Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Indies , for their part , are simply playing their own game and , since it has made them the most powerful team in the world , can not see why they should deprive themselves of their trump cards just because other countries can not produce trump cards of their own . |
| 2 | But I would hope , I mean it has given me the the wish to go on living in a similar kind of situation . |
| 3 | Sarah , 27 , was attempting her first marathon , but admits it has given her the ‘ bug ’ . |
| 4 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
| 5 | He collects it from the door when it arrives to spare her the embarrassment of being seen by the boy . |
| 6 | One of the grotesque provisions it contained gave him the ‘ right ’ ( on whose authority — God Almighty 's ? ) to terminate his own life if he found his state unbearable . |
| 7 | It did award her the prestigious Hughes medal in 1906 , the first medal awarded to a woman by the Royal Society . |
| 8 | Johnny was surely the " Billy Bishop Canadian " of World War 2 : only the war ending when it did denied him the highest award . |
| 9 | wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all . |
| 10 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 11 | Anna had explained , and it had given her the opportunity to describe details her daughter found miraculous . |
| 12 | He had held on to her hand as her flight was called , and it had given her the way out without tears . |
| 13 | With the usual lack of euphemism , the overseers enter the rubric ‘ Dead ’ against her name at the beginning of 1786 ; their accounts for 10 January indicate that it had cost them the grand sum of 3s. 9d. to bury three paupers : ‘ West Wife ; Titford and Robbans ’ . |
| 14 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 15 | It does give them the opportunity to provide the facilities , and on top of that on top of classification we now have grading , where every aspect of that hotel 's operation is examined and inspected and they are giving erm the classification as well as the grading , which could be highly commended or commended , and to give you some idea , out of the hotels in this region , you know , very , very few so far have reached the highly commended accolade , and those that do are well worth it , you know . |
| 16 | Brian Smart , executive director of the British Franchise Association , adds : ‘ Franchising is not a guarantee of success , but it does give you the option of joining a business whose worth has already been proved . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It does worry me the longer it goes on without one . |
| 18 | It 's turned it the other way round . |
| 19 | It 's given me the chance to look further into two books that I 've really enjoyed reading than I ever usually would . |
| 20 | We should n't forget either though that we already have a Social Chapter from the ni nineteen eighty seven Act , it 's not to be sniffed at , it 's given us the directive on the protection of pregnant women at work . |
| 21 | It 's lent me the black one now . |