Example sentences of "[vb past] it [conj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also offended cost-conscious UN bureaucrats by purchasing a large mansion in Windhoek ; a spokesman in New York described it as showing a ‘ lack of judgement ’ . |
| 2 | Mortensen described it as having a hooked tip and identified his specimens as A. palmeri , type locality : Key Biscayne , Florida because that species has a prominent hook on the second arm spine . |
| 3 | The traditional story is that Edison sketched out the idea to his mechanic John Kruesi , who built it and bet a box of cigars it would not work . |
| 4 | Intel told it that running a current SCO binary on Pentium would win it only twice the performance of SCO Unix on the 80486 , compared with a fourfold increase it could expect with code recompiled for Pentium , although it would mean giving up on backwards compatibility . |
| 5 | One man who booked a Rolls Royce and two Mercedes with the company last July said : ‘ We booked it and paid a £120 deposit and then found out later that things were not right . |
| 6 | He does not wish to be named but said : ‘ We booked it and paid a £120 deposit and then found out later that things were not right . |
| 7 | Sometimes , especially in Romantic music , I tell the orchestra , ‘ Now play everything as you played it but play a 4/4 bar . |
| 8 | Edward lifted it and splashed a little water into the teapot , swirling it around . |
| 9 | He opened it and chose a sentence at random . |
| 10 | She took a cigar box from a cupboard , opened it and displayed a number of sticks of greasepaint . |
| 11 | The referee retrieved it and ordered a bully-off . |
| 12 | He signed it and added a subscription . |
| 13 | so they they pinched it and got a buyer out there ! |
| 14 | It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt . |
| 15 | He suggests that although manufacturers had an instrumental influence in supporting this act — it helped to rationalize and make predictable the conduct of competitors — they also saw it as having a symbolic dimension , which if anything , was predominant in their minds . |
| 16 | Others saw it as marking a shift in US perceptions of the OAS and a readiness to see it perform a new role in encouraging the closer economic and political integration of the hemisphere , in line with the US " Enterprise for the Americas " free trade policy [ see pp. 37651-52 ; 37914 ] . |
| 17 | I was shaking by the time I got the thing to the Bunker , nearly frightening myself to death with my paranoid imaginings , but I prevailed ; I took the filthy skull there and I cleaned it and stuck a candle in it and I surrounded it with heavy magic , important things , and got back cold and wet to my warm little bed safely . |
| 18 | When I finally sold it and acquired a respectable saloon , some of the excitement went out of motoring . |
| 19 | Antiques expert Guy Schwinge spotted it while valuing a house at Dorchester , Dorset . |
| 20 | When Mr Barker heard that Christopher Martin-Jenkins had said in his radio commentary that ‘ a very good umpire cracked under pressure ’ he denied it and issued a writ against Martin-Jenkins for defamation . |
| 21 | Once he kicked it and broke a picture . |
| 22 | A constable brought Wycliffe 's coffee ; he sipped it and made a wry face . |
| 23 | He picked up a gin and tonic from the same tray where Belinda had found hers , sipped it and made a face . |
| 24 | She sipped it and made a face . |
| 25 | Barratt considered it as having a very promising appearance ; " a large champion lode " , he reported to Taylor . |