Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it the [noun] " 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 | For himself he built a hotel on the corner of the ancient Coal Road West Auckland Road and called it the Alma . |
8 | The team developed a system to amplify and record to monitor these electric pulses , and gave it the name ‘ VAN box ’ , from their initials . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I prised off a scab and gave it the tongue test . |
11 | Thus the Immigration Acts , beginning with the 1962 Act ‘ took discrimination out of the market place and gave it the sanction of the state . |
12 | But the crisis nature of so many decisions to admit , and the compulsion involved in the route into care reinforced this negative view , and gave it the features of a self-fulfilling prophecy . |
13 | 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 . |