Example sentences of "it [verb] the [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near Marston Doles the route turned south , past Priors Hardwick , Upper and Lower Boddington to Aston-le-Wall , near which it crosses the Banbury-Daventry road . |
| 2 | Continue down the short valley of Mosedale to the road , which you follow eastwards until it crosses the River Duddon ( 1.75 ) . |
| 3 | The IMF said in its April 1991 forecast that it expected the US economy to shrink by 0.1 per cent in 1991 , before making a full recovery to 2.8 per cent growth in 1992 . |
| 4 | Fine china maker Wedgwood is to shed 160 jobs when it shuts the Johnson Brothers ' Hanley Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 5 | Under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act , it asked the US President to sanction retaliation if Thailand kept its doors closed . |
| 6 | Until the 1820s it rose and fell over a succession of steep hills and deep valleys but when it became the London–Holyhead road sections were totally rebuilt by Thomas Telford . |
| 7 | The championship renamed yet again in 1986 when it became The Sports-Prototype World Championship , for both drivers and teams . |
| 8 | It became the Winston Cup in 1970 following sponsorship by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company . |
| 9 | In later years , it became the Stroud Piano Company and later Bentley Pianos . |
| 10 | He was president of the Newcastle Chemical Society ( 1871–2 ) and a vice-president until 1882 , when it became the Newcastle section of the Society of Chemical Industry , in which he continued to take an active interest . |
| 11 | It provided the leadership in February , it succeeded in opening the eyes of the more backward sections of the proletariat and the working masses to the reactionary nature of the petty-bourgeois and liberal parties , it welded the proletariat into an invincible revolutionary force and , drawing the poor peasants into alliance with them , it led the October revolution . |
| 12 | She laughed at the one from Myra ; it depicted the Gemini star sign — twins , one laughing , one thoughtful . |
| 13 | When the European Parliament 's regional policy committee last carried out a study in Northern Ireland it produced the Martin report , which resulted in £63m for housing , he added . |
| 14 | So it made the Stenness Loch polluted for the as pollution comes in the Stenness Loch and it f spoilt the fishing here . |
| 15 | Again , the TUC General Council made the same accusation when it met the Beveridge Committee seventeen years later : F.H . |
| 16 | The incident first attracted national attention because it involved the Kennedy family , a subject which tended to elicit fiercely polarized views . |
| 17 | It provided the West Bank mayors and notables with financial disbursements and economic favours . |
| 18 | TV missed the end of Empire , except for little bits like the Argyll Highlanders ' steamy evacuation from Aden in 1967 , but it caught the Vietnam War , the Nigerian Civil War , and so much as it was permitted in the Falklands . |
| 19 | Iraq seems in no hurry to repay the billions of dollars it owes the Gulf Arabs for money received during the war ; and the Gulf Arabs seem in no hurry to ask . |
| 20 | On the evidence I have heard , it is reasonably clear that the old naval dockyard generated comparatively little heavy goods vehicle traffic and in the main it used the Pembroke Gate entrance . |
| 21 | It has the Army ( active and retired ) , it has a particularly high proportion of prisoners and pensioners , and it has the Cerne Giant . |
| 22 | Later Macmillan was reputed to have defended his decision in a sentence which is likely to be authentic because it has the Macmillan ring : ‘ I thought we had had enough of Martha and it was time for some Mary. , |
| 23 | Megadeth 's fifth and finest LP , ‘ Countdown To Extinction ’ slammed its way straight into the upper reaches of LP charts all over the globe ( it entered the US chart at a staggering No. 2 ! ) and its first single , Symphony Of Destruction , was such a hit in the UK that a Top Of The Pops appearance was simply unavoidable . |
| 24 | It beat the Sheffield Morning Telegraph but Hollywood was far from New York and Greenwich Village . |
| 25 | The old course and the new can be seen particularly between Hawkesbury Lock , where it joins the Coventry canal , and Hillmorton near Rugby . |
| 26 | Starting at 10pm , it features the River Detectives , Urban Sax , Tommy Smith , Hue and Cry , Robbie Coltrane , Runrig , Aly Bain , Lulu and many others . |
| 27 | He could not see its full extent from where he stood , but knew that it filled the Ch'ang Chiang basin , eight hundred li south to the mountains , a thousand li east to west . |
| 28 | It uses the Iris GL 4.0 graphics library , claimed to be five times faster than Sun 's XGL library . |
| 29 | It spawned the Bladud tale , it made Francis Peck subtitle his Antiquarian Annals of Stanford of 1727 Academia Tercia Anglicana , or ‘ The Third English University ’ , and it fuelled the fertile minds of William Stukeley and later Victorian romantics . |
| 30 | Despite this , BCAR have an Auster V operational from Old Sarum airfield , Wilts , with plans for it to visit the D-Day beaches in 1994 during the 50th anniversary celebrations . |