Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 2 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 3 | ‘ At first I tried to keep it a secret from my wife and three children , ’ says Chris . |
| 4 | Russia 's anti-reformist central bank , which is Sberbank 's largest shareholder , tried to make it a subsidiary earlier this year — accusing its management , paradoxically , of being too profit-conscious . |
| 5 | I was beginning to think you 'd given it a miss . ’ |
| 6 | She said she 'd given it a lot of thought and decided she 'd just got carried away because it was all such fun . |
| 7 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 8 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 9 | He 'd noticed it the night before . |
| 10 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 11 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 12 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 13 | But he 'd left it a bit late for consideration for her welfare , she thought hazily . |
| 14 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 15 | She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it . |
| 16 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 17 | This was a great pose , she 'd practised it a lot with the mirror . |
| 18 | He had no ticket and she had a Season , and while he stood in line at the window they missed one train and she rolled her head and her eyes and seemed to think it a joke and when the train came there was one thought only in Millet 's mind . |
| 19 | The autumn sunlight seemed to lend it a glow ; her eyes were larger , darker , the half-open lips full and sweet as honey . |
| 20 | Henry and Dolphin agreed to give it a whirl but Ali did n't want to be tied to a permanent set-up , which we understood , so we asked Bruce Foxton to join and he was desperate enough to accept ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You got to give it a name . |
| 22 | However , the way the CAP worked made it the subject of intense criticism . |
| 23 | All those who watched found it an experience which transcended that of an amateur play . |
| 24 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 25 | Phoebe decided to give it a go . |
| 26 | I did n't really fancy it myself but decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 27 | Then I thought about those children and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 28 | But he knew they 're bred for working and when he retired he decided to give it a go . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd thought about it for some time , and decided to give it a go . ’ |
| 30 | So I decided to give it a miss that day . |