Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the electron carries a high energy transverse to the direction of the collision , and thus bears the signature of the W particle that gave it birth . |
| 2 | Still lacking is the 625 MMU/cache , a redesign of an older model that gave it trouble and caused delays in the past . |
| 3 | Many contemporary and subsequent critics have emphasized the extent to which The Big Parade ( 1925 ) is essentially a piece of romantic escapism but it was the film 's thoroughly sensible and balanced attitude towards war that earned it respect from discriminating critics in the 1920s . |
| 4 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 5 | It compelled him to look closer ; to feel the smooth , damp surface ; to grasp the ring of iron that held it prisoner ; to look into the black space behind it . |
| 6 | Because this policy existed , and the government was democratic , both the United States and the International Monetary Fund have given Argentina the benefit of the doubt and lent it money to tide it over . |
| 7 | Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package . |
| 8 | And , as time melted the sunbeam and dripped it moment by moment from the desk to the floor , Chesarynth had only her dubious belief in Friend to sustain her . |
| 9 | Seve hit a 3-wood and hooked it miles , nearly on to the first green . |
| 10 | On 22 June , a Saturday , about ten of us manhandled the Wilsons ' caravan on to the Lecky Road , the main artery through the Bogside , and parked it broadside in the middle of the road , stopping all the traffic . |
| 11 | The High Court action reached its climax on 11 January when BA issued a public apology to Virgin and paid it £610,000 for damage caused by libel . |
| 12 | The day after , Jamie came in with the wooden dish of porridge , held it out to Cameron , then twitched it away when he reached for it and turned it upside down . |
| 13 | Not so long ago ( Issue 81 , to be exact ) Corky reviewed NES II , concluding it was ‘ a hotch-potch of crudely implemented game styles ’ and awarded it 48% . |
| 14 | Hector called to all the people , " Come and share my treasure trunk , " And all the silly sightless people Came and looked … and called it junk . |
| 15 | It is the vision of people looking up from the depths , de profundis , from the ‘ dark shadow of death ’ and of despair , and seeing a new light : ‘ unlooked for , glittering and bright ; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered , and they took it for a sign , and called it Gil-Estel , the Star of High Hope ’ . |
| 16 | In the fourth century the Romans enclosed seven acres of land and called it Banovallum — walled place on the Bain . |
| 17 | He established a township around the mills for his workers and called it Mossgiel , after the farm at Mauchline . |
| 18 | ‘ He had made a deadlock and called it peace ’ . |
| 19 | Paraphrasing Tacitus and Byron , the Visitors ' Centre has the last word on Bloody Cumberland : ‘ he created a desert and called it peace . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ All ‘ Progressives ’ … believed in them , and called it Euthanasia ’ , characteristically exaggerating a sensible point with ‘ all ’ . |
| 21 | In 15BC the Romans established a settlement on this very spot , no doubt with its commanding strategic position in mind , and called it Turicum . |
| 22 | She trickled out a spiral of smoke and watched it rise . |
| 23 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 24 | He set up a settlement there and named it Isabella . |
| 25 | We wrote it down and repeated it time and time again to Sergeant Moustaine , until he was satisfied that even the most stupid of us had understood it . |
| 26 | The Poles filled every available truck and train with Silesian coal and sent it north ; for weeks a fine drifting cloud of coal-dust hung over Danzig and it seemed the port was to become a coal-opolis fit to rival Cardiff , the coal capital of the world . |
| 27 | ‘ The English generals , ’ he replied , ‘ had the body dressed and embalmed after Flodden and sent it south for our King to view . ’ |
| 28 | He had tried to keep it as a pet , and had made a cage for it and brought it dandelion leaves to eat ; but it never thrived , and had lived only a few days more . |
| 29 | He pushed it through the letter box and saw it flame up as it went through . |
| 30 | He had paid it no attention , for the light still reached it only by reflected glimpses ; but Isambard had lived with it on close terms for fifteen years , and knew it line for line and feature for feature . |