Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAPENHURST 'S safety record which last year won it a certificate of merit from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has earned it a second award this year . |
| 2 | The frequent manifestation of a melancholy figure at Covent Garden Underground Station has earned it the unwanted title of the most haunted station on the London Transport system . |
| 3 | I remembered Sopworth saying how the cat had no sense of territory , how he 'd only just caught it the first time it escaped , racing north along the A2 . |
| 4 | Even as a wee boy I had considered it an unfair exchange . |
| 5 | To a man , of course , we 'd have considered it an enormous privilege to have met our maker while in the presence of a man who , as the greatest Olympian , is something of a sporting god . |
| 6 | It 's turned it the other way round . |
| 7 | That 's why the Campaign for Real Ale has named it a regional Pub of the year , an honour the 86 year old landlady is delighted to accept . |
| 8 | You 've done it a hundred times before . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
| 10 | You 've done it a thousand times already , but you do it again , just for something to do . |
| 11 | Listening , as you become more comfortable and you become , you 've done it a few times you know what you 're gon na have to say and then you , you er , you listen more carefully to the answers . |
| 12 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 13 | The Hungarians have put privatisation and foreign-trade liberalisation before currency convertibility ; the Poles have done it the other way round . |
| 14 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 15 | Please note that you do not have to open the rings to put these markers over , though you should after you 've done it the first time , erm , it should become easier with practice , let me put it that way , okay . |
| 16 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
| 17 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 18 | that 's the wrong way , you 've done it the wrong way have n't you ? |
| 19 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 20 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 21 | Except to myself , I 've said it a hundred times to myself . " |
| 22 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 23 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 24 | Yeah I know I fou seen it the other day Mary . |
| 25 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 26 | Some boards have made it a procedural requirement in their regulations that evidence of title to a property be produced in support of the application for permanent transfer , where the existing licence holder 's consent is not forthcoming , or where there are conflicting applications by prospective transferees . |
| 27 | It remains to decide whether the Unionists would have accepted fusion if Lloyd George could have made it a real option in 1920 . |
| 28 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
| 29 | The world shortage and price rises had made it a rare delicacy for ordinary citizens , but David Laing liked to sip and swig constantly . |
| 30 | Mr Browne said : ‘ The challenger being put up has made it a tighter fight and is endangering the seat . ’ |