Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] it [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | All were matted with puffs of trees ; the bright thread of a waterfall was laid over one , a snail 's silver trail ; and one was crossed by a great rift that made it appear a giant 's helter-skelter . |
| 2 | Believing this to be the case , Roshanara stole the Imperial seal and used it to forge an order that proclaimed Aurangzeb 's nine-year-old youngest son to be the next Emperor in preference to the rightful heir . |
| 3 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has persuaded the Gould Inc subsidiary of Nikko Kyodo Co Inc — which wanted to be shot of Encore altogether when it bought Gould , but has had to keep the company in the fold and bankroll it to have a chance of realising any value from it — to increase its revolving credit facility by $20m ; the pact also extends the maturity dates of Encore 's $50m term loan agreement to April 2 1995 , and the $35m increased revolving credit pact to July 3 1994 . |
| 4 | On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles . |
| 5 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 6 | These right-angled bends in the road , whatever the date of the enclosure award may be , reflect some stage in the medieval colonisation of the parish when a new furlong , brought in from the waste perhaps in the twelfth or the thirteenth century , cut across the direct path to the next village and forced it to make a sudden turn for a few yards before resuming its onward course . |
| 7 | Make the pastry and use it to line a 10-inch shallow fluted flan tin . |
| 8 | Although languages differ in the extent to which they regularly specify the gender of human referents ( cf. English they and French ils/elles ) , we all readily recognize the distinction and expect it to reflect a genuine aspect of experience . |
| 9 | When Mrs Chamberlin had gone , hurrying into the gloomy February afternoon , her oatmeal figure bent resolutely against the wind , Alexandra looked round the drawing-room and saw it had an animated , unsettled look , as if the last caller had stirred everything to action , all the silver photograph frames , the vases and pin-cushions , the rugs and cushions and shaded lamps . |
| 10 | To take this initiative and extend it to include a range of interests which they can use , whether or not they are employed in the future , might help them to be on a more equal footing with their peers who have not been in public care . |
| 11 | In 1990 , he was charged with applying for a copy of a birth certificate in that name and using it to make a fraudulent passport application . |
| 12 | When David overcame the Ammonites , we are told ‘ he took the crown of the king off his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold and there were priceless stones in it ; and it was set on David 's head ’ . |
| 13 | One starts off with a syndrome and uses it to develop a theory of normal processing . |
| 14 | The German researchers took a crystal of tungsten diselenide and cleaved it to expose a layer of tungsten atoms which are arranged in a triangular pattern . |
| 15 | She collected some of his saliva from the ground and used it make a serpent . |
| 16 | We produced an attractive new leaflet and used it to launch a recruitment campaign . |
| 17 | Superpower Arms Control : How does China view this arms control and does it perceive a role for third powers ? |
| 18 | Mr Corman has shot the whole thing in colour and in a cinema-verité style that makes it resemble a documentary . ’ |
| 19 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 20 | A spark of hope was rekindled in him , as his eye traced the faint line and saw it formed a two-foot square . |
| 21 | He went into her family history and said it explained a lot . |
| 22 | He picked up the bird and noticed it had a ring on its leg , so he wrote down the number and passed the information on to me . |
| 23 | Then she ruffled the parakeet 's crest and watched it peck a sunflower seed . |
| 24 | ‘ It looks as if they were interrupted at their meal , ’ he remarked , righting the overturned stool and using it to indicate a soiled trencher and several dusty earthenware mugs on the table . |
| 25 | Catt accepts that it was only a minor detail in her boyfriend 's sacking but feels it has a relevance . |
| 26 | Where illness leads to loss of sight , speech or hearing it diminishes an individual 's ability to make use of counselling assistance . |
| 27 | Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies . |
| 28 | The advantage of a body clock is that it can prepare an animal or plant and enable it to predict a future environmental condition and so be ready for the event when it takes place . |