Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 2 | The vessel was said to have been intelligence gathering and the damage it sustained caused it to release oil and form another , though smaller , slick to float about the Gulf . |
| 3 | I read Millett 's Sexual Politics by the light of an oil lamp , with mosquitos whining in my ears , and tried to make it make sense in Africa . |
| 4 | As the historical narrative approached the present , political themes were unavoidable : ‘ In 1965 , we , in our wisdom , decided to allow it to get independence . ’ |
| 5 | All Home policies carry a condition requiring the Policyholder to exercise reasonable care of the property insured to prevent it sustaining loss or damage . |
| 6 | The library committee had found other staff very responsive to such ideas and a staff workshop had been planned , although industrial action had prevented it taking place . |
| 7 | Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves . |
| 8 | The accused 's intention had to be considered to determine whether he wished to use it to inflict injury . |
| 9 | The NPFL 's advance had enabled it to secure control of the port of Buchanan , 100 km south-east of Monrovia , after fierce fighting on May 23 . |
| 10 | The intimate relationship of Blackpool with the Wakes Weeks towns had enabled it to raise capital for its piers , Winter Gardens and other improvements . |
| 11 | The in-house survey referred to above found that 78 per cent of the weekend guests had gone to the hotel because they had read it offered leisure facilities . |
| 12 | Manufacturing workers were aware of this situation , and at times of dispute with their employers sometimes attempted to use it to gain support from the landed rate-payers who , correctly , believed that , compared with land , the assets of manufacturers were significantly under-assessed . |
| 13 | The main Hoechst plant in Frankfurt was blockaded by Greenpeace after the company refused to allow it take water and earth samples . |