Example sentences of "[vb past] it [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A brief greatness was now conferred on the place , when the Popes found it an island refuge in their struggle against the Empire : Count Pierre of Melgueil bestowed the county and bishopric on SS Peter and Paul and Pop Gregory VII in 1085 , Pope Urban II graciously granted it back as a fief for a mere annual ounce of gold , and in 1096 , on a visit , astonishingly declared the church ‘ second after that of Rome ’ , with arms of the two |
| 2 | In 1910 , the Hon Charles Rothschild purchased 138 hectares of this fenland fragment and declared it a nature reserve . |
| 3 | At least 50,000 islanders , and 2,000 tourists , were without electricity last night as President Bush declared it a disaster area . |
| 4 | When chemists vapourised potassium nitrate and trapped it an argon matrix , however , they were surprised to discover that it contained molecules with the chemical formula KNO 3 . |
| 5 | That was the reason they named it the Deathbed Room . |
| 6 | Nonetheless , prices are unlikely to drop further : TransTools made the mistake of launching its first database at too low a price , which lost it the prestige Ollero feels it deserves . |
| 7 | " He called it a mud wagon . " |
| 8 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 9 | Well lost property , I already touched on , that was one of my jobs and then erm , we called it the ticket book , that was for want of some other name I suppose . |
| 10 | Ryan called it the Iron Maiden . |
| 11 | They called it the drill hall then it 's now the community centre but it 's the drill hall . |
| 12 | Oh yes , it was at the Strathmore Arms at Hury , and we called it the Show Room , and sometimes the Hut . |
| 13 | Every time we had to travel in from our suburb to the city for clinic visits , we made it a treat day . |
| 14 | It was a sharp strike which made it a dream return to his native North East following his £175,000 move to Merseyside in November 1991 . |
| 15 | I actually made it a union firm . |
| 16 | It made it a weekend marriage , but it seemed to work . |
| 17 | Ms Jeffreys said : ‘ Deaths have all occurred since the rave scene began and people made it a dance drug . |
| 18 | They forfeited only one game in their rousing win while sisters Jane Thomas and Gail Richards of Rhyl made it a family affair , beating Joanne Attwood and Lara Hill of Mold in three tough sets . |
| 19 | Actor Lloyd Bridges and wife Dot made it a family day out with his son Beau , wife Juli and children . |
| 20 | Inspector Morse star John Thaw made it a family double , receiving his CBE 15 years after actress wife Sheila Hancock got hers . |
| 21 | Grayshott Youth made it a club double when they won the junior inter-club cricket quiz on Tuesday night . |
| 22 | I 've I 've got a , a piece of this , this stuff I I bought it a piece sort of square they were selling it off cheap |
| 23 | The first night audience was so impressed with Moby Dick , it gave it a standing ovation . |
| 24 | So for its first half-century , after Weisthenes , the Athenian Council was an unpaid elected body , something which gave it an elite character which it may never wholly have lost . |
| 25 | I prised off a scab and gave it the tongue test . |
| 26 | When Europeans saw the animal alive for the first time , they christened it the mountain goat because of its unusual agility on narrow , icy ledges . |
| 27 | The Sunday Life , barely four years old , has had its own share of successes , with a sales rise which outstripped every other national daily and weekly paper in the British Isles in 1992 and won it the Newspaper Society Sunday Award . |
| 28 | He considered it a capital notion and just what was wanted . |