Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] it a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , as with heroes such as Arthur , Charlemagne and Macbeth , an original core of genuine history gathered about it a coating of myth and legend which distorted the truth and added extensively to the apocryphal side of Rodrigo 's life . |
| 2 | English Language , Literature , and History in the colleges was both similar to and different from these other modern disciplines ; similar in that , like them , it sought to create for itself a solid and autonomous identity ; different ( especially from the early decades of this century ) in that its predominantly classically-trained and often clerical academic proponents increasingly claimed for it a status well beyond that of any mere " discipline " or " knowledge subject " . |
| 3 | The operation carried with it a 1% risk of damage to the spinal cord and a 1-2% risk of damage to the nerve roots . |
| 4 | In all the other occupational categories , however , identification with one class or other carried with it a tendency to identify with the ‘ corresponding ’ party . |
| 5 | The very optimism of the possibility that the miners might be on the move against the government carried with it a premonition of pessimism , that the miners would save the working class when it could not save itself . |
| 6 | Betrothal appears to have carried with it a presumption of consent . |
| 7 | As with other contributors , exaggerated claims are made for détournement ( the communication which contains its own critique ) , firstly because it was an inheritance from Cubism and Dada , and secondly , because , as the exhibition shows , its deployment by ‘ pro-situs ’ has made of it a commonplace , popularised in punk fanzines , and ‘ Biff ’ postcards etc . |
| 8 | The first contends that the word ‘ appropriate ’ has built into it a connotation that it is some action inconsistent with the owner 's rights , something hostile to the interests of the owner or contrary to his wishes and intention or without his authority . |
| 9 | Rindi , whose crew possessed only pressurized paraffin-lamps , asked to borrow our torch , and revealed with it a patch of silt floor a good thirty feet further down , as untrammelled as the bottom of the deep ocean trenches — except for the unmistakable tyre-tracks of several large pythons . |
| 10 | The tiara was in essence a white cap , having two bands at the back like a mitre , but it had incorporated in it a coronet round the lower rim to which was added a second coronet under Pope Boniface VIII at the end of the thirteenth century , symbolizing sacerdotal and regal powers . |
| 11 | They then draw lots in the form of a scorecard , unseen , which has written on it a target number and position . |
| 12 | I adjusted the position of my skis , laid out the chute lines , hauled in the centre cord a little , clipped the controller into my climbing harness , thought about it a bit , hauled the lines up to give the nylon a bit of air , closed my eyes and gritted my teeth . |
| 13 | I am so excited , I have n't slept since I was told about it a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 14 | We 've talked about it a bit , did n't we , where is it ? connection , how to check whether you 've got the right diversion . |
| 15 | The Colonel was used to acting in loco parentis and would certainly not have responded as warmly as he had done to Miss Danziger 's maturity had he not discerned in it a vulnerability : something he could defend . |
| 16 | For both occasions she had worn the same hat — an uncompromising chenille turban ; Helen had disposed of it a month ago with the rest of her things and , as she looked at the photographs , felt again the curious dry but slimy touch of it . |
| 17 | This image of an undamaged whole brought with it a doubt which Franca found piquant rather than disturbing . |
| 18 | The move upmarket has brought with it a character change . |
| 19 | The file brought with it a twinge of now familiar guilt ant a covering note from Army Intelligence : Will you please try and persuade the creepy-crawlies that we have neither the facilities nor any reason to investigate this lady 's apparent disappearance . |
| 20 | When the government went back again in 1976 , the second loan brought with it a Fund investigation into Britain 's economic policy and the requirement of more cuts in public expenditure as a condition of the loan . |
| 21 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 22 | The reorganisation brought with it a number of management changes . |
| 23 | And this spirit brought with it a suggestion rather than the clear outline and colour of the mayblossom dress . |
| 24 | The sudden stilling of the wind brought with it a silence so total when compared to the continual cacophony of the past hours that the shock of it , for a moment , held Mariana and Trent immobile . |
| 25 | Each episode brought with it a succession of new sets and new working constraints . |
| 26 | Some of them brought to it a breadth of experience of teaching to which we could not lay claim . |
| 27 | cos the eldest daughter had gone off it a bit |
| 28 | You 've got ta look at it as an ongoing er on an ongoing problem but erm you , you could 've perhaps have gone into it a little bit more then just to find out erm there was also a mention of , of an income rise in the spring |
| 29 | At the far end of the chamber is a coffin on a heavy table , and seated beside it a woman in a low-cut black dress with red silk edging . |
| 30 | His procession left behind it a trail of communal violence and death . |