Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It horrified the Council 's more conservative wing for , despite all protestations that it was complementary to and not contradictory of Vatican I 's teaching on papal primacy , it did inevitably suggest a remarkably different overall understanding of how the Church should be governed . |
| 2 | Thoth interrupted his stream of self-justification with the sentiment that it agreed the eigen state theory was possible and then humorously pointed out that simply because Ewan had thought of it , it was infinitely more possible . |
| 3 | It applied the methods of Kent campus to imaginary grievances in a divided , or divisible , community in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | The one of the Dallachy Strike Wing ( FP November , p29 ) has been less publicised than its counterpart at Banff to the south , perhaps because it operated the Beaufighter rather than the more glamorous Mosquito . |
| 5 | Last month it doubled the speed of its 486 chip and later this year the company is expected to introduce the next generation processor , the 586 . |
| 6 | It doubled the number of passengers it carries to 1.65m . |
| 7 | Atari is now Nintendo 's arch-rival , but 10 years ago , it owned the video games market . |
| 8 | The Board claimed that it owned the land by virtue of a private Act of Parliament , the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 9 | In 1980 , mining operations threatened the fabric of the house and British Coal , calculating it would be cheaper to cope with subsidence problems if it owned the house itself , acquired the property . |
| 10 | Regent International Hotels , which was recently acquired by Four Seasons , has returned to London — where it owned the Dorchester for a short while — to open the 309-room , Regent Hotel , Marylebone . |
| 11 | Someone said it owned the airline and was the government . |
| 12 | Jim looked over and smiled as his daughter made rather ungainly attempts to emulate the lively young girls above her , but then as he watched he became slightly concerned , because her movements became even more ungainly and then spasmodic , and then jerky until her head was nodding , her legs shooting out in a frenzy , her arms twitching , and she fell , uttering a loud cry , which was so strong and unreal , that it stilled the noise of the bagpipes and everyone looked to see what was happening . |
| 13 | It shared the fate with many others of its kind , and was one of the suppressed chantries in the reign of Edward VI and the lands and revenues with which it was endowed coming to the crown were , in the first year of Queen Mary , let to the family of Levesons of Whornes Place . |
| 14 | It shared the view of the Policy Advisory Committee that ‘ the primary aim of the law against incest is the protection of the young and vulnerable against sexual exploitation within the family and rejected the idea that eugenics was the law 's principal justification . |
| 15 | In practice this was done by a compromise , the thin skin being stiffened by attaching to it spars and stringers , with which it shared the load , the whole rather elaborate surface forming a shell stiff in bending and therefore unlikely to buckle . |
| 16 | He used to say it polluted the environment . |
| 17 | The Institute indicated when it commissioned the report that it would make every effort to adopt its proposals wherever possible , and has already agreed on action in a number of areas . |
| 18 | The cat turned and looked at them , and it pawed the air . |
| 19 | It checked the animal , then said to the robot , ‘ Make it warm . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ He won enough to set himself up in his own business , so if you see a ‘ Terimon Cafe ’ on the outskirts of London you 'll know how it got the name . ’ |
| 21 | And , and how it got the name Hole , was there 's supposed to be gold buried somewhere up there , but what quantity or anything about it I can not tell you . |
| 22 | Casein was nearly foolproof in application , of excellent strength both wet and dry , but rotted catastrophically when it got the chance . |
| 23 | Given these provocations , it is not surprising that Congress , when it got the chance , should strike back against the executive . |
| 24 | For example , one of the galleries might want the Picasso if it also gets the Cezanne but not the Turner ; but it would not insist on the Picasso if it got the Turner ; but would want both if it did not get the Cezanne . |
| 25 | ‘ It got the bullying over with quicker . |
| 26 | It got the go-ahead for the congestive heart-failure treatment by US authorities earlier this year . |
| 27 | Because that was er you know I mean it got the group together |
| 28 | As far as he was concerned , the loss of all personnel in the field with the exception of Bronson Manolo could be classed as an acceptable casualty rate if it got the job done . |
| 29 | The man that was the best at it got the job . |
| 30 | The money was as shadowily outlined as the permission , but , like the EFR agreement itself , it revealed the government 's unwillingness to relinquish once and for all its place in the search for inexhaustible energy . |