Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've not heard of it getting a summer ascent since . |
| 2 | As well using the message on literature sent to people outside the region , it will also be used within it to spearhead a drive for increased quality of service . |
| 3 | The corollary of the possession of power by companies is that the individuals , interest groups , and communities affected by it suffer a lack of control over the conditions which determine how they live their lives . |
| 4 | The piece of equipment is hydraulic , er once the equipment is placed on it takes a total of between twelve and fifteen seconds for it to operate totally . |
| 5 | The promotions business is going through a rocky time , and the Hoover jinx has now hit the Coca Cola Co in the UK , the Guardian reports : customer services at the company 's British headquarters are besieged with callers believing they have won Sega Enterprises Ltd games machines because one batch of bottles appears to make every purchaser a winner ; any bottle cap with the letter M , G or B printed on it wins a Sega prize , but the problem batch have all three letters inside the cap as part of a code to identify consignments , and the company is having to spend thousands of pounds on advertising to make it quite clear that its only caps with only one of the letters that win , and that all three are no good . |
| 6 | Its 180° ( or 60° ) image superimposed upon it forms a star hexagon . |
| 7 | ‘ For the first half-dozen years of Scrutiny I had no post and no salary , and was hard put to it to make a living , ’ he once wrote in characteristic vein . |
| 8 | And this issue he had been hard put to it to find a couple of intelligent letters for the correspondence page ; sometimes it seemed that every crackbrain in north-east Norfolk read the PANUP newsletter but that no one else did . |