Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , the authoritarian nature of the regime has won it many enemies both inside and outside the country , creating an atmosphere of suspicion and intrigue amongst the educated elite . |
| 2 | Yet its conversion to studios , workshops , flats and a drama school has won it several awards . |
| 3 | She had discarded it several years ago , as being much fuller than she really liked , but everything came into its own , she reflected , for every article purchased she took pride in finding an eventual use . |
| 4 | It did n't win it any friends in the Sun Microsystems Inc camp , where they could stand a few friends . |
| 5 | The architect who designed it twenty years before , Blanche reflected , had drawn inspiration from childhood memories of dog-eared graph paper — neatly ruled green squares within a darker grid of ruled squares . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd better buy it some flowers . |
| 7 | The same effect can be obtained by filling the pool with water and emptying it several times over a period of two or three weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ They say it three times ? ’ |
| 9 | " Take a good piece of veal , about three pounds in weight , brown it both sides in butter . |
| 10 | Even the programmer himself has difficulty in driving it two days later ! |
| 11 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |
| 12 | ( It is frequently used : Chirac used it 22 times in 1987 ; it was used 43 times between 1986 and 1988 . ) |
| 13 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 14 | Particular services are examined by two writers closely involved with implementation : Nick Raynsford looks it recent developments in policies on housing , and David Mallen considers how education might effectively be used as a key instrument of social improvement . |
| 15 | Since this shot occurs in two different scenes , maybe he tried it both ways , but it looks the same in each , tough repeated inspection fails to disclose conclusively which of the two possibilities it actually is . |
| 16 | Call up the design and place it two rows up from the bottom of the design area , leaving two empty rows of squares along the bottom of the screen . |
| 17 | they want it both sides of the coin do n't they ? |
| 18 | Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways . |
| 19 | And then later on , oh and then she was going to see room bookings and try to find me another dining hall cos I said it 's pretty late notice , and she said oh no , it 's a week and I thought well I had booked it two months ago . |
| 20 | It 's too highly fragranced — you can smell it 24 hours later — but very effective . |
| 21 | Although he had done it countless times before there was always a risk involved , especially since the introduction of guard dogs trained to sniff out illegal stowaways like himself . |
| 22 | Well I 've done it six days . |
| 23 | last time you 've done it five times in a row . |
| 24 | He had done it many times before . |
| 25 | For swiftly , and with such adroitness that Fabia felt he must have done it many times before , in no time , and before she could blink , Lubor had caught her in his arms . |
| 26 | I 've done it many times , and they 're wondering who they 're speaking to , is it the press , or is it some private number they 've got instead . |
| 27 | done it four years and this year we 're Worcester . |
| 28 | Yeah and we wound , re-wound the tape and er looked for the number and it 's the same number , I 've done it three times and I got this other bloke and I went right through it once and it says |
| 29 | The clock chimed in the hall : it must have done it several times but I had n't heard . |
| 30 | By the time she had done it several times , and copied out the postscript , and redone the drawing , it sounded false to her and she lost her nerve completely . |