Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I can remember is having a pickled onion and my sister stabbed it with a fork and the middle shot across the room . |
| 2 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 3 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 4 | But that Monday 's Panorama programme revealed it as a piece of lunacy under definite consideration . |
| 5 | Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague . |
| 6 | It was an uncomfortable affair , the Mayor used it as an occasion to condemn what he called the Turkish occupation of the North of the island and Douglas Hurd looked on clearly anxious that the whole thing be wound up as soon as possible . |
| 7 | The President condemned it as a " taxpayer-financed incumbent protection plan " . |
| 8 | One critic likened it to a titanic High Mass on Mars . |
| 9 | The agreement provoked an outcry in Hong Kong where both the Law Society and the local bar association condemned it as a threat to the independence of the judiciary and contrary to the 1984 Joint Declaration . |
| 10 | The opposition ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party said on Jan. 21 that " instead of [ Bulgaria ] being a pillar of peace in the Balkans " the recognition turned it into an " object of suspicions and doubts by its neighbours " . |
| 11 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |
| 12 | And yesterday the story had a happy ending when the man who bought the ring returned it with a mumbled apology . |
| 13 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
| 14 | With bids all over the room , as well as on phones , the Baltimore Museum 's $28,000 ( £20,000 ) bid took it beyond the grasp of New York painting dealer Stuart Feld ( who really did n't need it , having nine others ) . |
| 15 | Although I would have been surprised if London 's Charles Dickens Society required its members to put on a white tie for its annual dinner , the invitation card demanded it for the Scott dinner . |
| 16 | Then , with flint and steel , he struck a spark and at the fifth attempt carried it to a withered leaf , which delicately he breathed into flame . |
| 17 | Cecilia could see that the man with the bear held it by a chain looped round its neck . |
| 18 | My local authority of Calderdale spent responsibly , and a Government Department patted it on the back , saying that it was the second most efficient metropolitan authority in the country . |
| 19 | When the meal was ready Ianthe ate it in the dining room , which opened on to the garden now piled with drifts of sycamore leaves . |
| 20 | This divine artificer was , in effect , the principle of reason , which by imposing order on chaos reduced it to the rule of law . |
| 21 | Until the second world war , the Berlin exchange was the most important on the Continent ; national division reduced it to the status of a small regional market . |
| 22 | Ant : You do n't like school discos " cos your mum turned up at the last one at nine o'clock to take you home , and Fungus announced it over the mike . |
| 23 | The Presidium of the Czech National Council approved the draft on Feb. 12 , describing it as " the basic point of departure for the talks … on the final wording of the agreement " , but the Presidium of the Slovak National Council rejected it on the grounds that the Slovak delegation had made too many concessions . |
| 24 | The specialist ogled it through a tiny lens |
| 25 | Fierce Eyes ' spear took it in the shoulder . |
| 26 | The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels . |
| 27 | Erm , the only time it was really good in my area was when Urban District Council did it with a little chap pushing a barrow and cutting the grass and it all looked absolutely beautiful . |
| 28 | Manners , defending his actions , said that the Select Committee left it to the executive Government to select the style and the architects , and he had only acted accordingly . |
| 29 | So if the council refused it at the meeting it 's their people that 's refused it ! |
| 30 | In the Gulf , France 's lack of modern heavy armour pushed it into a glamorous , but marginal , job on the flank . |