Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , the game was very close and as half time approached it took a piece of individual brilliance to put St Albans ahead . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She collected some of his saliva from the ground and used it make a serpent . |
| 5 | More likely used it to saw a hole through a pound coin . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | We produced an attractive new leaflet and used it to launch a recruitment campaign . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | ( 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 . ) |
| 11 | There followed an unseemly dispute between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners , who owned the freehold , and the City , which believed it had a lease in perpetuity . |
| 12 | She passed the streamer to another woman who did the same and each woman who received it made a statement of her sorrow , culminating with a young woman who spoke , with tears running down her face , of her fears for her children . |
| 13 | An extract from his booklet , printed in The Observer on 2 June 1991 , caused it to receive a record mailing from readers , many of whom supported his " boo-ing " of all religious leaders as so many cackling geese . |
| 14 | As we have seen , horses can learn some things very quickly , and once learnt it becomes a habit so they do n't have to reconsider the matter each time it arises . |
| 15 | Parked it to buy a pack of cigarettes — the car was stolen by a couple of kids going joy-riding . |
| 16 | He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me . |
| 17 | I went to the shed , got the kite , walked a way along the dunes and assembled it battered a tent-peg into the ground , tied the nylon tcJ it , then flew the kite on a short string for a while . |
| 18 | A recent survey of the 443-kilometre Khutzeymateen valley showed it contained a population of 50 grizzlies , the largest known on Canada 's west coast , but that logging of the valley 's temperate rainforest-although it could be economic-- " would pose a substantial threat to the bears and the habitat " . |
| 19 | When he opened it split a bit down there . |
| 20 | The testator had made a will , but then opened it to have a look at it . |
| 21 | Alvarez was fully aware of the ‘ bad news ’ part of the equation-the muon 's brief life which only allowed it to catalyse a handful of fusions before it perished . |
| 22 | When the NI first began it had a series called Myth Exploders which challenged the popular misconceptions about the Third World and our relationship with it . |
| 23 | For the first time since the process of unification began it placed a question mark over the future of Kohl , who had made 14 campaign appearances and admitted that the result represented a " bitter defeat " . |
| 24 | As she moved , the fabric clung to her hips , and the skirt was slashed at the front from knee-level down , so that as she walked it gave a glimpse of her dark-stockinged legs . |
| 25 | The marriage which followed it took a fraction of the time — about three minutes . |
| 26 | A BOMB disposal squad was called to blow up a suspect suitcase at Whitby railway station at the weekend — and discovered it contained a cornet and sheet music . |
| 27 | Bull evaluated translation tools from UK firms Sterling Business Systems , High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire , and from Liverpool-based Fraser Williams , but decided it needed an emulator to enable GCOS applications to fully function . |
| 28 | The Corporation was required by the law which established it to operate a broadcasting station as ‘ a means of education , information and entertainment for the public and to develop the service to the best advantage of the territory ’ . |
| 29 | Although fully furnished it had an air of emptiness and desolation . |
| 30 | Last year , Trade Indemnity announced substantial losses which required it to have a rights issue which all bar the Prudential took up . |