Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for the sea to be judged to be the same colour the painter has to paint it different colours . |
| 2 | The combined effect of the FSA and the delegation by the Secretary of State of regulatory power to the SIB has given it extensive executive , enforcement and rulemaking powers . |
| 3 | Cuba 's proximity to the United States has given it great value for Soviet intelligence , surveillance and communications operations . |
| 4 | And just to put the icing on the cake he has named it Black Forest Chateau . |
| 5 | The University has many staff whose work of outstanding international merit in many diverse fields has brought it great acclaim . |
| 6 | And as a result has awarded it top marks and a prestigious regional Quality Brickwork Award . |
| 7 | A distinctive prominence was given to mathematics — not least because its value in astronomy , navigation , architecture , and surveying gave it particular relevance to those training for missionary work overseas , or to those preparing for high military or government service . |
| 8 | If you are a professional grower , this bud is merely one among thousands , and you will not have the time to fuss and mollycoddle it — the head comes off in one go , and the bud has to take it full blast . |
| 9 | He 'd made it clear right form the start just how he regarded her — as a brash and brassy nightclub singer , nothing else . |
| 10 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 11 | Consequently in an SEC Commissioners document published in February 1986 the scheme was viewed positively , but owing to competing priorities , legislation was never framed to give it Congressional backing . |
| 12 | Intercourse , like most activities between lovers , tends to find it sown level , largely driven by the unconscious . |
| 13 | You would n't have got want it honest thing . |
| 14 | No one had yet bothered to feed it standard crisis input notice . |
| 15 | Others have had to do it other people in other countries . |
| 16 | There 's never any time , Lucy , you 've got to give it real time . |
| 17 | ‘ If your form is n't so clear , you 're not going to get it right sitting on the bench . ’ |
| 18 | His cockney friends would have called it honest endeavour in a dishonest world . |
| 19 | I 'll have to pay it back Friday . ’ |
| 20 | We try to keep it low temperature . |
| 21 | Why not jot your suggestion on a post-card and send it to the Sports Desk , The People , 33 , Holborn Circus , London EC1P 1DQ.There 'll be a special gift for the best suggested dialogue — try to keep it clean folks ! |
| 22 | The type of guest for which a hotel caters gives it special characteristics and atmosphere : for example , some hotels are family-type hotels with a fair proportion of residential guests , while others are commercial hotels usually catering for commercial travellers continually in transit . |
| 23 | If we humanize the cat to the extent where we start to give it human medication , we may be hurting it when we are trying to be kind . |
| 24 | I 've tried to do it endless times since but the drink just goes everywhere . |
| 25 | Death rates increased all the time , as hormonally charged adolescents flocked to give it heavy Brando on Honda C50s . |
| 26 | - While the government broke the strike , they were unable to destroy the union and were forced to concede it legal recognition . |
| 27 | Campaigners fighting to keep it open fear children will die if the ward — one of the world 's leading child cancer centres — is moved to another hospital without Bart 's expertise . |
| 28 | The war , far from finishing off the machine of modernity , had given it new life . |
| 29 | Pugin 's advocacy of the Gothic as a Christian , not pagan , architecture , had given it moral overtones . |
| 30 | One obvious problem about the regent 's earlier policy of marrying her daughter to the dauphin is why leading Scottish Protestants like lord James Stewart and John Erskine of Dun had not only accepted this symbolic and political consolidation of the alliance with Catholic France , but had given it positive support , being among those who negotiated it . |