Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It allowed workers the opportunity to buy as much as 20 per cent of their company 's shares at half price as well as offering them low-interest loans for buying future shares once a stock market was established .
2 As it cut jobs the company was hit by strikes , in 1986 and 1989 .
3 Geoffrey Martel had perceived the propaganda potential of public war as early as the mid eleventh century ; later it enabled Henry the Liberal of Champagne to claim the military service of all lords within his county , a reapplication of the Carolingian ban .
4 For size and splendour Wanstead was excelled only by Versailles in the 1660s , and it earned London the sobriquet of the English Le Nôtre .
5 It gave Scarlet the impression that she had grown very old and from now on might just as well go round in her shroud .
6 It gave Patrick the feeling that their every move had been planned for them by Comrade Ceauŝescu himself .
7 It gave governors the responsibility for determining sex education policy in the school , and preventing ‘ political indoctrination ’ .
8 More important , it gave Mexico the breathing space it needed to tempt back flight capital and boost GDP growth .
9 The deliberate cruelty of it gave Theda the strength she needed .
10 As it left Sarajevo the pilot realised that hostile gunners had ‘ locked-on ’ to the plane .
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