Example sentences of "[vb past] it [to-vb] [art] [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 | Then General Dynamics used it to demonstrate a ground-based air defense application . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Christian used it to open a small gallery as soon as he left Oxford . |
| 7 | Pascoe says that he used it to put an injured dog out of his misery . |
| 8 | They never used it to mean an earthly kingdom in the sense of an area of land which was ruled by God . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This pattern is indistinguishable from ‘ fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ described by Davies et al , and like them we found it to portend a bad prognosis . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He swivelled it to check the outside wall . |
| 14 | Listening , she opened it to greet the sandy-haired man who rose to his feet from behind the desk . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I hurried to the Adjutant and he opened it to find an urgent request for a volunteer to serve in Southern Arabia . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So we drew a cow on it and signed it to start a new trend . |
| 22 | William the Conqueror meant it to impress the rebellious Londoners with his power , as well as protecting them . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This enabled it to survive the mass defection of four consultants — equal to almost half their team — led by David Norman in 1982–3 . |
| 27 | Merlyn had shown it once , saying they kept it to protect the valuable things they bought . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They also expected it to show a particular type of magnetic behaviour called paramagnetism because of its isolated electrons — and again , it does . |
| 30 | 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 . |