Example sentences of "have [verb] it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Microsoft has given it the thumbs up for Windows NT . |
| 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 | It is a handsome plant , one of the tallest of the umbelliferous herbs , with a strong distinctive , celery-like flavour which has earned it the name of the " Maggi " herb in Italy . |
| 4 | Birmingham 's lively musical scene has won it the title ‘ UK City of Music 1992 ’ in the Arts Council 's Arts 2000 scheme linking a different city or region with a particular art form each year to the year 2000 . |
| 5 | Birmingham 's lively and varied musical scene has won it the title ‘ UK City of Music 1992 . ’ |
| 6 | It has done it the old-fashioned way , with teamwork , better quality and new models that appeal to its customers . |
| 7 | A sense of something old , strange and eerie came over me as we passed directly below Benbulbin , that strange grey-green mountain , chief link in the chain that guarded Ulster and has made it the most separate of Irish provinces from the beginning of time . |
| 8 | In per capita terms , Venezuela 's long history as an oil exporter — between 1929 and 1969 it was the world 's leading exporter — has made it the richest country in South America . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The sheer scale of the service sector has made it the focus for attack by the proponents of the de-industrialisation thesis . |
| 11 | That was my first impression of a city whose disastrous birth rate has made it the largest in the world , a vast expanse of concentrated housing broken only by open spaces of baked earth where the wind-blown dust swirled , and far away to port the snow-capped volcanic hulks of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl towering huge through the burnt brown atmosphere . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Eliot told me that if he misses his tea he is no good for anything until he has had it the following day . ’ |
| 14 | The American golf historian Herb Warren Wind has called it the greatest bunker shot in all championship play . |
| 15 | Job cuts are almost certain to follow and a former Dowty director has called it the worst day of his life . |
| 16 | In this case , cerebral development has denied it the automatic response while defective social development has denied it the opportunity of learning the skill it lacks . |
| 17 | In this case , cerebral development has denied it the automatic response while defective social development has denied it the opportunity of learning the skill it lacks . |
| 18 | Why could n't they 've made it the Soton game ? ? |
| 19 | He 'd noticed it the night before . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 22 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 23 | In the suspended moment Jess saw a long strand of cobweb stretching from window to floor , flecks of dust spinning in a shaft of sunlight , her petticoat in a ball against a pile of hay , the filthy shirt on the nail where she 'd hung it the night before . |
| 24 | The owner before Uncle Titch had been a retired seaman and he 'd renamed it the Turk 's Head , not after an Ottoman warrior , as most people thought , but after a special type of nautical knot that looked like a turban . |
| 25 | She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it . |
| 26 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 27 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 28 | Should have realised it the first time , but that 's what happens when you make assumptions . |
| 29 | I think you should have done it the other way . |
| 30 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |