Example sentences of "[vb past] it [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He swivelled it to check the outside wall . |
| 5 | Listening , she opened it to greet the sandy-haired man who rose to his feet from behind the desk . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | William the Conqueror meant it to impress the rebellious Londoners with his power , as well as protecting them . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This enabled it to survive the mass defection of four consultants — equal to almost half their team — led by David Norman in 1982–3 . |
| 10 | Merlyn had shown it once , saying they kept it to protect the valuable things they bought . |
| 11 | He wanted it to replace the official versions in the liturgy . |