Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he let it go the ram trotted off , barging through the other sheep with the lukal bulging out on either side across its ribcage . |
| 2 | The move cut across the efforts of SEMS , and stopped it achieving the sales it had hoped for . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , the game was very close and as half time approached it took a piece of individual brilliance to put St Albans ahead . |
| 4 | Believing this to be the case , Roshanara stole the Imperial seal and used it to forge an order that proclaimed Aurangzeb 's nine-year-old youngest son to be the next Emperor in preference to the rightful heir . |
| 5 | The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church . |
| 6 | To achieve this Lazarsfeld borrowed a notion from mathematics and logic , that of the variable , and used it to create a way of thinking about social science in both its theoretical and empirical aspects . |
| 7 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 8 | She collected some of his saliva from the ground and used it make a serpent . |
| 9 | The older woman pulled out a tray of handguns , and used it to push the glasses and drinks off the bar . |
| 10 | She also used it to put the fires out . |
| 11 | More likely used it to saw a hole through a pound coin . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the church was despoiled of its marble wall covering in the fifteenth century when Alberti used it to enrich the Cathedral of Rimini . |
| 13 | But he said Cardow ‘ had come armed with a lethal weapon and used it to penetrate the deceased 's body nine times . ’ |
| 14 | The American biologist Garrett Hardin used it to summarize the message of what may be called ‘ sociobiology ’ or ‘ selfish genery ’ . |
| 15 | It illustrates the pyramiding effect of interbank lending which means that no single customer or bank can be sure of where credit , i.e. deposits loaned , it extends will end up ( Shell 's deposit was loaned by Barclays to Lloyds and the latter used it to grant a loan to BP ) . |
| 16 | The aircraft was sold then to Francisco Sarabia , who used it to break the Mexico City to New York record in 1938 . |
| 17 | We produced an attractive new leaflet and used it to launch a recruitment campaign . |
| 18 | They used it to buy a truck , which earned more money , which they used in turn to create a new farm , with further grants from the government . |
| 19 | Brenner used it to identify the relations between macroeconomic variables and the measures of national health during the economic cycles that took place in the course of several decades . |
| 20 | Through all the beliefs and countries which used it runs the thread of its curative effect on the eyes , and ability to strengthen the sight . |
| 21 | Perhaps only William Joyce could have taken for his text , as he once did , Edmund Burke 's axiom , ‘ In politics magnanimity is often the truest wisdom ’ — and promptly used it to show the necessity for the extinction of Jewry . |
| 22 | The Christian Democrats used it to win the votes of farmers . |
| 23 | The electorate took a dim view of this practice when the government used it to get the consumption tax through in December . |
| 24 | tried it to remember the script but then I |
| 25 | When David overcame the Ammonites , we are told ‘ he took the crown of the king off his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold and there were priceless stones in it ; and it was set on David 's head ’ . |
| 26 | ( The precise scope of executive privilege was unclear : the only Supreme Court ruling on the doctrine — the 1974 decision against Nixon — found it to have a basis in the Constitution but adjudicated that it should not provide an impediment to criminal prosecution . ) |
| 27 | So late in the second set , she walked across the scoreboard and changed it to show the match going in her favour . |
| 28 | But where this occurred it took the form of state control and the resulting technologies and forms of industrialisation differed little from their capitalist counterparts . |
| 29 | If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure . |
| 30 | Thurso my readers will have heard much about , at the time when his Royal Highness visited it to open the Exhibition there in the autumn of 1876 . |