Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 2 | Trent met it with a slight movement of the tiller bar , and the big catamaran lifted smoothly . |
| 3 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 4 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 5 | The radical William Cobbett described it as a ‘ poor man 's robbery bill ’ , designed to reduce the standards of the labouring poor . |
| 6 | Jim described it as a ‘ user friendly ’ locomotive , it is possible to keep on using the machine continuously without having to take it out of service for maintenance . |
| 7 | Postine subdued it with a single blow to its long wrinkled neck . |
| 8 | But that Monday 's Panorama programme revealed it as a piece of lunacy under definite consideration . |
| 9 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
| 10 | Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague . |
| 11 | Israel perceived its military supremacy as essential for its safety , while Syria regarded it as a mortal threat to its own interests . |
| 12 | Condemning the loyalist petrol bombing of homes at Legar Hill Park on the edge of the city , Councillor Pat Brannigan described it as a ‘ despicable act ’ . |
| 13 | In a written statement issued on Oct. 15 after consultation with Hau Pei-Tsun , President Lee Teng-hui described it as a " rash and irresponsible act in total disregard of national security , social stability and the welfare of the people " , and called for penalties in accordance with the law . |
| 14 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 15 | Ellen caught it in a towel and put it out and went back to sleep . |
| 16 | The President condemned it as a " taxpayer-financed incumbent protection plan " . |
| 17 | ‘ David played it at a soundcheck and when I asked him if it was about Shaun he just smiled and then denied it . |
| 18 | Designed to counteract poor visibility on murky winter afternoons , it had been used in Scotland and by the visiting South Africans in 1924 before Arsenal adopted it for a public trial match three years later . |
| 19 | One critic likened it to a titanic High Mass on Mars . |
| 20 | The agreement provoked an outcry in Hong Kong where both the Law Society and the local bar association condemned it as a threat to the independence of the judiciary and contrary to the 1984 Joint Declaration . |
| 21 | Edward rented it from a woman who lived abroad , a woman he had never met , and it suited him perfectly . |
| 22 | And yesterday the story had a happy ending when the man who bought the ring returned it with a mumbled apology . |
| 23 | Holding started it with a blistering over of flat-out speed that accounted for Boycott , after which no one passed 26 and they were all out for 122 , with Croft again the leading wicket-taker . |
| 24 | Silence fell , hanging over them for several minutes before Travis broke it with a casual observation . |
| 25 | The newcomer looked surprised , but Ewen took it without a blink . |
| 26 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 27 | The Durham lads renamed it after a Zimbabwean mountain range ‘ the curse of the Bvumbras . ’ |
| 28 | Then , with flint and steel , he struck a spark and at the fifth attempt carried it to a withered leaf , which delicately he breathed into flame . |
| 29 | Cecilia could see that the man with the bear held it by a chain looped round its neck . |
| 30 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |