Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 2 | The bottom room , with Its two huge grinding-wheels of burr-granite propped against the wall and its lingering smell of flour , still held an air of mystery , of time held in abeyance , of a place bereft of its purpose and meaning , so that he never entered it without a slight sense of desolation . |
| 3 | On the following day after the Christians had taken possession of the town , the Cid entered it with a great company , and he ascended the highest tower of the wall , and beheld all the city ; and the Moors came unto him , and kissed his hand , saying he was welcome . |
| 4 | He transformed it into a stately home and filled it with objets d'art from afar . |
| 5 | This house was run down until the owner completely renovated it and redecorated inside and out , and transformed it into an impressive home |
| 6 | Both leaders admitted that several issues remained unresolved by the treaty , but they described it as a good basis for the development of future bilateral relations . |
| 7 | Mrs Gibson described it as a living history book . |
| 8 | Nicholas Winterton , who is planning to abstain in next week 's vote , described it as a short-term fix rather than a long-term solution . |
| 9 | Jesus described it as a spiritual rebirth . |
| 10 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |
| 11 | Lord Taylor , sitting with Mr Justice Pill and Mr Justice Sedley , described it as a tragic case of homicide within a family . |
| 12 | Although Serbian officials dismissed the incident as an outbreak of mass hysteria , Albanians described it as a mass poisoning perpetrated by Serbian nationalists , and anti-Serbian and anti-Montenegrin demonstrations quickly broke out across the province . |
| 13 | President Compaore , in his closing address to the congress , described it as a resounding victory for the Burkinabe people against economic alienation and for more democracy . |
| 14 | Desert Storm commander , General Norman Schwarzkopf described it as an historic day : a day to make it clear who was in charge . |
| 15 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 16 | Some elements in the Argentine military , along with members of the opposition UCR , characterized the abandonment of the missile programme as a capitulation to US demands , and described it as an irresponsible move at a time when Chile was suspected to be seeking a new missile . |
| 17 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 18 | While some described it as an important strengthening of the rights of children , others saw it as a willingness to overturn natural family links in order to pander to a child 's desire to acquire richer parents . |
| 19 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 20 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 21 | She dismissed it with a regal gesture . |
| 22 | When Columbus spotted the crop that was to become the chief source of Virginia 's prosperity , tobacco , he dismissed it as a worthless weed ; he did , on the other hand , find time to remark on the beauty of the nightingales in a country where none exists . |
| 23 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 24 | The court heard Pinnell , now of Halsway Cottage , Crowcombe , Taunton , Somerset , had taken the car on several occasions but on the last one crashed it into a dry stone wall . |
| 25 | Postine subdued it with a single blow to its long wrinkled neck . |
| 26 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 27 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 28 | The company took the name of the new boss , who moved it into the structural market , building bridges , stations , hotels and even piers at Redcar , Bournemouth and Plymouth . |
| 29 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 30 | Phosphatidylethanolamine shifted most of the cholesterol to the vesicular phase while phosphatidylserine moved it to the non-vesicular fraction . |