Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets . |
| 2 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |
| 3 | When Neil Kinnock complained that soldiers were forced to leave their guts on Goose Green to show Mrs Thatcher had guts of her own , the Tories used it to mount a massive propaganda campaign against him . |
| 4 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
| 5 | Recently I used it to stick a plastic-coated wire rack to the inside of a kitchen cupboard door while I checked the position of the rack with the door closed . |
| 6 | Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation . |
| 7 | This pattern is indistinguishable from ‘ fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ described by Davies et al , and like them we found it to portend a bad prognosis . |
| 8 | He seems to have found it more difficult to extrapolate remote , romantic adventures from the complex , changing world of the 1920s and after than Anthony Hope found it to transport a late-Victorian man-about-town to a small Central European kingdom . |
| 9 | On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles . |
| 10 | Myra gave her a gaily wrapped parcel , and Claudia opened it to find a beautiful silk scarf printed with white and pink roses on a jade-green background . |
| 11 | As a mineral , corundum has proved its value to man partly as an abrasive , which allowed it to play a key role in the shaping of jade , and partly because it has contributed two of the most keenly sought after transparent coloured gems , sapphire and ruby . |
| 12 | Without this exodus of labour from Southern Europe , which allowed it to reconstruct a reserve army at home , West German capitalism would have been unable to achieve its formidable expansion of outputs in the 1960s without a catastrophic decline in the rate of profit . |
| 13 | The American Sixth Fleet is more powerful than Soviet naval groupings in the Mediterranean and as previously observed it fulfils a strategic role which is denied the Soviet navy in this region . |
| 14 | On March 27 the Russian Supreme Soviet rejected the government 's draft budget for the second quarter of 1992 and ordered it to present a new version in April . |
| 15 | So we drew a cow on it and signed it to start a new trend . |
| 16 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 17 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
| 18 | Although the member States had created the Council , once established it became a separate entity with its own international executive . |
| 19 | A spark of hope was rekindled in him , as his eye traced the faint line and saw it formed a two-foot square . |
| 20 | Jess felt it like a physical blow . |
| 21 | ‘ Children have been used up to this because we felt it showed a non-violent style . ’ |
| 22 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 23 | The Bonn family financed the Bureau for a number of years and enabled it to recruit a small staff which laid the foundations for the development of the organisation into what it is to-day . |
| 24 | Detailing the design features that gave the Connie its unique shape the film goes on to show the various changes and marks of the Connie that enabled it to become a flying legend in civil and military use . |
| 25 | Profitable as the business was , the brothers knew it had a limited lifespan . |
| 26 | I had heard the word before , and knew it meant a cruel punishment often used by pirates — leaving a man alone on some distant , empty island . |
| 27 | From that moment he had had respect for Blanche : he knew it took a rare combination of self-confidence and courage to admit she had been wrong . |
| 28 | I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour . |
| 29 | Yes that you said it er Pat thought it seemed a good thing , the way you were saying it |
| 30 | I thought it seemed a funny thing to do . |