Example sentences of "and it [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The Germans , too , began with tariffs more favourable to farming than industry , and it took the McKinley tariff in the U.S.A. and the enormous Russian protective duties to convert the German rulers to protection for their manufacturers .
2 Phillipps bought the two-volume monastic Bible from him and it acquired the Mill Hill number MS 2506 .
3 The Wester Ross Wilderness proposal , it appears , only objects to the centredness of certain kinds of humans ( mountain bikers , Monro-baggers , etc ) and it urges the CCS to recognise the crucial role of the local landowners as ‘ good stewards ’ of this region .
4 The meeting did start the healing process , and it gave the US an insight into the thinking behind the changes in British Defence policy towards which Macmillan was working .
5 This method of funding insulates Channel Four from direct pressures from advertisers in search of large audiences and it protects the ITV companies from a direct assault on their own sources of revenue .
6 It has the Army ( active and retired ) , it has a particularly high proportion of prisoners and pensioners , and it has the Cerne Giant .
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