Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] their [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |
| 2 | CLUE is n't a page makeup system as such but it can be used to create very impressive documents , Blackwells recently used it to publish their book catalogue . |
| 3 | The Romans imported a great quantity of sculpture — figures , groups and relief work — from Greece and Etruria and used it to decorate their buildings and homes . |
| 4 | Even the Beatles used it to symbolize their vision of a more just world when they named their business Apple Corp . |
| 5 | They only found out about the marriage afterwards and used it to strengthen their case , which was , basically that the Archbishop could n't have someone teaching in a school in Clontarf who was the author of a banned book . |
| 6 | The old Chinese army used it to train their generals in strategy . |
| 7 | Ancient Greek women used it to dilate their pupils … hence , ‘ belladonna ’ … |
| 8 | What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent . |
| 9 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 10 | In the present study 60% of incontinent subjects were concerned or worried about their incontinence and 34%-45% felt it affected their lifestyle considerably . |
| 11 | Only in winter did it snap their necks to gorge upon their warm sap . |
| 12 | Did it affect their investment projects ? |
| 13 | How far did it address their grievances ? |
| 14 | Mr Fleming said it moulded their minds : Madness and the Moors . |
| 15 | Legislators in the 1944 Education Act looked upon nursery education in a positive light and indeed laid a duty on local education authorities to provide enough to enable any parent who wanted it to send their child to a nursery school . |