Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Served chilled it awakens the palate . |
| 2 | But the people had done it to teach the man a lesson . ’ |
| 3 | In ‘ play ’ mode , rotating this control selects effect chains , and when pushed it activates the bypass function . |
| 4 | It 's said it lost the South the American Civil War , because Southern troops did n't have boots . |
| 5 | From the beginning the group had said it wanted the paper to be international , and It was . |
| 6 | BAe has made it clear it did not consider the bid by Mr Hooke as a serious contender and has said it regards the Raytheon offer as best for the company , shareholders and employees . |
| 7 | Now that it had disaffiliated it recognized the necessity of strengthening this co-operation . |
| 8 | ‘ To this day he 's convinced it made the difference between winning and losing . ’ |
| 9 | Defence activities employ a third of France 's 270 000 researchers But the ministry 's bad image among many scientists has persuaded it to woo the science community more explicitly . |
| 10 | When it was sold it became the village hall at Bishop Wilton . |
| 11 | When opened it played the chorus of ‘ Spread a Little Happiness ’ , although the book stipulated it ought to be the ‘ Wedding March ’ . |
| 12 | This has helped it manage the recession more successfully than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 13 | If I get recognised it means the group are doing summat , but you know I can quite happily get through the day without getting recognised … ’ |
| 14 | If I get recognised it means the group are doing summat , but you know I can quite happily get through the day without getting recognised … ’ |
| 15 | I have a strong presentiment that , had the opportunity arisen , Lord Mansfield would have seized it to establish the law in this form . |
| 16 | Fourth and finally , the social composition of the Council — which had a tendency to be more upper class than the Assembly , and to be drawn more from the traditionally , almost professionally political families — must have inclined it to play the master not the servant . |
| 17 | Col Volkov had also found it helped the body to cope with stress in the cramped conditions of a space module . |
| 18 | When executed it lists the LIFESPAN user name and personal name of all the immediate descendants of the LIFESPAN manager . |
| 19 | It 's quite a common event in , and it can be two types , it can be either fixed or flexible , if it 's fixed it means the foot is in a position that you ca n't move out of if it 's flexible it means that the baby has its foot like that but you can actually rotate it |
| 20 | The Nuclear Membrane is perforated and being perforated it allows the passage of messengers from the genes inside the nucleus out into the CYTOPLASM . |
| 21 | Once a rip current pattern has developed it scours the sea bottom to give areas of deeper water which perpetuate the cell circulation pattern : a classical example of positive feedback . |
| 22 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 23 | " Your grandfather might have heard it called the felty , or the pigeon felty or even the blue felty — and I think some call it fell fo ! " |
| 24 | Council leader Michael Carr said government restrictions had forced it to freeze the amount it gives to the bus companies . |
| 25 | Autolatina claimed that a combination of the price freeze and the government decision to reduce tariffs on imported cars ( see below ) had forced it to make the decision . |
| 26 | One of the people with the piano might have had a pencil between their teeth , but would probably have been annoyed if we had taken it to mean the pencil and said : |
| 27 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |
| 28 | The dire state of the property market has prompted it to slash the book value of its bricks and mortar investments by £138m to Pounds 700m . |
| 29 | The fuel tank clips positively into a hinged flap at the front of the case base and when this flap is lowered it pulls the stove assembly forward , positioning the burner unit correctly between the pan supports — a very simple procedure . |