Example sentences of "[verb] it [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if racing round the world was n't enough , these half million pound yachts will be tackling it the wrong way — against the winds and currents , to commemorate the first time it was done 21 years ago by British sailor Chay Blyth . |
| 2 | This view , if it could be adequately defended , would successfully stave off individualism by denying it a significant part in social explanation ; but to establish the point is far from easy . |
| 3 | But what , precisely , is the theoretical basis for denying it the honorific title of " democracy " ? |
| 4 | Has it a long publishing history ( many impressions ) ? |
| 5 | THE reader who lives in a council house and believes her rent is subsidising home-buyers has it the wrong way round . |
| 6 | The frequent manifestation of a melancholy figure at Covent Garden Underground Station has earned it the unwanted title of the most haunted station on the London Transport system . |
| 7 | The company collapsed , the ITA had to re-advertise the contract in July 1955 , and the ABPC film company , one-third owned by the American Warner Brothers , was persuaded firmly to accept it the very day before ITV started in London . |
| 8 | The old tiger himself pronounced it a good idea , even if his friends had to listen in a state of uncharacteristic sobriety . |
| 9 | Health physics monitor Steven Crozier , a fitness enthusiast who was one of the group who visited Peel Park to collect the 1993 award , tried out the new multi-gym and pronounced it a real asset ( below ) . |
| 10 | Christina cringed as Susanna pronounced it the American way . |
| 11 | High vaulted ceilings and historic frescoes have inspired the Fine Arts Commission to designate it an historic monument and guests feel they are living with history . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt as though I was announcing it the whole time : by the way I watched you , and talked to you , and could hardly manage not to touch you — stroke your head , brush your arm , hold your hand … . |
| 13 | Grimma took another step forward and caught it a backward thump across the muzzle . |
| 14 | Again she found herself responding to the fever of his passionate desire , and as her own need rose to meet it a small cry of yearning left her — a cry that was accompanied by a totally different cry that echoed from downstairs . |
| 15 | Mainly because erm wires got crossed and er the 's Hall folks want us to go again to do exchange at the end of November , and Well we 'll discuss it a little bit further . |
| 16 | The subtitle is ‘ Making Feminist Sense of International Politics ’ , which itself should be striking enough to secure it a decent sale in alternative bookshops . |
| 17 | In some circumstances , a commercial party may be able to invoke doctrines such as economic duress , that an oppressive term was introduced into a contract without adequate notification , or that another owes it a fiduciary duty . |
| 18 | The final barrier to its operation came after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union , when the North-Rhine Westphalia administration responded to intensified local concern by refusing to grant it the required license to operate . |
| 19 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 20 | ‘ I knew Faye had some complications and needed a nurse — Tom mentioned it the other day — but I had no idea you were a sort of watchdog as well . |
| 21 | Everyone writes it a little bit differently , with a personality all his own . |
| 22 | Researchers in this area are likely to find it a useful entry to the literature , and a source of ideas on research needs . |
| 23 | GLASS giant Pilkington continues to find it a hard grind . |
| 24 | The study of tone languages is less important for native speakers of non-tone languages , but most students seem to find it an interesting subject . |
| 25 | And if I could bring him to reconciliation with the king , without more bloodshed and without revenge , I would count it a good deed both for England and Wales . |
| 26 | Yet despite that authoritative vindication , the moment the PLO makes what might at first sight appear a slight regression to its old-style militancy , the US promptly joins the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ in pronouncing it a serious setback for the peace process . |
| 27 | Even as a wee boy I had considered it an unfair exchange . |
| 28 | To a man , of course , we 'd have considered it an enormous privilege to have met our maker while in the presence of a man who , as the greatest Olympian , is something of a sporting god . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've since had quite a number of first division chairmen clearly indicating they did not consider it a final offer and that they want this thing settled , ’ said Taylor . |
| 30 | Andrew might also consider it a useful opportunity to further his England captaincy claims , for which he has a growing number of supporters — although he expresses no such wish , since his old school-mate , Will Carling , currently holds the job . |