Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fuqua Industries first estimated the cost of capital for the corporate group using CAPM principles and then modified it for a division by reference to fourteen key risk elements . |
| 2 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 3 | He prodded it with a toe . |
| 4 | She twisted the comic into a tube on her lap and clenched it like a truncheon . |
| 5 | I never doubted it for a minute , Jane , never . |
| 6 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |
| 7 | ‘ He drew it with a piece of charcoal . |
| 8 | It was he who curbed my youthful lust and transformed it into a longing for spiritual embrace . |
| 9 | I kept the piece of paper and , after I returned home and thought more about the episode , I transformed it into a poem . |
| 10 | It was an old town , its wealth based on brewing before the Second World War came along and transformed it into a steel and munitions centre . |
| 11 | The ‘ industrialization ’ of the press ( see also pp. 67 — 78 ) transformed it into a commodity and an industrial product . |
| 12 | A sky-blue bus lumbered past , then they shot out on to the curving mountain road behind it , and a second later overtook it with a roar that must have terrified the already nervous passengers , as the buses always drove maniacally around these bends , desperate to stick to their schedule right down to the last fraction of a second . |
| 13 | Police described it as a gangland style execution . |
| 14 | Lawrence Durrell described it as a way of becoming more human . |
| 15 | Lord Williams described it as a system the old Soviet Union would have been proud of . |
| 16 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , whose Rome Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith co-ordinated the drafting of the documents , described it as a response to the ‘ thirst for truth and certainty ’ , but admitted that the death penalty references were ‘ discussed at length , and not without difficulty ’ . |
| 17 | She described it as a nightmare . |
| 18 | Dr Samuel Johnson , the most famous son of Lichfield , in the south of the constituency , described it as a city of philosophers . |
| 19 | Jan Morris described it as a combination of Tibetan monastic and English penal , with both Moorish and Romanesque detail . |
| 20 | Others , however , described it as a form of ‘ intellectual carping ’ which failed to say anything of originality or significance . |
| 21 | I described it as a recipe for throwing Northern Ireland into convulsion . |
| 22 | Homer described it as a monster with the body of a goat , tail of a DRAGON and head of a lion , belching flames . |
| 23 | Green Party activist Sara Parkin described it as a step towards " turning the green vision of an ecologically sustainable society into a practical reality " . |
| 24 | Now , for the first time , my father saw the barbaric splendour of the Abyssinian Empire He described it in a letter to his mother : |
| 25 | I caught it on a door handle |
| 26 | I caught it on a rack in the |
| 27 | The driver of the police car purchased two packets of Kent and threw one pack to his friend who caught it without a pause in his speech to Signe , then saluted , and both policemen got into the Porsche . |
| 28 | Ellen caught it in a towel and put it out and went back to sleep . |
| 29 | The cyke came up over a dune , and Mostyn and Cheadle caught it in a crossfire . |
| 30 | She allowed the idea of falling in love with him dance across her mind but soon dismissed it with a smile . |