Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Last year Philips petitioned Brussels for this price rise , without even telling Sony , the Japanese company that helped it develop the digital disc system . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | He swivelled it to check the outside wall . |
7 | Listening , she opened it to greet the sandy-haired man who rose to his feet from behind the desk . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | William the Conqueror meant it to impress the rebellious Londoners with his power , as well as protecting them . ’ |
10 | They felt it emphasised the Polish presence in the city . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | This enabled it to survive the mass defection of four consultants — equal to almost half their team — led by David Norman in 1982–3 . |
14 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
15 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
16 | They thought it included the contrary proposition that the law did not protect the fish . |
17 | Merlyn had shown it once , saying they kept it to protect the valuable things they bought . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Did it exploit the clashing elements of land and water , feeding on our anxiety at the concept of amphibianism ? |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . ’ |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something . |
26 | Nor did it remove the old ones . |
27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
28 | The group said it deplores the alleged theft . |
29 | I merely said it avoided the real issue . ’ |
30 | In a joint press conference with Darlington borough council , the YMCA said it hoped the 30-bed hostel in Melland Street , off Borough Road would be open in spring , 1994 . |