Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |
| 2 | Last year Philips petitioned Brussels for this price rise , without even telling Sony , the Japanese company that helped it develop the digital disc system . |
| 3 | They were laid on a table before the canopied throne and an Act of Parliament became law only when the King , or his Commissioners , took up the Sceptre and used it to touch the relevant document . |
| 4 | The study 's thesis was that Attlee built on the Whitehall machine constructed in the Second World War and used it to implement the Labour Party 's reform programme . |
| 5 | He used it to describe the new age of Western history which , according to Toynbee , began in the 1870s with the simultaneous globalization of Western culture and the re-empowerment of non-Western states . |
| 6 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 7 | He swivelled it to check the outside wall . |
| 8 | Listening , she opened it to greet the sandy-haired man who rose to his feet from behind the desk . |
| 9 | Those who are inclined towards reform reversal , place much more weight on the way the long dominance of the Conservative LDP party allowed it to pack the Supreme Court with its own nominees , so that the independence of the Judiciary is a myth . |
| 10 | William the Conqueror meant it to impress the rebellious Londoners with his power , as well as protecting them . ’ |
| 11 | They felt it emphasised the Polish presence in the city . |
| 12 | Because once costed it represents the estimated fee for the group 's involvement in a project , either in the form of an appointment contract for the client to sign . |
| 13 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 14 | This enabled it to survive the mass defection of four consultants — equal to almost half their team — led by David Norman in 1982–3 . |
| 15 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 16 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 17 | They thought it included the contrary proposition that the law did not protect the fish . |
| 18 | Merlyn had shown it once , saying they kept it to protect the valuable things they bought . |
| 19 | Yesterday the National Audit Office , the official public spending watchdog , admitted it missed the legal aid bill — run up as Mr Lamont evicted a sex therapist from his flat — when it went through the Treasury accounts . |
| 20 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |
| 21 | Did it exploit the clashing elements of land and water , feeding on our anxiety at the concept of amphibianism ? |
| 22 | Not only did it furnish the missing equation of the Keynesian system , it had also assumed a role of paramount significance in the formulation of macroeconomic policy . |
| 23 | Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’ |
| 24 | Nor did it provide the detailed information on local labour markets , particularly at the occupational level , that would have been necessary to make a fuller judgement . |
| 25 | The conquest of Egypt and Cyrenaica as far west as Euesperides ( not far from Benghazi ) by the Persian Kambyses did not entail the overthrow of the Battiads , nor did it interrupt the cultural traffic of Dorian Cyrene with Ionian Attica . |
| 26 | Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something . |
| 27 | Nor did it remove the old ones . |
| 28 | ‘ If you promise not to tell anyone , ’ Margaret said , when she finally got to see a doctor , ‘ I nearly had it done the old way , you know , with a knitting needle , then I lost my nerve . ’ |
| 29 | The group said it deplores the alleged theft . |
| 30 | I merely said it avoided the real issue . ’ |