Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] it [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither partner has given it a thought for years , but let some outsider come barging in as though he owned the place and it 's war . |
| 2 | It is a handsome plant , one of the tallest of the umbelliferous herbs , with a strong distinctive , celery-like flavour which has earned it the name of the " Maggi " herb in Italy . |
| 3 | Birmingham 's lively musical scene has won it the title ‘ UK City of Music 1992 ’ in the Arts Council 's Arts 2000 scheme linking a different city or region with a particular art form each year to the year 2000 . |
| 4 | Birmingham 's lively and varied musical scene has won it the title ‘ UK City of Music 1992 . ’ |
| 5 | However plausible this suggestion , empirical investigation has lent it no support . |
| 6 | This was so successful he has done it every year since , but with a different group of children . |
| 7 | Egypt has made it a capital offence to receive military training abroad ; it has arrested dozens of returning veterans and tried 26 of them before a military court . |
| 8 | This warmth , coupled with all the spectacular events , has made it a part of our lives we will never forget . |
| 9 | The sheer scale of the service sector has made it the focus for attack by the proponents of the de-industrialisation thesis . |
| 10 | Hooker David Spiers , who played against Fiji and New Zealand , has called it a day long with lock John Robertsen , who was injured against France after appearing in the opening win over Fiji . |
| 11 | Thousands of travellers are expected at the event , even though a court has refused it a music licence . |
| 12 | I mean I think shrinking the broadsheet width has spoilt it a lot . |
| 13 | In this case , cerebral development has denied it the automatic response while defective social development has denied it the opportunity of learning the skill it lacks . |
| 14 | I was beginning to think you 'd given it a miss . ’ |
| 15 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 16 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 17 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 18 | He 'd noticed it the night before . |
| 19 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 20 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 21 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 22 | But he 'd left it a bit late for consideration for her welfare , she thought hazily . |
| 23 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 24 | She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it . |
| 25 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 26 | This was a great pose , she 'd practised it a lot with the mirror . |
| 27 | I reckon if I had had a flat and everything I could have given it a try . |
| 28 | The town of Knossos had reached a size of not less than 45 hectares by the time its first temple was built in 1930 BC , which would have given it a population of 12,000–18,000 . |
| 29 | ‘ Whatever happens I shall have enjoyed it no end . |
| 30 | Yeah , well I think they could have done it a bit quicker do n't you ? |