Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [vb pp] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith said : ‘ If a wave had caught it it would have smashed the craft to pieces . |
| 2 | And as a result has awarded it top marks and a prestigious regional Quality Brickwork Award . |
| 3 | A diver had found it out at sea trapped beneath the underground storage container from a petrol station , the container having been ripped right out of the ground . |
| 4 | A roughly made small felt dog which I do n't recognise , it looks as though a child has made it . |
| 5 | A COUNCIL has admitted it blundered by sending a former employee a letter claiming magistrates had granted it a liability order over alleged non-payment of poll tax . |
| 6 | It was a huge house , too big to survive as a single occupied unit ; a developer had stripped it out and done a thorough conversion to make it into four self-contained apartments with only the hall and stairs common to each . |
| 7 | Immediately she thought guiltily that if Betty had not been such a nice girl she would now remark acidly that a weasel had got it . |
| 8 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 9 | But probably a guard had spotted it and it was right now sitting in some staff-room in Queen Street station , or Gallanach . |
| 10 | It is a trick that might just save the life of the bird if a cat has caught it and then placed it on the ground for a moment before starting to pluck it . |
| 11 | Eyewitness Terry Shaylor , 19 , an assistant at nearby Polkyth News , said the area ‘ looks as though a bomb has hit it ’ . |
| 12 | It looks like a bomb has hit it here |
| 13 | Simon pulled himself up inside the kiosk : ‘ It looks like a bomb 's hit it ! — Is that the cash-box over there ? |
| 14 | This kitchen looks like a bomb 's hit it . |
| 15 | But its uniqueness , its disturbing habit of making immediate and concrete things which are best revered from a distance has laid it open to charges of ‘ magic ’ or ‘ blasphemy ’ or ‘ sacrilege ’ or ‘ obscenity ’ . |
| 16 | A friend has described it as worth putting on weight for . |
| 17 | The time that this timetable motion provides for the Committee stage will be ample for consideration of the issues that the House as a whole has shown it wishes to raise . |
| 18 | He considers a trust in favour of the family fideicommissum familiae relictum ) : a settlor has established it ; a member of the family is benefiting from it , but he is at the same time bound by the trust to hand on the property on death to a further member of the family . |
| 19 | The adrenalin of going to a Court had kept it at bay so far but now I could feel the walls closing in again . |
| 20 | Thousands of travellers are expected at the event , even though a court has refused it a music licence . |
| 21 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 22 | ‘ Helping others get a start has made it all worthwhile , ’ he added . |
| 23 | So once a crystal gets started it grows , each layer being the same as the layer below . |
| 24 | Turns round and looks as if a bus had hit it . |
| 25 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 26 | But Basil got summonsed for wounding — an inspector in a tram-car had seen it and went and gave evidence against him . |
| 27 | Perhaps a bird had carried it down , as the dove had borne the olive branch . |
| 28 | A passer-by had heard it squawk : ‘ I live at No 7 Strawberry Close , Nailsea , got that ? ’ |
| 29 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |
| 30 | But if a solicitor had made it and put three halves we could take an action against that solicitor or the executor could to erm for the costs of going to court to find out what on earth the will meant . |