Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Hungarians have put privatisation and foreign-trade liberalisation before currency convertibility ; the Poles have done it the other way round . |
| 11 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
| 14 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 15 | that 's the wrong way , you 've done it the wrong way have n't you ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 18 | Yeah I know I fou seen it the other day Mary . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It remains to decide whether the Unionists would have accepted fusion if Lloyd George could have made it a real option in 1920 . |
| 21 | The world shortage and price rises had made it a rare delicacy for ordinary citizens , but David Laing liked to sip and swig constantly . |
| 22 | Mr Browne said : ‘ The challenger being put up has made it a tighter fight and is endangering the seat . ’ |
| 23 | The since Terry took over the ground everything 's been refurbished and new crush rails put up you know , and he seems to have made it a good ground . |
| 24 | Ever since the aborted rebel Wallaby tour to South Africa in 1987 , French had made it a personal goal to see the Springboks return to the international stage . |
| 25 | It is largely self-sufficient in coal , chemicals , and fish , and the recent discovery and exploitation of oil in the North Sea has made it a net exporter of the substance . |
| 26 | This absorption gives the spectacular deep blue that has made it a popular material for ornaments since the Middle Ages . |
| 27 | Since the formation of the first such combine in 1968 , comprising six units of production with a total of around 6,000 individual members , the Mondragon planners have made it a recommended practice to group individual cooperatives into such units . |
| 28 | Austria 's central location has made it a natural corridor for East-West trade for many years . |
| 29 | This has been the practice in many countries internationally , but our sudden realisation of its effectiveness in creating bilingualism has made it the major discovery in language acquisition . |
| 30 | All of that suggests that the sheep industry is poised to make the most of the structural accident that has made it the biggest producer of lamb in the Northern Hemisphere . |