Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1	‘ 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 .
2	She collected some of his saliva from the ground and used it make a serpent .
3	To achieve this Lazarsfeld borrowed a notion from mathematics and logic , that of the variable , and used it to create a way of thinking about social science in both its theoretical and empirical aspects .
4	We produced an attractive new leaflet and used it to launch a recruitment campaign .
5	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 ’ .
6	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 .
7	I went to the shed , got the kite , walked a way along the dunes and assembled it battered a tent-peg into the ground , tied the nylon tcJ it , then flew the kite on a short string for a while .
8	A BOMB disposal squad was called to blow up a suspect suitcase at Whitby railway station at the weekend — and discovered it contained a cornet and sheet music .
9	Then she ruffled the parakeet 's crest and watched it peck a sunflower seed .
10	When it gurgled and died it left a silence deeper than before .
11	When Bill and Jenny bought it in 1977 , it was in need of a lot of tender loving care — today , much restored and refurbished it has a wealth of beams , stripped pine and attractive brick fireplaces .
12	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 .
13	He went into her family history and said it explained a lot .
14	Uproar , laughter , lots of silly grins and had it set a trend ?

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