Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horizon was still invisible , but above the line of mist that hid it the sky was clear , with the promise of a lovely evening . |
| 2 | The working class was hardly more impressed by the Manifesto and in the weeks that followed it the government faced an unprecedented challenge to its authority , centred on St Petersburg and Moscow . |
| 3 | It was being in a position to suggest those things that gave it the edge . ’ |
| 4 | He claimed that there had been a bona-fide revival of Gothic architecture during the reign of Queen Victoria , that there was with those who loved architecture and made it the subject of special study , |
| 5 | Behaviouralists drew a sharp distinction between normative and scientific statements , and made it the hallmark of science to avoid the normative . |
| 6 | A brief encounter with the new range last week convinced me the changes have rejuvenated the car and made it the equal of anything from Munich or Stuttgart . |
| 7 | The team developed a system to amplify and record to monitor these electric pulses , and gave it the name ‘ VAN box ’ , from their initials . |
| 8 | Realizing the kicks that many men get out of listening to women mouthing obscenities , he set up a unique telephone service to cater for the need and gave it the name Just Filmz Inc . |
| 9 | I prised off a scab and gave it the tongue test . |
| 10 | Thus the Immigration Acts , beginning with the 1962 Act ‘ took discrimination out of the market place and gave it the sanction of the state . |
| 11 | The Sunday Life , barely four years old , has had its own share of successes , with a sales rise which outstripped every other national daily and weekly paper in the British Isles in 1992 and won it the Newspaper Society Sunday Award . |