Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
2 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
3 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
4 | Now , in his wonderful aria of lamentation , he brought the whole performance to life and raised it to a higher plane of artistry . |
5 | Increasingly , the authorities became concerned about the adverse effects of this trend and viewed it in a dimmer light . |
6 | The whole incident had been exaggerated with talk of a threat to the institutions of government , and many saw it as a further example of the insensitivity of the Republican administration to the human sufferings of the period . |
7 | The BeSHT did more ; he promoted it to a higher level of importance ; he confirmed and extended the principle of enjoyment , bringing it much more centrally in to the people 's worship as a sense of divine gladness . |
8 | Christopher Columbus did it with a smaller crew than Taylor has tried so far . |
9 | So Nissan replaced it with a snappier car , the Primera . |
10 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
11 | But the technocratic approach did not lessen discrimination but reproduced it in a subtler form . |