Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The older woman pulled out a tray of handguns , and used it to push the glasses and drinks off the bar . |
| 6 | She also used it to put the fires out . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the church was despoiled of its marble wall covering in the fifteenth century when Alberti used it to enrich the Cathedral of Rimini . |
| 8 | But he said Cardow ‘ had come armed with a lethal weapon and used it to penetrate the deceased 's body nine times . ’ |
| 9 | The American biologist Garrett Hardin used it to summarize the message of what may be called ‘ sociobiology ’ or ‘ selfish genery ’ . |
| 10 | The aircraft was sold then to Francisco Sarabia , who used it to break the Mexico City to New York record in 1938 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Christian Democrats used it to win the votes of farmers . |
| 15 | The electorate took a dim view of this practice when the government used it to get the consumption tax through in December . |
| 16 | tried it to remember the script but then I |
| 17 | So late in the second set , she walked across the scoreboard and changed it to show the match going in her favour . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The DoE believed it had the decision to join the 30 per cent Club ‘ in the bag ’ and briefed journalists to that effect . |
| 21 | As we come to discover and worry about our own lack of autonomy , we discover in the past a similar lack of autonomy but , importantly in the Renaissance , a body of writing which never believed it possessed the power of independent expression in the first place . |
| 22 | I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone . |
| 23 | The writer has collected three instances of this practice : two in the Stowmarket district and one near Mendlesham where the farmer who recalled it made the comment after the cold and wet spring of 1963 : ‘ I do n't know how those owd bors who used to set on the seed-bed would get on today : I reckon they 'd get themselves right chilled . ’ |
| 24 | He slid his hands into the sleeves , and lifted it to turn the back to the light , and for a few minutes stood studying it closely . |
| 25 | He refused to say what that procedure might be , but confirmed it required the permission of Lothian Regional Council . |
| 26 | Reaching across the table , Michele took her hand , and , holding it in both of his , turned it to examine the palm . |
| 27 | Immediately a hand was placed firmly over her head and turned it to face the front again . |
| 28 | George fumbled out the little pinhole torch and watched as Maxim delicately smeared a film of shoe polish on the end of his key then probed ag in and immediately withdrew it to study the marks on the polish . |
| 29 | The millionaire boss of The Hanson Trust , who lives downstream from the lake , claimed it ruined the flow of the river through his land . |
| 30 | The Minister will know of one trainer , Astra Training Services , because he paid it to take the skill centres away . |