Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 2 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 3 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |
| 4 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 5 | But we have n't done it for the past eighteen months . |
| 6 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 7 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 8 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 9 | Some have attributed it to the old French torques in reference to Turkey by way of which the stone reached Europe , and others to the Persian word piruzeh . |
| 10 | Some weeks after Brezhnev 's initiative a Soviet statement quite explicitly linked it with the new American ’ arc of crisis ‘ strategy . ’ |
| 11 | Causes of change are many — the government , the unions , OPEC , the Argentines , company mergers , new brooms , technological change , recession , unemployment , legislation , EEC — you name it , you 've experienced it in the last few years . |
| 12 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 13 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 14 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 15 | Tavett grew annoyed when he realized she had already discussed it with the other two the previous evening as soon as she had been allowed to leave the police station . |
| 16 | Third , Raven has signed it in a position that suggests ownership ( i.e ; on the back ) ; if he were claiming authorship he would surely have signed it in the bottom right-hand corner in the normal way . |
| 17 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 18 | I 've managed it for the last four years , have n't I ? ’ |