , as yet , the abusive tone that came to be associated with its predecessor . |
| 4 | Nor did it want the return of a population that would dissent from the Zionist identity of the state and threaten it demographically . |
| 5 | The debate had no practical importance , nor did it influence the direction and methods of further research . |
| 6 | This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology . |
| 7 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 8 | Nor did it follow a period of economic and demographic stagnation . |
| 9 | Yet the statute did not in practice provide the absolute ban which it seemed to promise , nor did it deprive the church of acquisitions . |
| 10 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 11 | That fat kid from the Double Deckers who played the tuba and made it look the size of a bag of crisps … what is he up to now ? |
| 12 | She collected some of his saliva from the ground and used it make a serpent . |
| 13 | The older woman pulled out a tray of handguns , and used it to push the glasses and drinks off the bar . |
| 14 | But he said Cardow ‘ had come armed with a lethal weapon and used it to penetrate the deceased 's body nine times . ’ |
| 15 | Believing this to be the case , Roshanara stole the Imperial seal and used it to forge an order that proclaimed Aurangzeb 's nine-year-old youngest son to be the next Emperor in preference to the rightful heir . |
| 16 | To achieve this Lazarsfeld borrowed a notion from mathematics and logic , that of the variable , and used it to create a way of thinking about social science in both its theoretical and empirical aspects . |
| 17 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 18 | We produced an attractive new leaflet and used it to launch a recruitment campaign . |
| 19 | When David overcame the Ammonites , we are told ‘ he took the crown of the king off his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold and there were priceless stones in it ; and it was set on David 's head ’ . |
| 20 | The move cut across the efforts of SEMS , and stopped it achieving the sales it had hoped for . |
| 21 | So late in the second set , she walked across the scoreboard and changed it to show the match going in her favour . |
| 22 | He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me . |
| 23 | He slid his hands into the sleeves , and lifted it to turn the back to the light , and for a few minutes stood studying it closely . |
| 24 | I went to the shed , got the kite , walked a way along the dunes and assembled it battered a tent-peg into the ground , tied the nylon tcJ it , then flew the kite on a short string for a while . |
| 25 | Immediately a hand was placed firmly over her head and turned it to face the front again . |
| 26 | From the yard where the cart was kept , Rosa heard the Small splosh in the bucket after Sabina had placed the bird between her legs and slitted it to pull the guts . |
| 27 | He recalled Congress for a special session and challenged it to enact the Republican programme . |
| 28 | A BOMB disposal squad was called to blow up a suspect suitcase at Whitby railway station at the weekend — and discovered it contained a cornet and sheet music . |
| 29 | I knew a south London teacher who invented an instant tradition of local environmental walks to remedy this deficiency , and called it Beating the Bounds of the Catchment Area . |
| 30 | Then she ruffled the parakeet 's crest and watched it peck a sunflower seed . |