Example sentences of "it [verb] the [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Milosh reversed his lance and flung it so hard that it pinned the Venetian champion to the gate of the city ; he struck off the champion 's head and threw it in Koulash 's nosebag . |
| 2 | The experience of Aden was therefore precious in that it revealed the only alternative to acquiescence or schizophrenia : the political struggle . |
| 3 | It goes the opposite way to this . |
| 4 | It represents the logical conclusion to preceding buildings and is the expression of national culture ; it stands for the essence of Muscovite Christianity in Russia and was the last great church of the movement in this architectural form . |
| 5 | Once she had turned the corner and the house was hidden from view , she jumped off her bike and pushed it through the maze of potholes that pitted the drive as it meandered the half mile to the main gates . |
| 6 | In February 1987 it became the first fluoroquinolone to be marketed in the UK under the tradename Ciproxin . |
| 7 | One of the earliest detailed discussions of how the artefacts of the period might be dated was provided by Åberg ( 1926 , pp. 149–58 ) , although typically there is no consideration of what such chronology could be used for beyond using it to relate the archaeological data to an historical narrative : |
| 8 | It exposes the grim underbelly to the sentimental images captured by the town 's celebrated photographer Frank Sutcliffe . |
| 9 | Protectionist policies , designed to deal with unemployment , temporarily ended the rule of the Conservative Party at the end of 1923 just as surely as it helped the Conservative Party to political dominance in the 1930s . |
| 10 | When ICI Chemical Product and Petrochemicals conducted a survey of its customers in 1986 , it received the proverbial shock to the system . |
| 11 | It recognised the significant contribution to the quality of the environment made by members in the public sector . |
| 12 | It seemed the perfect finish to the best story in modern rock . |
| 13 | However , keep , paint , leave , produce , drink do not support subordinate clauses ; and , while they can be followed by the same sequence of noun phrase + adjective , the adjective is not clausal in their case but a predicate qualifier , and it shows the other characteristics to be expected of a predicate qualifier . |
| 14 | Labov 's interpretation of this irregularity is that it shows the Lower-middle class to be instrumental in diffusing a change throughout the speech community by adopting and emulating what is in fact an innovatory pattern introduced by a higher-status group ( Labov 1972a : 122 ) . |
| 15 | It shows the marginal benefit to the individual . |
| 16 | This makes it very hard for it to pursue the traditional answer to a slump of ‘ pump priming ’ spending more on job creating projects like roads and railways . |
| 17 | It seems the best way to be . |
| 18 | Next turning south , it ascends the wooded approaches to the attractive Hasli valley which becomes barer and wilder in the ascent . |
| 19 | It attributes the speedy exit to having its reorganisation plan in order and the cooperation of its creditors who are apparently agreed on a collections moratorium . |
| 20 | Duregar 's army moved steadily southwards until it reached the eastern entrance to Death Pass . |
| 21 | It is thought that previously matured vitrinite would begin to undergo maturation again once it reached the maximum temperature to which it had been originally exposed . |
| 22 | The Léon type was first formally distinguished from other Breton cattle in 1859 and it resisted the ubiquitous crossing to the Durham Shorthorn . |
| 23 | Communication is not achieved by putting something that means — one thing to us in front of someone else and hoping that it means the same thing to that other person . |
| 24 | Arguably , this public proclamation of secretarian communist beliefs during the election campaign , alerting as it did the bourgeois authorities to the subversive political activities of this " Red Messiah " , and resulting in Nizan 's transfer to Auch , precipitated his decision to become a fully integrated member of the PCF . |
| 25 | Parliament , too , has to keep its working methods under review to make sure it attracts the best people to the service of their country and uses their talents to best effect . |
| 26 | Conservative MP Warren Hawksley says it gives the wrong message to young people . |
| 27 | I do n't think we ought to provide it because that just means it gives the wrong impression to the officers I have to say . |
| 28 | It gives the brief papers to a conference on problem adolescents , held after a five year exchange of child care policy makers , practitioners and researchers from England and the Carolinas . |
| 29 | It said the only solution to endemic condensation was full insulation and constant heat — a " provocatively contentious and quite unacceptable " conclusion , confessed the report . |
| 30 | Well , if a brick layer lays bricks why does n't a plumbers lay plums and it said the little boy to his mother . |