Example sentences of "[vb past] it [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
| 4 | Pascoe says that he used it to put an injured dog out of his misery . |
| 5 | They never used it to mean an earthly kingdom in the sense of an area of land which was ruled by God . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was interested to hear Derek remark how much more difficult he found it to cull a larger fry , like the inch plus Angel that had slipped through his quality control . |
| 8 | This pattern is indistinguishable from ‘ fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ described by Davies et al , and like them we found it to portend a bad prognosis . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | I hurried to the Adjutant and he opened it to find an urgent request for a volunteer to serve in Southern Arabia . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The façade is squat and heavy — the architect deliberately lowered it to allow a frontal view of the octagonal tiborium that surmounts the cupola — but it is difficult not to admire the effort that must have gone into it . |
| 19 | They also expected it to show a particular type of magnetic behaviour called paramagnetism because of its isolated electrons — and again , it does . |
| 20 | These right-angled bends in the road , whatever the date of the enclosure award may be , reflect some stage in the medieval colonisation of the parish when a new furlong , brought in from the waste perhaps in the twelfth or the thirteenth century , cut across the direct path to the next village and forced it to make a sudden turn for a few yards before resuming its onward course . |
| 21 | The cat 's owner was leaving the area and could not keep the animal , and she wanted it to have a nice home . |
| 22 | Our new kitchen is not ultra-modern because I wanted it to have an old look and homely feel . |
| 23 | The corporation chose the former ; the agency fined it $500,000 and instructed it to spend a further $200,000 in corrective advertising . |