Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 2 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 3 | He prodded it with a toe . |
| 4 | She twisted the comic into a tube on her lap and clenched it like a truncheon . |
| 5 | I never doubted it for a minute , Jane , never . |
| 6 | She ranged it beside a dozen other pots and jars and bottles on her dressing-table and it looked well . |
| 7 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |
| 8 | ‘ He drew it with a piece of charcoal . |
| 9 | Expansion plans and improved profits at textile group Albion helped it to a 24p rise to 75p . |
| 10 | The bottom room , with Its two huge grinding-wheels of burr-granite propped against the wall and its lingering smell of flour , still held an air of mystery , of time held in abeyance , of a place bereft of its purpose and meaning , so that he never entered it without a slight sense of desolation . |
| 11 | On the following day after the Christians had taken possession of the town , the Cid entered it with a great company , and he ascended the highest tower of the wall , and beheld all the city ; and the Moors came unto him , and kissed his hand , saying he was welcome . |
| 12 | I kept the piece of paper and , after I returned home and thought more about the episode , I transformed it into a poem . |
| 13 | The ‘ industrialization ’ of the press ( see also pp. 67 — 78 ) transformed it into a commodity and an industrial product . |
| 14 | That this ‘ fourth channel ’ was the last available national channel transformed it into a very valuable national resource and , consequently , there has always been some concern lest one make a terrible ‘ mistake ’ in allocating it to some unworthy body or organization . |
| 15 | He transformed it into a stately home and filled it with objets d'art from afar . |
| 16 | It was an old town , its wealth based on brewing before the Second World War came along and transformed it into a steel and munitions centre . |
| 17 | The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions . |
| 18 | It was he who curbed my youthful lust and transformed it into a longing for spiritual embrace . |
| 19 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 20 | But chairman Sir Ian Trethowan described it as a ‘ cost effective ’ way into the US market which will add the adolescent delights of sitcoms such as ‘ Gim me a Break ’ to Thames 's programme library . |
| 21 | Dr Samuel Johnson , the most famous son of Lichfield , in the south of the constituency , described it as a city of philosophers . |
| 22 | As is always the case not everyone was pleased : one of Booth 's team described it as a ‘ large and rather ugly building ’ although ‘ its interior looks well enough when crowded with people . ’ |
| 23 | Philip Dodderidge described it as a ‘ most extraordinary book ’ . |
| 24 | The film became the American entry , by invitation , into that year 's Venice film festival and the New York Times ' critic , Bosley Crowther , summed up his nation 's embarrassment when he described it as a ‘ brutal picture which caused diplomats to mop their brows — a vicious account of boozing , fighting , pot-smoking , vandalizing and raping done by a gang of sickle riders who are obviously drawn to represent the swastika-wearing Hell 's Angels , one of several disreputable gangs on the west coast . |
| 25 | Although in 1962 he had appealed to the Government of Ireland Act , in 1963 he described it as a ‘ constitution of bondage ’ . |
| 26 | Jan Morris described it as a combination of Tibetan monastic and English penal , with both Moorish and Romanesque detail . |
| 27 | Homer described it as a monster with the body of a goat , tail of a DRAGON and head of a lion , belching flames . |
| 28 | Others , however , described it as a form of ‘ intellectual carping ’ which failed to say anything of originality or significance . |
| 29 | Also on Beinn Bhan , Der Riesenwand was climbed by Roger Webb by the original line , and Robin Clothier by an accidental direct finish ( sorry , partners unknown ) , and Gully of the Gods by Robin Beadle and Martin Moran , who described it as a superb but straightforward grade V. |
| 30 | Lawrence Durrell described it as a way of becoming more human . |